How does StaticViewLocator work on the ViewLocator

[Rambolink94]

I am copying over some of the files from the MVVM sample. Everything works correctly, though I'm having issues with the ViewLocator. With the default MVVM ViewLocator, I can at least run the sample, though with issues. However, copying over the ViewLocator withing the Dock.MVVM sample, I have an issue with the [StaticViewLocator] attribute. It seems as though this gets generated at some point, though I'm not sure how, where, or when. Because of this, the s_views dictionary doesn't exist and I can no longer build my project.

Am I missing a step here?

[Rambolink94]

I found out that I needed to add:

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="StaticViewLocator">
      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
  </ItemGroup>

To my .csproj file. This solved the problem of the missing attribute.

My question now, however, is it expected for us to use this ViewLocator and add this extra stuff in our .csproj? What I mean, is this part of the expected workflow to start a Dock project?