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Release notes for Catel 3.9.0
Release date:
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2014/02/05
Added/fixed (BREAKING CHANGES):
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(+) CTL-307 Added IViewModelContainer events for view load states (Loading, Loaded, Unloading, Unloaded). Catel now
correctly handles large nested trees which are correctly unloaded and no dummy view models are being created any
longer for sub views which are not yet (but about to be) unloaded. Catel is now aware that a view model is about
to be unloaded when the DataContextChanged event occurs (before a view is actually unloaded). This is a breaking
change for users that have implemented a custom base class for views. To fix the issue, implement the required
events on the views as explained at https://catelproject.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CTL/Using+a+custom+control
(*) CTL-313 Improved IoCConfiguration so it is easier to replace specific IoC components in Catel. This is a breaking
change for users that manually instantiate the ServiceLocator or that have customized any component. For more
information, visit https://catelproject.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CTL/Replacing+the+default+components
(-) CTL-273 Removed external container registration and synchronization support for the ServiceLocator. The reason
for this is complex maintenance, bad performance (all done via reflection) and there are now better alternatives
Added/fixed:
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(+) CTL-10 Added multilingual support with LanguageService and LanguageBinding (for XAML)
(+) CTL-24 ServiceLocator can now register types with a callback so types can be created using a function callback
(+) CTL-45 ServiceLocator can now register types using conventions
(+) CTL-204 Catel.IoC.IServiceLocator should contains some method to remove registered type
(+) CTL-262 Created CommandManager to support application-wide commands using MVVM
(+) CTL-266 Added ConfigurationService to get and set configuration values
(+) CTL-276 Add CompositeCommand to group several commands together
(+) CTL-283 Added ExcludeFromSerialization attribute to prevent annotation validation on properties where
it should not be called on
(+) CTL-288 Added additional ProcessAsync methods on IExceptionService
(+) CTL-292 Added ServiceLocator extension methods for registrations with tags and RemoveType
(+) CTL-300 Added ChangeNotificationWrapper methods to unsubscribe and subscribe collections items manually
(+) CTL-302 Added TextToUpperCaseConverter and TextToLowerCaseConverter converters
(+) CTL-319 Added ParallelHelper to invoke actions on very large sets of items with a customizable batch size
(*) CTL-211 Renamed resource files of simple chinese from zh-CHS to zh-Hans
(*) CTL-230 XmlSchemaHelper now supports the new serialization engine introduced in Catel 3.7
(*) CTL-261 Replace all instances of RegisterDebugListener with AddDebugListener
(*) CTL-264 Reset FileServiceBase.ValidateNames default value to true
(*) CTL-285 Windows Phone navigation will now keep view models tight to their page instantiations and will only
actively close a view model when the back button is used
(*) CTL-286 NavigationContext will now only be updated on the initial navigation for a view model
(*) CTL-295 Improved LocationService for Windows Phone 8
(*) CTL-320 All initialization modules in Catel now implement the IServiceLocatorInitializer interface. This allows
developers to create IServiceLocator initializers which will automatically be called when creating a service locator
(x) CTL-232 XmlSerialization of complex types (interface collections of interfaces with each element of diff. class)
(x) CTL-268 EF 6 extension does not register types automatically
(x) CTL-275 Fixed implementation of StartUpInfoProvider Arguments property
(x) CTL-278 Validation throws exception on modelbase properties (should improve performance on validating models)
(x) CTL-294 ServiceLocator does not throw CircularDependencyException for some cases
(x) CTL-298 Nested view models with default constructor behave incorrectly. Now the child views are correctly closed
as part of closing a nested hierarchy inside a DataWindow
(x) CTL-299 ChangeNotificationWrapper does not handle NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset correctly
(x) CTL-308 Serialization now omits the the default namespace for value types and strings which allows WCF
services to use encryption
(x) CTL-311 MessageMediator issues when removing subscription
(x) CTL-314 Catel + Json.NET model causes ArgumentNullException during deserialization from json => ModelBase
(x) CTL-317 MVC DependencyResolver does not support dynamic new pages
(-) CTL-282 Removed AllowNonSerializedMembers attribute because it is no longer required because
of the new serialization engine introduced in Catel 3.7
