This is 'my' canonical example for a WPF solution based on an MMVM approach using IoC, logging, and asynchronous invocations. All external

Thrid party libraries are resolved using NuGet.

The idea is to prevent me from re-creating the scaffolding\infrastructure for any future WPF apps, the following are included:

MVVM - implmented as ViewModel first approach using strongly typed XAML DataTemplates,

IoC - implmented using Autofac, all services and key (major) ViewModels are resolved via the IoC container,

Logging - implemented using NLog, writes to file currently in the 'C:\temp' directory,

Async Support - implemented using Reactive Extensions,

Heartbeat - produces a regular heart beat for the application (currently writes to the log),

Idling - a service producing notifications when the dispatcher enters idle state,

Diagnostics - a service exposing the FPS, CPU and memory (managed & unmanaged) consumptions,

Duration - a service for measuring the time for a block of code (Debug mode only),

Gestures - a service for changing the system gestures (mouse) during the application, designed to be used with MVVM,