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> and two “Page” view models...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 10-12-2010
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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 to leverage composition. The terms Screen, Screen...
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on 10-08-2010
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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 science , coroutines are program components...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 08-21-2010
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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. Here’s the Xaml: <UserControl x:Class...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 07-17-2010
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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 by configuring our application to use an IoC container...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 07-08-2010
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