A super light-weight view model locator for Xamarin.Forms applications

• Install nuget package(Xam.ViewModelLocator) into your .Net Standard or PCL project
• Import name space in the view file and set the AutoWireViewModelProperty to true

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:d="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms/design"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
             mc:Ignorable="d"
             xmlns:viewModelLocator="clr-namespace:XamarinViewModelLocator;assembly=XamarinViewModelLocator"
             viewModelLocator:ViewModelLocator.AutoWireViewModel="True"
             x:Class="TestApp.Views.MainPage">
 </ContentPage>

That's all...

• View Name can be anything
• View Model's name must be ViewName+"ViewModel". e.g View's Name = MainPage, ViewModel's Name = MainPageViewModel
• Soon this convention can be changed

By convention it will look for the view in a "Views" folder/namespace and the view model in a "ViewModels" folder/namespace. This convention can be changed by passing a config file to the viewModel object on start up.

ViewModelLocator.Config = new Configuration().SetFolderNames("NewViewsFolderName", "NewViewModelsFolderName");

• If the view model has a parameterless constructor. It is used to create the object.
• If the view model has dependencies, then the view model and it's dependencies will be resolved from a given container refrence.
• Container refrence can be supplied by chaining a new method to the configuration object.

ViewModelLocator.Config = new Configuration().SetFolderNames("NewViewsFolderName", "NewViewModelsFolderName")
                                             .SetContainer(_containerRefrenceObject);

Note: Only chain the methods you need.

• AutoFac
• Unity

• Create a Fork from this repository.
• Clone your fork into your work station.
• Switch to the development branch.
• Make your changes on the development branch.
• Push your changes to your fork.
• Create a pull request back to the main repository.
• Add a new remote called upstream to point to the main repository.