Design-Time Support
Article forthcoming...Enabling Caliburn.Micro inside the Visual Studio designer (or Blend) is quite easy.
You have to set a Desinger-DataContext and tell CM to enable its magic in your view XAML:
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:CaliburnDesignTimeData.ViewModels"
xmlns:cal="clr-namespace:Caliburn.Micro;assembly=Caliburn.Micro"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance Type=vm:MainPageViewModel, IsDesignTimeCreatable=True}"
cal:Bind.AtDesignTime="True"For this to work, the ViewModel must have a default constructor. If this isn't suitable, you can also use a ViewModelLocator for your design-time ViewModel creation.
NOTE: It seems that VS2010 has an issue in the WP7 designer and an exception in CM ConventionManager is thrown. You can workaround this by overriding ApplyValidation in your bootstrapper:
ConventionManager.ApplyValidation = (binding, viewModelType, property) => {
if (typeof(INotifyDataErrorInfo).IsAssignableFrom(viewModelType)) {
binding.ValidatesOnNotifyDataErrors = true;
binding.ValidatesOnExceptions = true;
}
};