After I released the MVVM Light installer, I got a note saying that parts of the installation failed on non-English systems (in that case a German installation of Expression Blend and Visual Studio). Specifically, what failed was the code snippets on Visual Studio, and the project and item templates in Expression Blend.
After investigating, it is correct that these two particular features of MVVM Light were installed to language-coded folders. Correcting the issue for Expression Blend was easy enough (Blend can also find project and item templates in the My Documents folder, under Expression\Blend 4\ItemTemplates and Expression\Blend 4\ProjectTemplates, which are language independent).
Unfortunately it was not that easy for code snippets, so eventually I had to resort to a few custom actions in the installer. How annoying that we cannot install code snippets to a language-neutral folder!!
Anyway, after a lot of efforts and even more testing, I published a new version which corrects the previous issues. So now I can happily resume my efforts on V4 beta 1 which is nearing completion, and which will also come with a neat installer 
Happy coding,
Laurent
Print | posted on Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:28 PM