Catel.Examples | Examples for Catel in WPF , Silverlight , Windows Phone

I can't get Xamarin.Forms and Catel work together.

I saw this sample but it seems it's out of date.

When I download Catel via NuGet, i get different issues for different versions:

• v5.1:

  Compile-time exception:

  Exception while loading assemblies: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly 'Obsolete, Version=4.2.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1ca091877d12ca03'. Perhaps it doesn't exist in the Mono for Android profile?

• v5.0:

  Runtime exception (when creating new App();):

  Could not load signature of Catel.MVVM.IViewModelFactory:CreateViewModel due to: Could not resolve type with token 01000061 (from typeref, class/assembly System.ComponentModel.IDataErrorInfo, Catel.Core, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null) assembly:Catel.Core, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null type:System.ComponentModel.IDataErrorInfo member:

• v4.5.*

  • Using ViewModelBase:

    Runtime exception when creating Application object: System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 01000097 (from typeref, class/assembly System.Reflection.BindingFlags, Catel.Core, Version=4.5.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)

  • My implementation of IViewModel:

    Ok, MainPage loading, binding works, Constructor gets right services via parameters, but, for example, when I call '_uiVisualizerService.Show( subPageViewModel );' from command, it throws 'InvalidCastException'. Last line in Catel log before exception: Injecting properties into type 'SubPage' after construction. But SubPage and SubPageViewModel are absolutely empty.

    Details:

    ---> System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid. at Catel.Services.UIVisualizerService+d__9.MoveNext () [0x00096] in C:\CI_WS\Ws\97969\Source\Catel\src\Catel.MVVM\Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms\Services\UIVisualizerService.cs:151 at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional (System.Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) [0x00011] in <183b200ee49746d48fc781625979428e>:0 at System.Threading.Tasks.Task'1[TResult].GetResultCore (System.Boolean waitCompletionNotification) [0x0002b] in <183b200ee49746d48fc781625979428e>:0 at System.Threading.Tasks.Task'1[TResult].get_Result () [0x0000f] in <183b200ee49746d48fc781625979428e>:0 at Catel.Services.UIVisualizerService.Show (Catel.MVVM.IViewModel viewModel, System.EventHandler``1[TEventArgs] completedProc) [0x00000] in C:\CI_WS\Ws\97969\Source\Catel\src\Catel.MVVM\Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms\Services\UIVisualizerService.cs:125 at XamarinFormsCatel.ViewModels.MainPageViewModel.OnGo () [0x00015] in C:\!Work\Test\XamarinFormsCatel\XamarinFormsCatel\XamarinFormsCatel\XamarinFormsCatel\ViewModels\MainPageViewModel.cs:34 at Xamarin.Forms.Command+<>c__DisplayClass3_0.<.ctor>b__0 (System.Object o) [0x00000] in C:\BuildAgent3\work\ca3766cfc22354a1\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Command.cs:73 at Xamarin.Forms.Command.Execute (System.Object parameter) [0x00000] in C:\BuildAgent3\work\ca3766cfc22354a1\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Command.cs:107 at Xamarin.Forms.Button.Xamarin.Forms.IButtonController.SendClicked () [0x0000a] in C:\BuildAgent3\work\ca3766cfc22354a1\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Button.cs:121 at Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.AppCompat.ButtonRenderer+ButtonClickListener.OnClick (Android.Views.View v) [0x0000b] in C:\BuildAgent3\work\ca3766cfc22354a1\Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android\AppCompat\ButtonRenderer.cs:298 at Android.Views.View+IOnClickListenerInvoker.n_OnClick_Landroid_view_View_ (System.IntPtr jnienv, System.IntPtr native__this, System.IntPtr native_v) [0x0000f] in <71828dd8fb5f4508815e23d6996c45c2>:0 at (wrapper dynamic-method) System.Object:4c9f6786-8ab0-4bd8-bdb1-4cc7a3d7ddc7 (intptr,intptr,intptr) -> (Inner Exception #0) System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid. at Catel.Services.UIVisualizerService+d__9.MoveNext () [0x00096] in C:\CI_WS\Ws\97969\Source\Catel\src\Catel.MVVM\Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms\Services\UIVisualizerService.cs:151 <---

What i do:

• Change defalt Catel.MVVM.dll reference in android project from MonoAndroid to portable-net45+wp8+win8+wpa81+MonoAndroid10+MonoTouch10+Xamarin.iOS10+UAP10. if this is not done, compilation will fail.

• MainPage.xaml

• MainPageViewModel.cs

  public class MainPageViewModel : ViewModelBase { }

• App.cs

  public class App : Catel.Xamarin.Forms.Application { }

• MainActivity.cs (Android)

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