Included in this maintance release
@RudolfJan has also improved the tutorials in the documentation
Template options for Caliburn Micro in VS 2019
CMNET5 project template for FAST and EASY creation of WPF MVVM Windows Desktop application using Caliburn.Micro WPF MVVM Framework (stable version 4.0.173) and the powerful .NET5. This first release s
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AADE-24584A29-EE74-4159-866D-696FBCFBC38D.CmNet5ProjectTemplate202110211850
Caliburn.Micro project templates for .net core WPF apps. The template pack includes VB and C# templates. More templates and VS 2022 support coming soon.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=KenTucker.CaliburnMicroTemplates
I am pleased to anounce that Caliburn.Micro 4 is released.
All of these platforms are still supported in the 3.x releases.
Below is the changes included in 4.0.0 release.
The platforms targeted have been changed to support the new .NET ecosystem. These include:
The Event Aggregator has some major breaking changes, that bring it into an async implementation approach that is the main reason for 4.0.0.
The full changes are available in the event aggregator migration documentation.
@nigel-sampson, @KasperSK, @BartoszPierzchlewiczMacrix, @pableess, @mbreckon, @willson556, @beachwalker, @MafuJosh, @imba-tjd, @davidhenley, @@gpetrou, @louistio, @Rmurray0809, @qtuu, @mgnsm, @CaulyKan, @babackman, @chrisstaley, @bryanbcook, @llifon, @tziemek, @Stannieman, @jonstelly, @rossvegas, @TheBigRic, @markybolton, @vb2ae, @CoreyVincent
I would expecially like to thank @nigel-sampson for his hard work and leadership over the years on Caliburn.Micro. Without his support this release would not have been possible.
If there are any additional changes you would like to see please open a support ticket so we can discuss them
Please try the latest Release Candidate for Caliburn Micro 4 and provide feed back
The Release Candidate Caliburn.Micro 4.0.155-rc is available on the MyGet feed from a NuGet package console window
https://www.myget.org/feed/caliburn-micro-builds/package/nuget/Caliburn.Micro
Install-Package Caliburn.Micro -Version 4.0.155-rc -Source https://www.myget.org/F/caliburn-micro-builds/api/v3/index.json
This has been a hard post to write and probably a few years over due, but human nature being what it is has delayed it longer than it should have.
Roughly eight years ago I started working at a company Marker Metro that was founded around building great Windows apps both on the desktop and phone. This was about the time of the Windows 8 launch, we were fortunate to be working with a number of launch partners and have access to early builds of Windows 8 in order to have apps in the store when the OS launched. Back then I had used Caliburn.Micro (at the time created and maintained by Rob Eisenberg) on some WPF, Silverlight and WP7 projects and wanted to use it in Windows 8. By then Rob had moved on to working mostly with Durandal so I spent some of my time at work porting CM across to Windows 8 and submitted the PR.
These PR’s ultimately led to me to take over maintenance of the CM project and over time add support for UWP and Xamarin.Forms. I’ve been very lucky with this opportunity, maintaining a popular open source project lead to many other opportunities that really snowballed, being able to speak internationally as well as the award of a Microsoft MVP for five consecutive years. I was also lucky in that my work at the time supported working on Caliburn.Micro as part of my day job.
But four years ago I moved on to a different job that wasn’t apps focused and the only time I had to work on Caliburn.Micro was late in the evening. At this point my family had grown and spare time was even more precious, for a long time I thought I could keep it up and be able to support the project even when I wasn’t using it on a day to day basis in my evenings. History has shown that it wasn’t going to happen, the time for 4.0 to be created and released is ample proof of that and I’ve put off writing this post for probably two years.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing the following.
I’d like to thank everyone who’s helped me with this project over the years.
Nigel Sampson