If you have the problem, that Visual Studio 2010 complains ‘Cannot register duplicate name ‘XXX’ in this scope’, check if you have Resources with a x:Name insted of x:Key-Name:

<SolidColorBrush x:Name="NonWorkingResourceName" Color="Red" />
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="WorkingResourceName" Color="Blue" />

Replace x:Name with x:Key and everything is ok.

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Caliburn.Micro – Introduction

Caliburn.Micro is a lightweight and small, yet powerful framework for developing rich WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone applications. Caliburn.Micro has only a single dependency to the System.Windows.Interactivity library. Due to its small footprint of only 75 k and approximately 2700 lines of code it is not only lightning fast in startup and execution time but also easy to understand. The framework offers pattern guidance for the following well established design patterns:

• Model – View – ViewModel (MVVM)
• Model – View – Presenter (MVP)
• Model – View – Controller (MVC)

Rob Eisenberg (www.robeisenberg.com) and Marco Amendola (marcoamendola.wordpress.com) are actively maintaining the project and taking care of the documentation. The documentation is really thorough and offers tips and tricks how to avoid the common pitfalls. The project is released under a developer and company friendly license namely the MIT License.

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