patterns & practices started working on Prism 4.1 which will target Silverlight 5 and items requested on Codeplex . The current plan is to ship the release in January. Additionally, we plan to ship Prism 4.5 after .NET 4.5 is released. Prism 4.5 will...

Brian Noyes, a long time Prism advisor is creating Working with Prism 4 Series. You should check it out as Brian is a good writer and trainer with lots of successful customers using Prism. This will be a multi-part series and the first installment is...

Check out PluralSight’s free offer for 3 hours of online Prism training from November 12 – 14. The course will help you learn how to design and build WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone Applications using Prism 4.0. The course covers: Getting Started...

Yesterday we published the CTP for Prism 4.0 . In my previous blog , I called this phase I. Phase I provides guidance on MVVM and using MEF for modularity. As I mentioned in this blog, for phase II we will consider the following for its scope: Stock Trader...

The team is hard at work on Prism 4.0 which will run on .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4. We just posted the second drop on Codeplex. We are in the early stages so we really appreciate your feedback – both good and bad. As I previously announced in my blog...

I just posted an updated version to Codeplex of the Web Client Guidance now called Developing Web App: Building Responsive Modular Web Applications . This version includes updated documentation with graphics and links to other topics. We decided to delay...

As I mentioned in my blog post on Prism 4.0 we will publish a survey asking for your feedback on Prism 4.0. The Prism 4.0 survey just went live and we need you to help us prioritize the potential features for this release. So hurry up and take the survey...

We just published a beta version of the Web Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2010 on Codeplex. Go check it out. This uses the new version of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT). GAX and GAT can be downloaded...

We just published a beta version of the Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2010 on Codeplex. Go check it out. This uses the new version of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT). GAX and GAT can be...

Last week we announced our plans for Prism 4.0 on patterns & practices blog , David Hill’s blog , and my blog . A number of you asked a follow-up question if Prism 4.0 will support Unity 2.0. The answer is yes? When we publish the interim release...

We received a number of questions on Codeplex asking us whether the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) will support ASP.NET MVC and patterns & practices Unity. As I mentioned in a previous blog post , we decided to update the existing version of the...

p&p needs your feedback! We plan to release the Web Client Guidance around Dev10 launch. This guidance will help customers create rich, responsive, modular Web applications. We are looking for your input before the final release in early April to...

The patterns & practices Client Team just published a blog post on the p&p team blog that describes our plans for Prism vNext. The post answers two questions that we get with regards to Prism: Can I use Prism with WPF/Silverlight development...

Simon Ince recently posted some very good blog posts on View Models in MVC , Generic or Specific Routes , and Packing UI Components in MVC . These are some of the topics that we are covering in the Web Client Guidance project on http://webclientguidance...

We just posted the most recent drop of the Web Client Guidance on Codeplex . At this point we are making fewer changes to the code and focusing more on the documentation. Below is the change log for the drop. The next drop we will refine our guidance...

The Web Client Guidance Drop #6 is available on Codeplex. Based upon feedback, we simplified the reference implementation by moving the Friends and MyLibrary projects into the main project. The feedback we received was that modular development is more...

I am getting lots of questions regarding Prism 4.0 (Composite Application Guidance for…). We will start working on this project as soon as the Web Client Guidance ships. So in preparation, we are now starting to gather requirements. I just created a discussion...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post , we significantly upgraded the skin of the Reference Implementation in the current drop - so go check it out and give us your thoughts.     Below are more details on what has changed since the last drop...

We were in the holiday spirit last week so we created a drop of the Web Client Guidance   - so go check it out. The goal of the drop was to reduce the technical debt we had for the project. We need you to help us figure out what other technical debt...

David Hill has a recent blog post that discusses how Prism 4.0 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) and MEF will work together. You might be thinking what happened to Prism 3.0. We decided to call the next version of Prism to be 4...

Francis posted a question on Codeplex on how to partition controllers in our SongsController. Let us know your thoughts. He is asking how much functionality should be in the controller? Should it have searching, rating, and reviews?

Below are the changes for our 3rd pubic drop of the Web Client Guidance . I would like feedback on two topics: WebForms: Top Ten Tasks for Improving Responsiveness (see documentation). Do we have the right questions? What additional questions should we...

Last week we posted our 2nd public drop for the Web Client Guidance project . We have over 1000 downloads of our first two drops which is great. We now need to your thoughts on how we are addressing the challenges of responsiveness and modularity which...

The first public drop of Web Client Guidance is available on http://webclientguidance.codeplex.com . As I mentioned in a previous blog , patterns & practices will have two Web deliverables in 2010. Port of the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) to...

I have been asked recently where to find training on Prism. The good news is David Platt is offering another Prism Class from January 11 through January 14, 2010 (I cannot believe that I am writing 2010). You can go to www.programprism.com to get signed...