Introduction
The most important goals of Catel v5 are:
- Simplify feature sets (remove as much features we don't use as possible)
- Improve performance, see the benchmark summary
- Convert to .net standard to simplify the project structure (minimize platform-specific libraries)
- Support all important relevant / modern platforms (WPF, UWP, Xamarin Android / iOS, Xamarin.Forms)
Overview
Below is a visual representation of the library set up which should minimize the platform specific libraries as much as possible.
Catel.Core
Goal is to drop all the different platform implementations and provide a single Catel.Core based on net standard 2.0.
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed
Catel.MVVM
The Catel.MVVM library will be based on net standard 2.0. This means there will be a base version of Catel.MVVM.
- Catel.MVVM
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.iOS
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Android
- Catel.MVVM.Windows.Shared => shared library for all windows libraries, will contain items from Catel.Extensions.Controls
- Catel.MVVM.Windows.WPF.NET46
- Catel.MVVM.Windows.UWP
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.Shared
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.Android
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.iOS
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.Tizen
- Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.UWP
Actions required
- Convert Catel.MVVM to .net standard 2.0
- Create Catel.MVVM.Windows.Shared
- Create Catel.MVVM.Xamarin.Forms.Shared
- Create platform-specific libraries
Features added
Features removed
| Feature | Description |
|---|
| InterestedIn | There are better ways to communicate between view models, this will improve performance |
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Catel.Extensions.Controls
This library will be fully removed. There are only 2 important features left.
Actions required
- Move StackGrid to Catel.MVVM.Windows.Shared
- Move StyleHelper to Orchestra (is WPF only)
Catel.Extensions.Data
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed
Catel.Extensions.DynamicObjects
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed
Catel.Extensions.EntityFramework
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed
Catel.Extensions.FluentValidation
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed
Catel.Serialization.Json
Actions required
- Convert to .net standard 2.0
Features added
Features removed