Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm

I recently released a new open source project called simply UltraLight.mvvm. The purpose of this project is to make it easier to build MVVM-based applications that support tombstoning (a must) on Windows Phone 7. The DLL is 22KB and the source is less than 300 lines of code.
With that, the framework supports:
Commands
Command binding for buttons (with parameters)
Support for binding commands to application buttons on the application bar
Dialogs, both notification and confirmation
Messaging using the event aggregator publisher/subscriber model
Service location
Design-time friendly view models
Tombstone-friendly view models with control hooks for tombstone events
Decoupled navigation support from the view model
Decoupled visual state support from the view model
Notify property changed using expressions instead of magic strings
Dispatcher helper for UI thread access

Why not Jounce?

I think Jounce is overkill for the phone. Jounce specifically and explicitly relies on the Managed Extensibility Framework which is a phenomenal tool for building modular line of business applications for Silverlight. While the phone is Silverlight, and while there are certainly business applications on the phone, there are several reasons why I think it requires a completely different framework.

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