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Return the value of a Property from child ViewModel to Parent ViewModel

first post: RefractedPaladin wrote: In my WPF MVVM app, using Caliburn.Micro, I have a ViewModel, Creat...

latest post: RefractedPaladin wrote: It's use and life cycle are just for selecting a single member. Th...

Navigate to another screen on WP8?

first post: dominikjeske wrote: Can I use navigationService.UriFor to navigate to another screen in...

latest post: dominikjeske wrote: I’m reading article about activation but I’m still don’t know how t...

Bindings Not Working with Custom Content Control

first post: KeithHSV wrote: I need help from you great experts! I have a custom content contro...

latest post: RufusJWB wrote: Hello! There is not much more to explain. The above shown code is ...

A little help with the bootstrapper please (VB)

first post: The_Chaoz wrote: Ok, so I'm quite new in VMMV and completely new on MEF. I've been r...

latest post: The_Chaoz wrote: Well as I didn't how MEF work (In a naive attempt on my part) to si...

How to Display Messages at Application Startup

first post: ScottHarris wrote: Hi, I am trying to port an application to CM in order to really g...

latest post: ScottHarris wrote: Thanks, that got me on the right track. I determined there are two...

caliburn.micro not showing dialog after application install

first post: jonniebigodes wrote: hi. i've got a bit of a problem with caliburn micro 1.4.0 and wpf ...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: Hi Jonnie, I have responded on SO. I will keep my responses to tha...

Help with ApplicationCloseStrategy from the HelloScreens Sample

first post: abnajjar wrote: The ApplicationCloseStrategy is driving me crazy, i understand what...

latest post: abnajjar wrote: I was doing exactly that, but because of the WindowConductor, the s...

ComboBox Binding Problem

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Hi! I'm trying to use a ComboBox but the Binding isn't working pr...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: Please see the following [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questi...

Questions ICloseStrategy and SequentialResult

first post: abnajjar wrote: Hello, Can we actually benefit from the ICloseStrategy interface un...

Can you manually deactivate/dispose a ViewModel?

first post: bj0 wrote: In a current project I am working on I have a ShellVM that is a Con...

latest post: bj0 wrote: Thanks for the replies. The "parent" VM that is in a conductor sta...

Binding the value of a slider to a double Property raises exception

first post: fpohl wrote: I have a slider Control on my WP7 Page defined like this: ...

latest post: fpohl wrote: You were right, removing the default binding solved the problem. I ...

Action guard method re-evaluation

first post: BladeWise wrote: Every now and then, there is a new user that asks how to trigger av...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: This discussion has been copied to a work item. Click [here](https:...

Newbie: How to add a dynamic ContextMenu using Caliburn

first post: zpete wrote: Hi, I am new to caliburn, therefore this might be a stupid questio...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: Hi zpete, That looks fine. Perhaps an improvement would be to brea...

Handle Exception Thrown by Event Aggregator

first post: BishMan wrote: Hello, Part of our Bootstrapper calls IWindowManager to show our ...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: Hi BishMan, We do not explicitly handle exceptions in the EventAgg...

Hierarchical Data Template without ItemsSource Binding(By Default Caliburn Micro Conventions) not working

first post: Muthalagu wrote: Here i placed my XAML Code: <Menu Name="MainMenu" > <Menu...

Modern UI for WPF

first post: Prakashza wrote: I'm avid fan of your implementation of MVVM. I've busy trying to im...

latest post: palettix wrote: Take a look at this [thread](https://mui.codeplex.com/discussions/4...

Passing complex objects

first post: Darthy wrote: Hello everyone, I just started with Caliburn Micro and loving it ...

latest post: Darthy wrote: Hello, I can confirm your proposed solution works beautifully, tha...

Portable Class Library and CM

first post: sladapter wrote: Hi, I'm trying to develop an app fro both Win8 and Win8 Phone us...

latest post: tibel wrote: Creating a portable version is not as easy as it seems (see [issue ...

WinRT Search Contract Support

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Hi there! I have seen that the Share contract is now supported, ...

latest post: tibel wrote: Have a look at the HelloWinRT sample, it is all included.

ItemsSource binding at design time using naming conventions

first post: JKewley wrote: Hi, I'm new to CM and really appreciate all the work you guys hav...

latest post: JKewley wrote: I asked this same question on Stack Overflow and ended up figuring ...

Help with app that supports silent mode.

first post: twreid wrote: I am converting a project over to use Caliburn.Micro however this a...

RibbonWindow gets messed up

first post: HerrDerSchatten wrote: Hello, I wanted to use a WPF-RibbonWindow in a new WPF Caliburn.Mi...

Headless WPF Application that can launch a dialog

first post: floatingfrisbee wrote: I have a WPF application built using Caliburn Micro and we are look...

ListBox.SelectedItems convention

first post: BladeWise wrote: I noticed that there is no convention for ListBox.SelectedItems, an...

latest post: BladeWise wrote: I have updated the sample to the latest NuGet package and re-uplode...

Screen deactivate overflow issue

first post: parhs wrote: If you try to close something ELSE on deactivate event (like anoth...

Advice on small project

first post: ahmadh21 wrote: Hello, I've got a simple application I'm working, my first WPF & M...

UI takes time to referesh

first post: dhruvj2210 wrote: I am using this framework in my windows store application, but I fo...

latest post: NigelSampson wrote: I haven't been able to create this problem using OnViewReady. In t...

[Dev Question] How is Handler Result Processing Used

first post: McDonnellDean wrote: Hi, I am in the middle of unit testing the event aggregator. I am...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: Ah, I didn't spot these extra handlers. Thanks.

Views as User Controls or Windows

first post: RefractedPaladin wrote: I am new to this and as such probably being an idiot...that said, d...

latest post: RefractedPaladin wrote: Thanks, that is the path I had already gone down as well. I am REA...

Having Trouble Getting Started on Windows Phone 8

first post: FormstackDev wrote: My question has been answered. Thanks McDonnellDean I'm new to Ca...

latest post: McDonnellDean wrote: No panic, I still do it every so often! You learn after a while to...

Calling TryClose from ContextMenu on TaskbarIcon leaves process open... somtimes.

first post: bj0 wrote: I am seeing the following inconsistant behavior: Calling TryClose f...

latest post: bj0 wrote: No I have a standard View/ViewModel for a main window, and then a s...

Confusion about View lifetime.

first post: bj0 wrote: I am working on a relatively large and complex WPF app and am using...

latest post: bj0 wrote: Yea, thanks for the links. It looks like the views are cached by d...

WinRT ItemTemplateSelector

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: I'm trying to use an ItemTemplateSelector on a ListView, however it...

latest post: NigelSampson wrote: This looks like it may already be fixed in the commit https://calib...

Data Virtualization on ListView

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Hi! I'm trying to implement Data Virtualization on my App. Someth...

latest post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Sorry. I just got it working. There was a problem on the view.

Create AttachMessage failing in WinRT

first post: apurvagoyal7 wrote: Hello, I am trying to use Caliburn Micro with my WinRT project (V...

latest post: apurvagoyal7 wrote: Thanks Nigel! I finally figured it out- the syntax to use namespac...

Caliburn.Micro2 Navigation

first post: AlexJustin wrote: Hello, Is there a version 2 navigation system to fully support WPF?

Testing & Formating Branch

first post: McDonnellDean wrote: Hi Guys, Before I go ahead and do anything I was wondering what t...

Message.Handler / Message.Attach

first post: tthibodeau wrote: The documentation is very clear on what Message.Attach is for and h...

Design Time on Windows Store Apps

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Hello, I'm trying to implement design time data on my Windows St...

latest post: kAIOSHIN wrote: This helped me solve my problem: http://stackoverflow.com/question...

Button convention for System.Action?

first post: c_manboy wrote: I would like to import a System.Action in my viewmodel which is fir...

ListView with Grouped Collection

first post: kAIOSHIN wrote: Hi there! I have a ListView binded to CollectionViewSource which i...

Dialog Managers

first post: ScottHarris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty new to Caliburn Micro and am trying to work throug...

latest post: codekaizen wrote: Sounds like overkill for your scenario. If WindowManager.ShowDialog...

Message.Action in ListBox?

first post: GEN3RIC wrote: I have templated a ListBox, and I'm having trouble getting the Acti...

latest post: mvermef wrote: yep that was the way to do it with TargetWithoutContext. I run wit...

Login dialog from Bootstrappers OnStartup method

first post: Tongo wrote: Hi there I need to implement a login dialog from the overridden OnS...

latest post: mvermef wrote: INavigationService won't be active in that fashion yet... it would ...

ContextMenu not working

first post: eibrahim wrote: I read all the threads related to context menu and ended up with th...

latest post: ShawnDeWet wrote: @badscooter Thanks your approach worked for me!

Autowire fields and controls?

first post: LNahum wrote: say I have field private int _data; and xaml <textblock x:n...

latest post: BladeWise wrote: Commands are not generated... Actually they are not even used by CM...

Non-generic Bootstrapper obsolete?

first post: blah238 wrote: In this changeset, the non-generic Bootstrapper class was marked as...

latest post: LukeNuttall wrote: I've just hit this issue as well. Is there a set of release notes ...

ChangeLog

first post: mirle wrote: Hi guys, Is there some kind of changelog available? I've searched...

latest post: mirle wrote: Ok, thanks!

Conductor for Child-ViewModels in Main-ViewModel.

first post: swerffeli wrote: My WPF application consists of a main screen, from which you can op...

Unit testing a view model

first post: GeorgiosP wrote: Lets say I have the following view model. How can I write a unit te...

latest post: GeorgiosP wrote: I got a reply about that [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...

UserControl ImageButton, clickhandler and x:Name

first post: RayGamma wrote: I have created a very simple user control, an ImageButton <User...

[WP8] Panorama control does not work with data-binding

first post: tibel wrote: A few users of CM already found out that Panorama control is not re...

latest post: snaits wrote: Looks like the issue on MS Connect is closed, without any further i...

CTP Assemblies?

first post: mvermef wrote: Are you trying to get ahead of the game or break source for those t...

latest post: tibel wrote: [VS2012 Update 2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details....

Manually Triggering Validation in WPF while using Caliburn Micro

first post: floatingfrisbee wrote: I have a view model that implements IDataErrorInfo (and derived fro...

Telerik RadDiagram and Caliburn.Micro

first post: tthibodeau wrote: Hi all, I've been banging my head against the wall with using CB.M...

latest post: tthibodeau wrote: Telerik got back to my question with a TemplateSelector solution, c...

Creating actions in code

first post: jur wrote: Hi, I'm working on a plugin, which uses WPF and integrated UI cont...

latest post: EisenbergEffect wrote: Have a look at the Parser. It transforms the short, textual action ...

WinRT Caliburn.Micro CollectionViewSource and design time binding sample.

first post: kolorimage wrote: Why WInRT sample project hasn't sample of design time data binding ...

UserControls Library with Caliburn.Micro

first post: VOIDY wrote: I used the sample app tutorial to create a basic bootstrapper and i...

latest post: VOIDY wrote: Solved: Modified the constructor to public RibbonControlViewM...

WinRT Caliburn.Micro with tab's and serailization.

first post: AlexanderKa wrote: Hi all! Caliburn micro very cool MVVM framework, and i like it to ...

latest post: NigelSampson wrote: Currently CM doesn't add any support for Platform Lifecycle Managem...

ViewModel Based Navigation, Maintaining State and OnSearchActivated

first post: gtb wrote: Hi, I'm working on my first app and I'm using C.M to get my head ar...

Prism to Caliburn.Micro

first post: AlexJustin wrote: Who can become a project of the prism to Caliburn.Micro help me? No...

DialogResult using Coroutines

first post: apurvagoyal wrote: Hello, I am using following code to show a dialog when clicking a b...

latest post: madben2000 wrote: Help needed! Hi, I have a similar implementation and it works fine...

Do ViewModels have to be in the same Namespace?

first post: jasonward wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use a viewmodel stored in a portable class libr...

latest post: jasonward wrote: Interesting, I'll have to take a look and see if it helps.

cal:View.Model Blend 2012

first post: Altk wrote: Hello. I am using Caliburn.Micro 1.5.1 in my application. I develop...

Cannot install nuget package

first post: JontyMC wrote: Hi, I'm getting this error when installing nuget package: Could n...

latest post: gnatster wrote: I had the same NuGet error. It went away once I updated NuGet. Also...

Compile under .Net 3.5

first post: matfiz wrote: Hi! In the intro article it was mentioned that Caliburn.Micro shoul...

latest post: blah238 wrote: Just to update this, I needed to download [this version of Reactive...

IHandle(of ...) is ambiguous

first post: c_manboy wrote: When I have multiple IHandle I'm receiving this warning: 'Interfa...

latest post: c_manboy wrote: Thanks.

Windows 8 store apps

first post: robjuca wrote: Dear Sir, Very simple and direct question: Can I use Caliburn.Mic...

latest post: robjuca wrote: Dear Sir, Thank you 8) Roberto Jucá

[WP8] ViewModel - View convention bug?

first post: dwinter0 wrote: I'm working on two projects using Caliburn.micro, the first is bein...

latest post: dwinter0 wrote: Hi. I simply changed the viewmodel name and view name to ManageChec...

Default Item Template and ICollectionView

first post: nkmoore wrote: Hi All, I had an application which was binding a listbox to an Obs...

latest post: blah238 wrote: No I think your fix works great. As I mentioned in the other thread...

Navigation for Win Phone 8

first post: kahlin wrote: I'm running into problems with navigation on WinPhone 8. When I do...

latest post: tibel wrote: Sorry, but this change will not work if the view is in a sub-namesp...

ConventionManager.ApplyItemTemplate - doesn't apply template if non-generic collection

first post: codekaizen wrote: In ConventionManager.ApplyItemTemplate the property type of the ite...

latest post: codekaizen wrote: Ok, I rebased and pushed to my fork. All 1.5 changesets should now ...

Publish extensions

first post: awattar wrote: Could anyone help me write methods that will do the following:Publi...

latest post: tibel wrote: Now, with CM 1.5 it is even simpler: /// <summary> /// Extensions...

How do I solve binding multiple views to a ObservableCollection?

first post: obiwanjacobi wrote: Hi I have a situation where I have a normal property of type Obse...

latest post: obiwanjacobi wrote: I work ViewModel first. But in this case I thought perhaps View fir...

_DisplayName / DisplayName issues

first post: CameronGordon wrote: So all my previous thread questions have thankfully solved themselv...

latest post: mvermef wrote: glad you got it solved.

ConductResult from CMContrib - closing Screen does not work correctly

first post: mnn wrote: I'm using CM.Contrib library, specifically I'm using ConductResult,...

WP7 and Linq to SQL Issue

first post: nitro52 wrote: Hi, I'm having an issue with Linq to SQL that is very strange and i...

latest post: asavasamuel wrote: nitro52 Here is a database compatible with WinRT: https://www.kel...

[WinRT] ViewModels Singleton

first post: Halloween wrote: I would like to know if the viewmodels are singleton in Caliburn? ...

latest post: asavasamuel wrote: Halloween Here is a database compatible with WinRT: https://www.ke...

Navigation

first post: GerhardKreuzer wrote: Hi, just want to ask for some proof of conept. I want to have an ...

WP8 - OnActivate event doesn't work in Screen

first post: dominikjeske wrote: I’m developing application for WP8 following this example: http://w...

latest post: dominikjeske wrote: It look like I have to inherit from Conductor.Collection.OneActive ...

ActionMessage from assembly 'Caliburn.Micro' is built with an older version of the Blend SDK

first post: mseeli wrote: I get the above error in VS2012 when I open a xaml file that inclu...

latest post: pascalsz wrote: Hi, i'm having the same issues using latest Calibrun.Micro 1.4.1 ...

Communication between popup and long running process

first post: GeorgiosP wrote: What I want to achieve is having a popup show up when I want to run...

OnActivate and OnDeactivate not working on a child view

first post: GeorgiosP wrote: I modified the MDI example to demonstrate my problem Initially, I...

latest post: GeorgiosP wrote: Thanks. This worked fine.

Dynamic View creation

first post: obiwanjacobi wrote: I have a need to create a specific view dynamically - meaning I won...

HelloScreens WPF, closing and transition not working as expected

first post: lighthouse72 wrote: Hello, First of all thanks for Caliburn.Micro. To learn more abou...

latest post: lighthouse72 wrote: I am not able to read my post if someone have the same problem pls ...

ActionExecutionContext is null when running Coroutine.Execute() from ViewModel

first post: CoderDad wrote: I'm trying to accomplish a very similar task to How to execute a co...

latest post: dbeattie wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4454703/caliburn-micro-how-can-i...

Separate Action Target object?

first post: obiwanjacobi wrote: Hi, I am starting off with my first Caliburn.Micro project. In...

latest post: BladeWise wrote: You can use Action.TargetWithoutContext.

How to create an Instance-spcecific bootstrapper?

first post: c_manboy wrote: This question is related to http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com/discu...

Bootstrapper with Unity Yields Exception

first post: jdp15 wrote: Greetings I am using Unity as my IOC container in the bootstrapper...

Startup Window won't start without StartupUri

first post: CameronGordon wrote: I'm 99.99% sure I have everything setup correctly. For some reason ...

latest post: mvermef wrote: Does your ShellViewModel have an inheritance of IShellViewModel, al...

Question about IChild.cs?

first post: jradxl wrote: Why is there a "new" in IChild<TParent> ? public interface IChild<T...

latest post: codekaizen wrote: IChild, the base interface, already has a property named Parent and...

ListBox & Cal:View.Context.

first post: Irvine wrote: Hi, This is probably just a misunderstanding on my part. I have a...

How to use ConventionManager.ApplyValueConverter for int to string conversion?

first post: danielfox wrote: Hi, I have a control in the UI which extends HeaderedItemsControl...

"TypeInitialization Expected" thrown on Bootstrapper

first post: CameronGordon wrote: When I run my WPF app, I get a "TypeInitialization Expected" error ...

latest post: CameronGordon wrote: Thanks.. I got it to compile by commenting out the "ArgumentNotNul...

StackOverflowException with too many items in Conductor?

first post: Arparso wrote: Is there a bug related to using many items in a conductor? I need ...

latest post: tibel wrote: Pushed a fix for DefaultCloseStrategy that handles defered callback...

Hello Screens Sample Dialogs XAML Added at Runtime

first post: thaehn wrote: I used part of the Hello Screens Sample in my project to implement ...

How to detect Clean, Dirty, Invalid status of View (not ViewModel)

first post: skytigercube wrote: Consider this sequence of events: User clicks in TextBox (View is...

latest post: BladeWise wrote: I used a similar approach, but embedded parsing in a control, and d...

WPF AutoCompleteBox

first post: JamesCurran wrote: I'm trying to set uo the conventions for the AutoCompleteBox from ...

latest post: RufusJWB wrote: Thank you James! This helped me a lot!

Question about SimpleContainer

first post: jradxl wrote: There is a Nuget Package Caliburn.Micro.Container which I've tried ...

Backend access pattern (re: Games Library)

first post: norgie wrote: Hi. Has anyone had a look at the "back-end" access "pattern" Eisen...

latest post: ps2323ps wrote: I have actually run into exactly the problems that you mention. So ...