Caliburn Hello World
A friend recently complained to me that he had a hard time putting together a Hello World application using Caliburn. Here’s a simple step-by-step guide to getting a very simple Caliburn application up and running with the 1.0 release. The goal is to demonstrate the built-in conventions-based binding for view models and views, as well as binding to a method on the view model. This tutorials assume a basic knowledge of MVVM. Setup First, go and download the 1.0 RTW.

More On Caliburn & Silverlight’s SaveFileDialog
I was a bit hasty in my earlier post when I called the SaveFileDialog inadequate. One complaint I was going to make was simply a matter of my ignorance. It had to do with the dialog thinking that it was not initiated by the user. In particular, it was some of our

thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml
I’ve been playing around with the view engine nhaml and asp.net mvc. At the same time, I’m playing around with some architectural ideas in hope to benefit future projects. I’m not doing any fancy yet, but I thought that it might be interesting to show you a couple of things to see what you think. Bear in mind, this is my sandbox code. I also suspect that I’m reinventing some wheels. The context here is a page that allows a user to register for an account on the site. First, the view looks like this: %h2 Create Account %

Are Value Converters Evil?
Justin Angel (who is undoubtedly a Silverlight Rock Star) decided to stir things up a bit on Twitter the other night.  

Saving Files from Silverlight (using Caliburn)
We’ve been working on a Silverlight project that could be classified as a Line Of Business application (whatever that means). There have been a few places where we need to allow users to save files. First, I thought I might give you a peek as to how we do this with Caliburn . Imagine that we are displaying a table of data and that we are allowing the user to export that data to a csv file and save it to their desktop. How We Do It In the view, I have a button that looks like this: <Button pf:Message.Attach="Export"