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Today….All Your Wildest Dreams Come True

If you fit into any one (or more) of these three categories… You like tabletop RPGs You build Xaml applications You build Html/JS applications 1. RPGWithMe For some time I’ve been cranking away building my company’s first real product...

Published 08-02-2012 4:07 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, game development, Control Templates, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

The Manifold Blunders of Xaml–Part 1: Version and Platform Hell

I started work with “Xaml-based” platforms in the pre-Beta days of WPF, so I’ve been working with this technology longer than most. Back then I was utterly awed and inspired by it’s capabilities. Today I’m frustrated and...

Published 04-18-2012 11:43 AM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7

Boo-yah!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.3 RTW is Here

I’m extremely pleased to announce the release of Caliburn.Micro v1.3 . This is a great release with many bug fixes and several API improvements. We also support several new platforms. Here’s the highlights: Support for WP7 Mango Support for...

Published 01-20-2012 8:32 PM by Rob Eisenberg

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

Caliburn.Micro v1.1 RTW

Today I’m happy to announce the release of Caliburn.Micro v1.1 . You can get it on our project site or by using Nuget . We’ve had a number of bug fixes, general improvements and a few new features added. Here’s the highlights: For WP7...

Published 06-01-2011 1:08 PM by Rob Eisenberg

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

Two Caliburn Releases in One Day!

Today, I'm happy to make available the Release Candidates for both Caliburn 2.0 and Caliburn.Micro 1.0 ! The docs for both have been updated significantly, though they will continue to evolve over the coming months. Get em' while they're hot...

Published 02-21-2011 2:18 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, 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 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

Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 7

Today I worked on statements. They flow pretty naturally out of the sessions functionality. I still have a lot of work ahead of me, so fortunately I only found two new issues today. I was able to rework Xaml in both cases fairly easily. Binding in it’s...

Published 04-06-2010 10:21 PM by Rob Eisenberg

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

Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 6

I started working on the most complicated part of the UI: Sessions. There are a lot of different view models and views related to this part. Fortunately, by now, I think I have found most of the issues. But I’m still encountering a few new issues...

Published 04-05-2010 5:44 PM by Rob Eisenberg

Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, Control Templates, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, NHibernate, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, NHProf

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