Different View depending on ContentControl (Caliburn.Micro)

Question

I'm binding ViewModels to ContentControls and letting Caliburn taking care of creating and binding the view. However, I would like to customize Caliburns ViewModel->View convention based on which ContentControl I'm binding to.

For example, a regular ContentControl, I want the regular View to bind (SomethingViewModel -> SomethingView). But for a certain ContentControl, I want Caliburn to fetch a View named for example SomethingViewSpecial. Is that possible?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible.

Use cal:View.Context attached property and then name your view for the specified context like YourNamespace.Something.ContextView (remove "ViewModel" from your view model name, add a dot, and the value of Context property).

By that, you can even bind several views to one view model.

Example:

<ContentControl x:Name="Toolbar" cal:View.Model="{Binding ActiveItem}" cal:View.Context="Toolbar" /> 

You can see working example here (from CoProject sample application, part 9).