kmcginnes / Caliburn.Micro.Extras

Some additions to Caliburn.Micro framework.

Caliburn.Micro.Extras

Caliburn.Micro is a powerful framework for building WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows 8 Store apps. These additions make it easier to to get the most out of the framework.

Install

The extras are available through NuGet:

Install-Package Caliburn.Micro.Extras

Content

• ActionCommand to use Caliburn.Micro Actions with ICommand
• [Win8] IWindowManager for displaying normal dialogs all around the screen

Services

• IMessageService to show a message box from the ViewModel
• IOpenFileService wraps an OpenFileDialog
• ISaveFileService wraps a SaveFileDialog

IResult Implementations

• MessengerResult wraps a MessageBox
• OpenFileResult wraps an OpenFileDialog with fluent configuration
• SaveFileResult wraps a SaveFileDialog with fluent configuration

Weak Events

powered by Weakly

Conventions

• Module level bootstrappers (inspired by Splitting Application to Multiple Assemblies when using Caliburn.Micro)
• ContentHost control (inspired by Fast switching between ViewModels in Caliburn.Micro

Integrated in CM 2.0

• DebugLogger to see Caliburn.Micro logging output in Visual Studio
• EventAggregatorExtensions to publish messages on different Threads

IResult Implementations

• CancelResult always returns WasCancelled=true
• DelegateResult wraps an arbitrary Action or Func

IResult Extensions

• Rescue<TException>() decorates the result with an error handler which is executed when an error occurs
• WhenChancelled() decorates the result with an handler which is executed when the result was cancelled
• OverrideCancel() decorates the result and overrides WasCancelled=false