Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters

So far in this Caliburn Micro tutorial series we have looked at how to get started with using Caliburn Micro in a WPF application, and how to link the view and the view-model together using data binding and events. In today’s tutorial, we will take a look at the more advanced ways of hooking up events and specifying event parameters. To experiment with these features, we will be further extending the application created in the previous two blog posts.

You may remember from the previous blog post that we hooked up events using the help of Caliburn Micro’s naming conventions. All we needed to do was set the name of a button in the view to be the same name as a method in the view-model. Then the Click event of the button will be automatically hooked up to call the appropriate method. Sometimes however you will need to explicitly hook up the events in order to provide event parameters or specify exactly which event you want to use. To do this, Caliburn Micro provides a long syntax and a short syntax. The advantage of the long syntax is its compatability with Microsoft Expression Blend. The short syntax is great if you’re not interested in using a designer and want to keep things short and sweet. Let’s start off with learning how to use the long syntax.

Long Syntax

The best way to begin is to modify the existing application to use the long syntax without changing the current behaviour. Open up AppView.xaml and include these 2 namespaces:

xmlns:i="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Interactivity;assembly=System.Windows.Interactivity"
xmlns:cal="http://www.caliburnproject.org"

Then, simply replace the repeat button with this:

<RepeatButton Content="Up" Margin="15" VerticalAlignment="Top">
  <i:Interaction.Triggers>
    <i:EventTrigger EventName="Click">
      <cal:ActionMessage MethodName="IncrementCount" />
    </i:EventTrigger>
  </i:Interaction.Triggers>
</RepeatButton>

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