Thank you for the Minimalistic Forms Example. I found one particular problem with the current example.
It appears the ApplicationController is never registered with the Facade.
If you add the following code to the initilizeFacade() method in the ApplicationFacade class, then all is good.
26 protected override void initializeFacade()
27 {
28 base.initializeFacade();
29 registerCommand(ApplicationController.STARTUP, typeof(ApplicationController)); // <-- New Line
30 }