Stylet vs MVVM Dialogs

Stylet

A very lightweight but powerful ViewModel-First MVVM framework for WPF for .NET Framework and .NET Core, inspired by Caliburn.Micro. (by canton7)

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MVVM Dialogs

Library simplifying the concept of opening dialogs from a view model when using MVVM in WPF (by FantasticFiasco)

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Stylet		MVVM Dialogs
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3	Mentions	1
955	Stars	619
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	7.6
24 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stylet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Stylet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.

Suggested WPF MVVM Frameworks
1 project | /r/csharp | 13 Jan 2023

Same here. Caliburn.Micro is dead though: https://caliburnmicro.com/announcements/stepping-away. For more recent projects I used Stylet: https://github.com/canton7/Stylet
Help needed when applying clean MVVM pattern in WPF
2 projects | /r/csharp | 31 Mar 2022

Or you can use something like Stylet which is kinda based on Caliburn.Micro.
What is the best MVVM for WPF?
5 projects | /r/csharp | 31 May 2021

MVVM Dialogs

Posts with mentions or reviews of MVVM Dialogs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.

How to open a dialog in Avalonia/CommunityToolkit.MMVM?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 4 Apr 2023

No, this one is the one everyone recommends: https://github.com/FantasticFiasco/mvvm-dialogs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Stylet and MVVM Dialogs you can also consider the following projects:

Caliburn.Micro - A small, yet powerful framework, designed for building applications across all XAML platforms. Its strong support for MV* patterns will enable you to build your solution quickly, without the need to sacrifice code quality or testability.

ReactiveUI - An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.

Prism - Prism is a framework for building loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable XAML applications in WPF, Xamarin Forms, and Uno / Win UI Applications..

UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

MVVM Light Toolkit - The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Forms, Windows 10 UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows Phone.

Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

contact - Retryable HTTP client in Go.

WPF Application Framework (WAF) - Win Application Framework (WAF) is a lightweight Framework that helps you to create well structured XAML Applications.

MVVMCross - The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Android, iOS, MacCatalyst, macOS, tvOS, WPF, WinUI

Catel - An application development platform