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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 sometimes outraged. As I’ve traveled to various...
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Rob Eisenberg
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04-18-2012
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Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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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 Silverlight 5 Basic MVVM Support for WinRT/Metro...
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Rob Eisenberg
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01-20-2012
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet, MVP
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When building applications it is very common to have a set of screens which are basically list/edit screens. And when having these list/edit screens it is also common to allow users to delete a row. In this post I am going to show how you can add a neat little UI wrinkle to your deleting...
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What Happened To Me I’d say that 2011 was a pretty good year for me as a .NET open source developer. After all, Caliburn.Micro had it’s first official release in April 2011 just in time for the Mix Open Source fest. At the festival, the framework had a great showing. I had tons of people...
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Rob Eisenberg
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01-04-2012
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Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet, MVP
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Today I was building a UI in Silverlight which needed a Data Grid and a Data Pager. When I setup my pager I had it bound to the various properties that I cared about (Source, PageIndex, PageSize, etc) via my ViewModel. However when I ran the page for the first time I received the error below...
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Today, I’m pleased to announce the RTW of Caliburn.Micro v1.2 . In this release we’ve had a number of bug fixes as well as a few incremental feature additions and refactorings. You can read the list of changes on the project site or get it as part of the download. Of course, v1.2 is now available...
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Rob Eisenberg
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07-30-2011
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet
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***** UPDATE ***** If you would like to see a video on this topic check out Episode 195 @ Dimecasts.Net ******************* When Windows Phone 7 was first announced one of its distinguishing features of the OS compared to the iPhone or the Android was its Live Tile concept. These live tiles allowed...
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***** UPDATE ***** If you would like to see a video on this topic check out Episode 194 @ Dimecasts.Net ******************* When building out a Silverlight application (or WPF application for that matter) the MVVM pattern is the pattern of choice for most projects I am aware of. When using MVVM...
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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 tombstoning, launcher/chooser support and strongly...
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Rob Eisenberg
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06-09-2011
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Filed under: Xaml, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, Tutorial, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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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 A new Tombstoning API based on ideas from Fluent...
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Rob Eisenberg
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06-01-2011
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7, NuGet
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In Caliburn.Micro we have a series of supporting services for building presentation tiers. Among them is the EventAggregator, a service which supports in-process publish/subscribe. There are various implementations of this pattern available in other frameworks, but I think you’ll find that Caliburn...
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If you are building a Windows Phone 7 application it is very likely that you are going to incorporate either the Panoramic or Pivot layouts in your app. In most cases when you are building these your panels/pivots are fairly static. However, what do you do when the number of panels/pivots needs to changed...
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I’m pretty excited about having NuGet support for Caliburn.Micro with the upcoming RTW. The work was spearheaded by Ryan Cromwell and I’ve been testing it and extending it for about a week. I thought I would take this opportunity to share a few things that Ryan put together in order to make...
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Recently my good friend and business partner, Christopher Bennage, made a decision to move his family to Redmond and take a job with Microsoft’s P&P team. A few people have been asking me what that means for Blue Spire. In short, I’m going to be focusing the company on what I know and...
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Rob Eisenberg
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04-07-2011
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Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7
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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!
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Rob Eisenberg
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02-21-2011
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, Caliburn Micro, WP7