Can't Make Caliburn.Micro Work With Windows Phone - windows-phone-7

Question

I'm trying to understand how Caliburn.Micro works with Windows Phone (and MVVM in general) so I created a basic Windows Phone Application, installed Caliburn.Micro NuGet package (v1.2.0 - the latest for now) and followed the few instructions here and there. So, I ended up with:
WMAppManifest.xml
<DefaultTask Name ="_default" NavigationPage="Views/HomeView.xaml"/>
Framework/AppBootstrapper.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Windows;
using Caliburn.Micro;
using MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.ViewModels;
namespace MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.Framework
{
public class AppBootstrapper : PhoneBootstrapper
{
PhoneContainer container;
protected override void Configure()
{
container = new PhoneContainer(RootFrame);
container.RegisterPhoneServices();
container.Singleton<HomeViewModel>();
}
protected override void OnUnhandledException(object sender, ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
if (Debugger.IsAttached)
{
Debugger.Break();
e.Handled = true;
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("An unexpected error occured, sorry about the troubles.", "Oops...", MessageBoxButton.OK);
e.Handled = true;
}
base.OnUnhandledException(sender, e);
}
protected override object GetInstance(Type service, string key)
{
return container.GetInstance(service, key);
}
protected override IEnumerable<object> GetAllInstances(Type service)
{
return container.GetAllInstances(service);
}
protected override void BuildUp(object instance)
{
container.BuildUp(instance);
}
}
}
ViewModels/HomeViewModel.cs
using Caliburn.Micro;
namespace MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.ViewModels
{
public class HomeViewModel : Screen
{
public HomeViewModel()
{
//DisplayName = "Home";
}
}
}
View/HomeView.xaml.cs (the XAML page is the default Window Phone Portrait Page)
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
namespace MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.Views
{
public partial class HomeView : PhoneApplicationPage
{
public HomeView()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
}
App.xaml
<Application
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
x:Class="MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.App"
xmlns:Framework="clr-namespace:MyCaliburn.PhoneUI.Framework">
<!--Application Resources-->
<Application.Resources>
<Framework:AppBootstrapper x:Key="bootstrapper" />
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
App.xaml.cs
using System.Windows;
namespace MyCaliburn.PhoneUI
{
public partial class App : Application
{
/// <summary>
/// Constructor for the Application object.
/// </summary>
public App()
{
// Standard Silverlight initialization
InitializeComponent();
}
}
}
Now, when I hit F5, the application runs and exits without showing any page or exception and doesn't hit any breakpoints that I sit.
Can anyone tells me what's missing in my code which prevents the application from running?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Many times when I end up with an app that does not start - it turns out that due to some refactoring the App class is not the startup object any more. Right-click on the project in solution explorer, go to properties/Application and make sure Startup object is set correctly.