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Getting started with Caliburn

The lack of documentation and examples of usage is one of the biggest obstacles getting started with Caliburn. I hope this article can help somewhat!

One of my biggest fears when starting a new project is heading in the wrong direction and not realizing that we are headed for disaster until it's too late. Due to architectural decisions, this is always a worry, but the new project is based on WPF, the risk and possibility of a failure is drastically increased. I'm afraid that my WPF projects become "Windows Formish", not taking advantage of MVP/ MVVM.

This is Part 1 of my series on Caliburn, Part 2 on multiple views on one ViewModel can be found here, and Part 3 on unit testing Caliburn can be found here.

Caliburn was designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications, enabling easier use of among other MVP and MVVM. This article will be a walkthrough of a rather simple WPF application based on Caliburn. The example used here is a very simple application retrieving a value from a textbox, publishing it to an EventAggregator, and then let another component handle the published message. Hopefully I am able to show some of the advantages of Caliburn through this example.