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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Today, I’m proud to announce the v1.0 RTW of Caliburn.Micro for WPF, Silverlight and Window Phone 7 ! The idea was born last year at Mix10 after my Build Your Own MVVM Framework talk received overwhelmingly positive feedback. I want to give a big...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Many thanks to the Microsoft MVP program for providing the MSDN Subscriptions and to Jetbrains for providing us with several ReSharper licenses. Than you all for participating and congratulations to the winners! For those of you interested in learning...
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...
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...
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>...
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...
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