OK, this isn't going to be a line-by-line code quality review.  Anyone who is interested can take a look (and will find the quality is excellent).  This is about my experiences so far using Caliburn Micro for relatively simple UIs. First off, let me say that I'm unaware of any competitors to CM and, at the time of writing, I can't imagine ever not using it unless I decide to build my own.  If I built my own, it would probably look quite like CM. Convention Based Binding This is the raison d'etre of CM, and it...

One of the most frustrating things for a user is to receive a cryptic error message.  This is closely followed by a developer receiving the same error message.  Let’s say you’re using Fluent NHibernate and you get the error message “Sequence contains no elements”.  Chances are, you’ve done something wrong.  The problem is that you’re not going to figure out what unless you actually debug the source code.  This particular error message is generated by the “Single” extension method.  This code by design does the following: Returns the first element in the list ...