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Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 9–New WP7 Features

In version 1.0 we had pretty good support for building apps for WP7, but in v1.1 we’ve taken things up a notch. Let’s look at the same HelloWP7 sample that we did previously , but see how it’s been updated to take advantage of our improved...

Published 06-09-2011 1:23 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 7 - All About Conventions

One of the main features of Caliburn.Micro is manifest in its ability to remove the need for boiler plate code by acting on a series of conventions. Some people love conventions and some hate them. That’s why CM’s conventions are fully customizable...

Published 12-16-2010 3:49 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6d – A “Billy Hollis” Hybrid Shell

Up until now I’ve been focusing on fairly simple usage of Screens and Conductors. In this article, I want to show something a bit more sophisticated. This sample is based loosely on the ideas demonstrated by Billy Hollis in this well-known DNR TV...

Published 11-18-2010 4:36 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6c – Simple MDI with Screen Collections

Let’s look at another example: this time a simple MDI shell that uses “Screen Collections.” As you can see, once again, I have kept things pretty small and simple: Here’s a screenshot of the application when it’s running...

Published 10-19-2010 4:51 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6b – Simple Navigation with Conductors

Previously, we discussed the theory and basic APIs for Screens and Conductors in Caliburn.Micro. Now I would like to walk through the first of several samples. This particular sample demonstrates how to set up a simple navigation-style shell using Conductor<T>...

Published 10-12-2010 11:38 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6a – Screens, Conductors and Composition

Actions, Coroutines and Conventions tend to draw the most attention to Caliburn.Micro, but the Screens and Conductors piece is probably most important to understand if you want your UI to be engineered well. It’s particularly important if you want...

Published 10-08-2010 4:59 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 5 – IResult and Coroutines

Before our WP7 detour , we were deep in the thick of Actions . I mentioned that there was one more compelling feature of the Actions concept called Coroutines. If you haven’t heard that term before, here’s what wikipedia * has to say: In computer...

Published 08-21-2010 2:31 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, Tutorial, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 4 – Working with Windows Phone 7

Hopefully, previous articles have you up to speed on what Caliburn.Micro is , its basic configuration , and how to take advantage of a few of its features . In this part, I want to talk about some WP7 specifics issues. It’s unfortunate that I have...

Published 08-07-2010 10:42 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: Xaml, WPF/e, Featured, Silverlight, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 3 – All About Actions

We briefly introduced actions in Pt. 1 , but there is so much more to know. To begin our investigation, we’ll take our simple “Hello” example and see what it looks like when we explicitly create the actions rather than use conventions...

Published 07-17-2010 12:04 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 2 – Customizing The Bootstrapper

In the last part we discussed the most basic configuration for Caliburn.Micro and demonstrated a couple of simple features related to Actions and Conventions. In this part, I would like to explore the Bootstrapper class a little more. Let’s begin...

Published 07-08-2010 8:28 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 1 – Configuration, Actions and Conventions

In this tutorial we will learn a few of the basics of Caliburn.Micro . Let’s start by getting the framework. Head on over to http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets Either use Mercurial to clone the repo or click on the link...

Published 07-06-2010 1:47 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro

MVVM Study – Segue - Introducing Caliburn.Micro

When my “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” talk was chosen for Mix10, I put a temporary hold on this series of blog posts. I wanted to dedicate significant time to working on a sample framework and demo that would make a top notch Mix presentation...

Published 07-04-2010 4:45 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro

MVVM Study - Interlude

There’s a whole lot of talk these days about MVVM. It’s the “hep” thing and everyone wants in. There isn’t a single day lately where someone doesn’t post about this topic (and I read their post..I’ve tried really...

Published 05-01-2010 12:34 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, Flash, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture

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