caliburn.micro – Tarik Billa

Caliburn.Micro support for PasswordBox?

April 8, 2024 by Tarik

Here’s a much more simplified example, including a binding convention so that PasswordBox binding in Caliburn.Micro Just Works™: public static class PasswordBoxHelper { public static readonly DependencyProperty BoundPasswordProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(“BoundPassword”, typeof(string), typeof(PasswordBoxHelper), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(string.Empty, OnBoundPasswordChanged)); public static string GetBoundPassword(DependencyObject d) { var box = d as PasswordBox; if (box != null) { // this funny … Read more

Attach to multiple events with Caliburn.Micro

December 23, 2023 by Tarik

The delimiter for specifying multiple actions is a semicolon ; <Button Content=”Let’s Talk” cal:Message.Attach=”[Event MouseEnter] = [Action Talk(‘Hello’, Name.Text)]; [Event MouseLeave] = [Action Talk(‘Goodbye’, Name.Text)]” />

Autofac and Func factories

December 22, 2023 by Tarik

You are calling secVMFactory outside of your FirstViewModel constructor so by that time the ResolveOperation is disposed and in your factory method the c.Resolve will throw the exception. Luckily the exception message is very descriptive and telling you what to do: When registering components using lambdas, the IComponentContext ‘c’ parameter to the lambda cannot be … Read more

MVVM, Unity, Prism, MEF, Caliburn – What should I use?

September 17, 2023 by Tarik

If you want to build an MVVM application (which you probably do for various advantages), then you want an MVVM framework. I would recommend Caliburn.Micro, as it is straightforward to implement following the examples on the Caliburn.Micro documentation page. It also has a very compelling convention over configuration mechanism, and uses an Actions system to … Read more