caliburn.micro

I'm using Castle-Windsor as my container in a Caliburn-Micro Silverlight app. My ViewModel objects are reasonably chunky as they call WCF services and a bunch of other stuff. Therefore, when a window is closed I want to call container.Release(viewModel) so Castle can manage the whole decommission/disposal process, respecting the various lifecycles configured (as outlined in this post ). In my AppBootstrapper I have overridden GetInstance as follows: protected override object GetInstance(Type serviceType, string key) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(key)) return container.Resolve(serviceType); return

I am using Entity Framework and Caliburn.Micro to implement an MVVM application. Basically, I have set up AuthorModel and BookModel in a one to many relationship - an Author having multiple Books and a Book having only a single Author. I have a SelectBookWindow where I use DbContext to load ObservableCollection<Book> , from where I select a Book I want to view/edit. I then pass the selected Book as a parameter to an EditBookWindow where I have a combobox enumerating all the Authors but with the current Author selected. In here, I load up ObservableCollection<Author> using a different instance

In Caliburn.Micro documentation the authors mention such possibility: documentation link IHandle inherits from a marker interface IHandle. This allows the use of casting to determine if an object instance subscribes to any events. This enables simple auto-subscribing if you integrate with an IoC container. Most IoC containers (including the SimpleContainer) provide a hook for being called when a new instance is created. Simply wire for your container’s callback, inspect the instance being created to see if it implement IHandle, and if it does, call Subscribe on the event aggregator. How is it

The Caliburn.Micro home page at http://caliburnmicro.com makes the below claim but I am unable to make CM work with a PasswordBox control using any variation I can think of from that example. Don't see how this would work anyway since the names are not the same case. Does anyone have a CM example that does allow me to get the value of the PasswordBox? Is there a particular version of CM required? I'm running version 1.5.2 of CM. Ideally w/o using Attached Properties but if can work with CM and the only way then fine. Please no lectures on security issues as that is not an issue in my case.

I am having a hard time getting multiple views to work against 1 viewmodel. I have read Naming Convention for Multi-View Support without getting much out of it, and have tried countless things in the process. Just to take a simple example. Say I have a ViewModel for People residing in ShellViewModel, which basically contains a list of Person-objects. I want to display them in two different ways in my application. What is the correct way to name the Views in this case, and how do I display both views in ShellView? Anders is correct, there are a number of default conventions for Caliburn.Micro ,

How can I get Caliburn.Micro to map a key gesture to an action method on my ViewModel? For example, I want to implement a tabbed interface, and I want my ShellViewModel to have a NewTab method, which the user should to be able to invoke by pressing Ctrl+T on the keyboard. I know that the full Caliburn framework has support for gestures, but how can I do this using Caliburn.Micro? Is there perhaps some way to bind an action to a RoutedCommand (since RoutedCommands already support input gestures)? Or some other way to get gesture support? You can do it by deriving from System.Windows

I'm trying to get a context menu within a ListBox ItemTemplate to call a method on the parent view model, passing in the item that was clicked on as a parameter. I have this working for other buttons in the item template, but for the context menu it seems to be failing. I have the following xaml (abbreviated for clarity): <ListBox> <ListBox.GroupStyle> <GroupStyle> ... </GroupStyle> </ListBox.GroupStyle> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Grid> <Grid.ContextMenu> <ContextMenu Name="cm"> <MenuItem Header="Open" cal:Message.Attach="Open($dataContext)"> </MenuItem> </Grid.ContextMenu>