Patterns and Practices

Composite Application Guidance, affectionately known as Prism, version 2 has been released.  Prism provides guidance and code that can help you build modular applications that can adapt to constant changing requirements. In this video, Blaine Wastell provides a quick overview and…

In this episode, Brian Noyes discusses strategies for building Silverlight business applications. Brian is an advisor working with the Patterns and Practices team on the current and future versions of Prism. John and Brian discuss what Prism is, when to use it, when not to use it, and…

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.…

Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in terms of datacenter energy efficiency is the code running on the servers that make up the cloud…

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 4.…

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 2. Visual…

As promised in our earlier post, here is the very first screen cast based on the most recent drop. This video gives you a quick tour of what is in the bi-weekly iteration drop from the p&p SharePoint Guidance v2.0 project.We released Drop 6 to our CodePlex project site on 3/27th.…

patterns & practices released SharePoint development guidance v1 back in November of last year. Check out this video for a brief overview and the patterns used.As you may know, we are working on the next version of the guidance which will cover: Enterprise Quality …

As we mentioned in our earlier post, we release a drop from our SharePoint Guidance project every two weeks which is the duration of our iteration. We released Drop 8 to our CodePlex project site on April 24th. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung guide you…

I am sure many of you are regular readers of MSDN Magazine. We are happy to announce the launch of a new "patterns & practices" column starting with the May 2009 issue. Alex Homer from the p&p team authors the first installment: You Can Depend On Patterns…