1. Supports deeplinking
2. Easy setup
3. IOC agnostic

The solution comes with a really simple sample application which explains how you can set it up. To have it set up on your application you need to do following things:

1. Include the Caliburn.Micro.Navigation project
2. In the AppBootstraper part, you need to add the navigation conventions (see the AppBootstrapper of the sample app)
3. Register viewmodels with navigation names
4. In the shellView, replace ContentControl with Frame control and set CaliburnContentLoader as a contentLoader
5. Have the ShellViewModel inherit from NavigationConductor instead of Conductor

And i think that’s about it. To have DeepLinking enabled, use the INavigationAware interface on the particular screen.

I think that’s it, the sample app should be self explanatory if not:).
To grab the source head on to codeplex

Enjoy!

– If I would add a new item to the collection from code, the dataform would try to commit it immediately. Which basically means that the “Cancel” button wouldn’t do anything, and it should cancel addition of a new object to the collection. This is just one of the problems, but it’s the stuff you don’t really want around, and that can get really annoying and also lead to some nasty bugs.

I also didn’t care much for navigation and CRUD buttons: if i want those i’ll do it on the side somewhere. Yet they felt like they introduced unnecessary complexity. So the solution i ended up with is downloading the Silverlight toolkit source and doing some tweaks and modifications. I also renamed it to SlimForm, as well as everything around it (DataField became SlimField and such) just to keep things divided and clean. I did some tweaks from the get go, the solution is (for now) cooperating much better with my custom CollectionViews (which i’ll also get online soon i hope), i got rid of the navigation and CRUD stuff, some Resharper refactoring and that’s basically it! My aim is to make it as passive and responsive as possible, without sacrificing the validation and editing functions, which i only care about. This is a first take on the whole thing, but it’s so refreshing to have control over those tricky behaviours, instead of jumping through hoops and doing some weird workarounds. Not much work went into it, but it’s gonna save you an hour or 3:) HTH! Download link: SlimForm