Prism & Silverlight: Part 1 - Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity

Is the lack of audio planned? I mean, I don't mind but this looks somehow strange without audio?

Great video! Very nice to see good software design practices demonstrated in an easy-to-learn video. I was wondering what screen capture software you use to make these?

Interesting will have to view this later and see if it helps.

from my view right now we have a rainstorm of bits coming out and no really clear directions.

RIA

WCF

ASMX

ADO Entitiy framwork

MVVM

linq to this that and the other....

and

ASP.NET MVC

just to name the first few that come to mind

and then add Azure (sp?)  and prism and unity

Ah we need some UNITY in a really big way right now.....

while beeing able to chose is mostly a good thing when you have so many and so little idea which ones to spend time with it's hard to

get focus on any one thing.

also after the way linq to SQL has been sidelined it now makes me ask what other cool stuff that's in the works today will be droped next year?  it's very very frustrating to try and pick the winner like it's a lotto when it's my time and money and my rep on the line.

There should definitely be audio ... I haven't had any problems.

Yeah, just noticed, on the headphones earlier on I couldn't here the audio at all. Now I can hear it but it is really silent I found this to be an issue across c9 in general lately. Anyway, this looks like a great series, gonna have a late night tonight!

Wow, nice, hey I like your wallpapers, care to share them? Looks pretty cool!

Hmmmm, all the ipod versions are the same, is that intentional?

This is the good stuff.  I've previously used Prism in conjunction with Unity to create composite WPF clients in this manner, but it's useful to see a run through of the whole process (disclaimer .. I watched the first 40 minutes or so .. will continue with it tonight).  It's tackled at a refreshingly rapid pace whilst remaining clear and entirely comprehensible too.  Bravo.

Gah! I keep getting MEDIA FAILURE errors as it loads

Wonderful videos Mike.  The 'live coding' style of presentation works far better for me than a cut and paste, pre-packaged format that seems to be all too common.  Keep up the good work!

Looks great Mike - many thanks - looking forward to watching these on my trip to Belfast this week.

On a download point - for those trying the zune format download - none worked for me; the Zune player complained that all the files were corrupted (using the latest Zune software); download the wmv files instead which worked fine (but were bigger).

Where do I get the lifetime back, I spent on this video ? ;o) I didn't expect a Webcast that has nothing at all to do with unity ...

How can I download it and watch it on the train or plane?

Thx

Yaz

The audio did not work in VLC for me, but did work in WMP 11 (fyi, I have the Expression 3 suite installed...)

Thanks for this Mike. It was the series that got me from reading about to using PRISM  & MVVM.

The journey from monolithic to composite app matches a battle we've had at Pentagon and this has helped us loads in pulling all the technical strands together.

A brilliant learning resource. Once again, thanks.

Audio is there.  Definitely.

You are a great teacher, It is really a great series. I am right now in #6. and it has helped me a lot to understand prism. Thanks a lot.

Please do update (or create new) videos with the latest Prism build.

Thank you.

viron

Hi Mike,

can you pplease provide complete set of code from begining till end. I liked your way of explaining the modular apporach.

thanks

Mike,

This is the best explanation that I could find to learn about Prism and Unity. Thank you for all your effort and the great tutorials you have posted. 

Wow!  What a wonderful, concise and very fluid setup...  Not understanding why I would want to use Unity at the beginning of this video, I'm now seeing it's value!  Great Job!  Very Professional.  Wish you were my prof in university!

Winston Pang mentioned that all of the iPod versions were the same.  Actually, they are all different, but when imported the MP4 files into iTunes they all have the same title which makes it difficult to determine the order in which to watch them.  I compared the times from the web versions and changed the titles accordingly and then re-synced to my iPad.
That aside, I believe that these are excellent sessions.  I really appreciate that these start at a very basic level and slowly bring the user into the actual goal of the presentation.  I have already recommended this to my co-workers.
Stephen

Hi Mike,

Really Great explanation!! I was trying my implementation in the same way, but there is some problem while configure the container from App.config file, there is "The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)" error shown at run time. However the references are accurate. Can you please explain more about the unity container app.config file?

Thanks!
Santosh Dubey

I am not able to load video since 30 minutes, can anybody tell me what is the issue?

Thanks

Mike, thank you so much for these videos - they've been immensely helpful to me so far. However, I am facing a problem with your sample and I was wondering if you could share your thoughts with me on that:

At the end of your 3rd video "Modularity with Prism", the code should be divided into modules and the Program.cs should run them with the manager. I am fairly sure that my code matches yours, but upon debugging the app, the loading of the first module CalculatorCommandParsingModule throws an exception with the message:
"An exception occurred while initializing module 'Parsing'.
- The exception message was: Could not load file or assembly 'Interfaces, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."
Now, interfaces is referenced from the CalculatorCommandParsing library and everything build with no error.

Any ideas?
Thank you very very much.

Amazing presentation and structuring... Great Job altogether...

Mike

Fantastic videos. I really learnt a lot more faster with the live code presentation.

Thanks a ton!!!!

Jignesh