Porting MVVM Light to .NET Standard - Lessons Learned

Explore the process of porting MVVM Light to .NET Standard in this 54-minute conference talk. Learn about the benefits of .NET Standard for creating portable assemblies and expanding to new platforms like Linux and Mac OS. Gain insights from Laurent Bugnion, creator of the MVVM Light Toolkit, as he shares his experiences and challenges in converting the framework. Discover the differences between portable class libraries and .NET Standard, and follow along with demonstrations of the porting process. Understand the implementation of services, building utilities, and publishing in the context of .NET Standard. Get practical tips and lessons learned from this real-world example of upgrading a popular open-source toolkit.

Introduction
Sharing code
Portable class libraries
Demo
What is NET Core
Linux Demo
MVVM Light
Demo of the port
GitHub
Open MVVM in Visual Studio
Building the Project
API Error
Not in NET Standard
Why did I do that
Lets create a project
Lets implement the service
Building the utility
Registering the service
Publishing the service