App.xaml file does not get parsed if my app does not set a StartupUri?

Question

Background: I\'m creating a WPF app using MVVM, and using a DI container to build my ViewModels

My App.xaml looks like this:

Answer 1

I've run into a similar/this same issue. There's a VS code generation bug where the code necessary to connect to the rest of the program sometimes is not inserted when contains only one entry and does not have a StartupUri attribute.

Details: http://bengribaudo.com/blog/2010/08/19/106/bug-single-application-resources-entry-ignored (disclaimer--link points to my blog)