Prism v2 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
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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 demonstrates a Silverlight and WPF application using shared code.
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Thanks guys.
Can't wait to use it in future projects!
The MVVM stuff with Karl [Shiftlett] is cool, but this even more so?
Why is it that Patterns and Practices call this "Model View Presenter" but Josh Smith etc. go with Model View View Model, how about just calling it one thing please guys?
"Unlike the Presenter in MVP, a ViewModel does not need a reference to a view"
http://www.colaab.com
And I've run into many of the problems that the Prism release seeks to address and if you're looking at building complex RIAs using Silverlight you could do a lot worse than using it as a starting point.
There's also a good article on MVVM in Silverlight in this months MSDN Magazine:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458800.aspx
Thanks,
Bob
For demo, please check out these four screen casts:
Screen cast 1 of 4 - Creating a shell and modules
Screen cast 2 of 4 - Visual Composition
Screen cast 3 of 4 - Implementing views and services
Screen cast 4 of 4 - Decoupled Communication
What I would like to see is similar tutorials using Expression Blend 2/3 in conjunction with PRISM setup. This is what I am interested in enterrprise applications at work. What would be interested is steps in making a PRISM based User interface from ground up using Blend that once done could be handled off to staff of Services API developers to developed the services behind the scene. Ideally it would be nice if all interface development on client side will be done in Blend and API done using Visual Studio 2008.
I am also be interested if anything in Prism will allow the modules to be in seperate domains - this is so if one screen in application. crashes it does not crash the reset of applications. This may not be the intent of PRISM. Is it invision to have multiple application using same shell - or should each application have its own shell.
Also on a older designed system, I am wounder from the PRISM folks if there is any plans for tutorial for migrating the older Winforms CAB applications to PRISM - it would be nice to have this out there also for our needs.
I recently made a prototype for the project I am working that is based on FamilyShow source, which I believe is very similar to MVVM stuff and planning on going back through the prototype with PRISM concepts - but ideal I would like Expression Blend for designing the UI parts of projects.
Another concern that I have with projects is sperating the User Interface from the services in the solution. Any thoughts on your designed people on this side would also be useful.
Anyway thanks for tutorial and keep it coming
Hi guys - I am trying to watch the video in high quality (with the normal quality ones, you can't read any code), but the links don't work. Could this be fixed? Thank!
Hi All,
I am trying to make Shell as UserControl in WPF Composite application. I Started by modifying the Quickstart app: "Quickstarts\UI Composition\ViewDiscovery". I made "UIComposition.Desktop.csproj" a UserControl class library with Shell.xaml as UserControl. Created another WPFApplication to host the Shell. Added the following code in App.xaml.cs:
protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
{
base.OnStartup(e);
Bootstrapper bootStrapper = new Bootstrapper();
bootStrapper.Run();
// Get ShellContainer from IOC
IUnityContainer container = bootStrapper.Container;
var shellElement = container.Resolve<Shell>();
ShellContainer win = new ShellContainer();
// Add the ShellContainer UserControl to the main window
win.mygrid.Children.Add(shellElement);
win.Show();
}
The form shows up with the shell but when I click on the employee it doesn't show the details view. Please help!!! If any body has tried this.
Thanks & Regards,
Vishal.
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