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Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:11 PM
If you are building an OOB application with Silverlight that relies on web services, you may have some interesting challenges on you hands.  You probably want to have some fallback for certain operations when the network is down.  You can do... Read More...
Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0!
Monday, October 26, 2009 1:06 PM
Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed... Read More...
Caliburn RC3
Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:42 PM
Today I’ve made the RC3 of Caliburn v1 available. I’m going to let it sit for a couple of weeks, then I will RTW. Please take time to update your code to this new version and post any bugs to the codeplex site . Any bugs not found in the next... Read More...
Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:13 PM
Everywhere I look I find WPF/Silverlight developers who believe a very popular myth: You cannot update a ViewModel or an ObservableCollection from a non-UI thread. Like most myths, there is an element of truth here. But not understanding that truth can... Read More...
Herding Code 57 – Presentation Pattern Goodness
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:26 PM
If you are interested in presentation patterns, Jeremy Miller , Ward Bell , Glenn Block and myself discuss the subject on the latest Herding Code (57). Read More... Read More...
MVVM Study Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ?
Sunday, August 02, 2009 5:38 PM
As a follow-up to my last post on MVVM , I want to further investigate the ViewModel as a concept. In commenting on my blog, one reader describes a ViewModel as “a UI oriented abstraction of the model.” In that sense, he is saying that a ViewModel... Read More...
Caliburn v1 Release Candidate 2 is Available!
Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:27 PM
I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed... Read More...
Caliburn v1 Release Candidate
Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:19 AM
On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies... Read More...
MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:51 AM
Recently Glenn Block asked some questions of the community concerning what support Microsoft should offer for the MVVM design pattern in WPF/Silverlight. I’d like to answer that question here, but in a round-about manner. I’m going to use... Read More...
The Caliburn Beta is Live
Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:15 PM
Today is a long awaited day for me.  Caliburn is now in official Beta.   There have been many bug fixes and a ton of new features since the Alpha release last October.  We’ve also been dogfooding it on several projects, one of which is... Read More...
Caliburn Moved and Documentation Added!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:23 PM
Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex .  You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn .  Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online .  The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created... Read More...
Caliburn Alpha for WPF AND Silverlight is Here!
Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:03 PM
Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios. It's goals are: Support building WPF... Read More...
Caliburn Progress
Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:25 PM
Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn.  I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight.  It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work. ... Read More...
Silverlight Problems That Affect Me
Saturday, July 26, 2008 6:58 PM
I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not... Read More...
What's Up With Caliburn?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:19 PM
After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at.  Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's... Read More...
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