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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Design time data

One of the most powerful features in XAML is design time data support. Let’s say that you have an application that displays some news retrieved from a RSS feed using a ListView or a GridView control. If you try to … Continue reading

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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Messages

When you’re developing an application using the MVVM pattern, one of the most common needs is to create a communication channel between two ViewModels or a ViewModel and a View: you need to exchange some data between the two actors, … Continue reading

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Porting a Windows Phone 8.0 application to Caliburn Micro 2.0

In my everyday job at Funambol I work on an application called OneMediaHub, which is the Windows Phone client for the cloud services offered by the company. The application is built using the MVVM pattern and Caliburn Micro as a … Continue reading

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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Navigation

Let’s continue our journey with Caliburn Micro and Universal Windows app. After talking about the project setup and binding and actions, let’s see how to manage navigation in a Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 app. The NavigationService Managing navigation is … Continue reading

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Using Caliburn Micro with Universal Windows app – Binding and actions

In the previous post we’ve learned how to properly set up Caliburn Micro in a Universal Windows app. In this post we’re going to recap all the most important naming conventions that can be used to connect our data to … Continue reading

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