Creating a modular application using Prism V2 - Screencast 1/4 : Creating a shell and modules | akMSFT

In this 4 part series, Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk from patterns and practices shows you how to build a modular application using the recently released Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 (also known as Prism V2).

Part 1. Creating a shell and modules

In this screencast, you will see how to divide an application into modular pieces and how to recombine them again in a shell.

For Part 2 of 4: Visual Composition

Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk are both Software Development Engineers at Microsoft patterns & practices and have both worked on the Prism V2 project.

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vesuvius Count Orlock

Feb 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM

I will be keeping my eyes out for the other three parts, thank you P&P!
akMSFT

Feb 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM

vesuvius,
You are welcome. I will be posting the other 3 screencasts this week.
DCMonkey What?!?

Feb 25, 2009 at 2:38 AM

There's something horribly wrong with the audio.
akMSFT

Feb 25, 2009 at 9:52 AM

All,

I apologize for the audio issue. Working on fixing it right now. I will upload a new file shortly.

thanks
akMSFT

Feb 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM

All,

I am working on getting the video file updated to fix the audio issue. In the meantime, please use the WMV (High) file from here: http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/6/8/6/8/5/4/PrismV2Screencast1_2MB_ch9.wmv. The audio quality is much better in this version. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks
akMSFT

Feb 25, 2009 at 5:26 PM

New video is online now. Audio issue is taken care. Thanks
DqvY

Feb 25, 2009 at 10:35 PM

Hi,

Well done for these screencats. The model is very interesting, but it is a bit complex to understand.
Can you give us your source code after each step.

Thank you P&P team!
bobbrum

Feb 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM

I will be posting, at least the final code, and if I can, I'll see if I can break down the code into the start/end of each module so people can follow along. I'll post here where I end up placing that code.
bobbrum

Feb 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM

I've posted the final source code for this series to the Codeplex site.
Rachida

Feb 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM

Thanks so much for these tutorials.
Keep the good work
Rachida

Feb 28, 2009 at 7:54 PM

I downloded the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - Feb 2009 But I can't find this dll :
Releasemicrosoft.practices.composite.dll?
What I 'm missing thanks.
bobbrum

Mar 01, 2009 at 10:06 AM

Rachida,

We did not release the Composite Application Library in a binary format, just source, so you'll need to compile them yourself.

-b
Rachida

Mar 01, 2009 at 11:14 AM

I just watched the first video, I loved it. I found out how to get the the Composite Application Library.
Thanks for the good work.
Rachida
rcbapb

Jun 24, 2009 at 12:20 PM

Hi guys - the high quality links do not work. Could this be fixed? Thanks!
brianstewey

Jul 25, 2009 at 4:06 AM

At 3:56 how did you make Visual Studio resolve which using reference the UnityBootStrapper class required?

EDIT: Scrap that I found out how do do it. Cheers
TomKlein

Aug 27, 2009 at 7:23 AM

Awesome tutorials, spend all day finding small bits and pieces untill I stumbled onto this and it put it all together and more.
chinni

Oct 29, 2009 at 2:18 PM

Thanks a lot for posting videos and code.

Hi i am working on prism2 and trying to divide shell into region and it working fine with the following code:

Grid >

<Grid.RowDefinitions>  <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>   <RowDefinition Height="*"/>  </Grid.RowDefinitions>

<basics:TabControl Regions:RegionManager.RegionName="ResultsRegion" Grid.Row="1" Margin="3"/>

But when i want to change these (content or tabcontrols) to canvas ,grid or stackpanel im getting RegionCreationException was unhandled by user code error.

Same error when i tried directly to apply Regions to RowDefinition. ERROR::::(RegionCreationException was unhandled by user code)

Is there any  conditions to divide shell and assign Control Or Panels to the regions of shell.

Thanks
al514

Feb 07, 2010 at 11:23 AM

why is the audio/video quality horrible?
MaidenDotNet Who Dares Wins...

Aug 06, 2010 at 11:53 AM

I am confused as to the last part of the presentation where you used category.TypeOf(DiggModule) and make a reference you say shouldn't really be made? Demos and training can sometimes be difficult for people who are really trying to make their code better and more flexible by using Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control, etc. However, then you will see things in demos which completely contradict what you have learned. Just once, I would like to read an article or see a demo where no compromises are made so I can really see what it's like to follow all of these practices.

I understand that sometimes these things are done for various reasons and mean no criticism of your demo. I just want you to know that for people who are not yet familiar with everything yet, it can be frustrating and confusing since you never get to see an example that is in complete agreement with what is being taught.
HarishSuhanda Harish Suhanda

Sep 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM

None of the videos in this section are working. I am not able to download nor I am able to view them. Please fix it.