I have always like Caliburn Micro since I started using few years back. Of course had the opportunity to use it at work as well and that made it more likeable. But at the same time, I am not a huge fan of one of the latest changes that happened in v4.0, even though I … Continue reading Caliburn Micro 4.0 – Issue with EventAggregator
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Single View for Multiple ViewModels in Caliburn Micro
One of the recent questions I saw in Stackoverflow involved a scenario wherein, the developer had to reuse the same View for different ViewModels. In his case, the ViewModels where subtypes of same BaseViewModel and hence it made sense to reuse the View. For example, Consider the following public class TempatureViewModel:VariableViewModel{} public class PressureViewModel:VariableViewModel{} public class HumidityViewModel:VariableViewModel{} … Continue reading Single View for Multiple ViewModels in Caliburn Micro
Event Aggregator
Even though Event Aggregator could be termed as one of the lesser known patterns, the useful of the pattern cannot be ignored. In fact, it makes me wonder why it is lesser known. Let us recap the observer pattern. One of the problems with observer pattern is that it could grow out of hand when … Continue reading Event Aggregator
View Model First Approach using Caliburn Micro
While it is possible to use both View Model First and View First approach while using Caliburn Micro, I personally feel one should stick to one single appraoch thoughout your application. Mixing the two approaches would impact the readability of code adversely. View Model First Approach In this post we will look at the ViewModel … Continue reading View Model First Approach using Caliburn Micro
MahApps HamburgerMenu and Caliburn Micro
MahApps is probably one of the most used UI library among WPF developers, with a galaxy of great controls. Despite that, recently I was surprised to see lack of proper example for Hamburger Menu control, particulary MVVM based. I was also more keen to know how to make best use of capabilities of Caliburn Micro along the … Continue reading MahApps HamburgerMenu and Caliburn Micro
Caliburn.Micro Template Pack now supports VS 2019
So glad to announce that Caliburn.Micro Template Pack now supports Visual Studio 2019. Caliburn.Micro Template Pack for WPF contains a comprehensive collection of Project Templates and Code Snippets for developing WPF application using Caliburn.Micro. It also includes Bootstrap templates for SimpleContainer, MEF and Unity. You can download the template from Visual Studio Marketplace You can … Continue reading Caliburn.Micro Template Pack now supports VS 2019
Caliburn.Micro #008: Gesture Recognition using Short-Hand Syntax
In this part of Caliburn.Micro tutorials we would explore how to configure and use Gesture Recognition with Caliburn.Micro, particularly exploiting the Short-Hand syntax for Actions. Caliburn.Micro doesn't support this out of the box, so obviously we need to work around the Actions to provide support for Gestures. Let's first formulate the syntax of how we … Continue reading Caliburn.Micro #008: Gesture Recognition using Short-Hand Syntax
Verifying if View Exists for specified ViewModel
There might raise situations in your Project where you might be interested to check if the ViewModel specified has a corresponding View defined and gradefully handle the error, than throwing an exception. Caliburn Micro's ViewLocator class provides you methods that enables you to do exactly that.
Caliburn.Micro #007 : Bootstrapper with Unity
Unity is one of the most commonly used IOC containers used by developers, and it would be unfair if I don't include it as a part of the Caliburn.Micro WPF Tutorials (Creating Bootstrappers). This particular post is dedicated to building bootstrapper for Caliburn.Micro application using Unity as the IoC Container. The key for creating Bootstrappers … Continue reading Caliburn.Micro #007 : Bootstrapper with Unity
Caliburn.Micro #006 : Event Aggregators & Window Managers
Consider the classic scenario when you need to show the currently logged in User Name in your main Window, once you have successfully logged in. The The login Window is supposed to be a Modal Dialog, and isn't remotely aware of the Label displaying Username in the Main Window. WPF handles Modal Dialogs and messaging … Continue reading Caliburn.Micro #006 : Event Aggregators & Window Managers
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