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 RI updated to demonstrate MVVM throughout Navigation...

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 , Prism 4.0 will focus on: Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM...

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 and don’t forgot to tell your friends to take...

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 for WPF 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0, we will also ensure...

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? What’s in Prism 4.0 Prism 2.1 was tested...

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 4.0 as it will support .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4. In...

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 is why we created a discussion topic on Codeplex...

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-up for the class.

We just posted a new version of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight ( Prism 2.1 ) to run on Silverlight 3.0. This minor update includes: Projects refreshed to target Silverlight 3.0 Changes in DelegateCommand and CompositeCommand to no longer hold on to CanExecuteChange handlers...

Over the past several months, I have been asked who is using Prism. While I know lots of customers that are successfully using Prism, I cannot share their names. The good news is I have a number of customer quotes that I can share based upon a study from Nucleus Research and I also can share that Fit...

David Starr and Scott Nichols of Elegant Code recently interviewed Bob and I regarding Prism 2.0 (aka Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight). Check it out for a good walk through of Prism, the differences between Prism 1.0 and Prism 2.0, and the differences between CAB and Prism.

David Platt from Rolling Thunder is offering a training course on Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight on May 18 – 20. David provides training for both Prism and CAB/Smart Client Software Factory. Check it out if you are looking for training. As I mentioned in a previous blog post we...

We (the patterns & practices client team) need you to take the Prism survey to tell us how we are doing. If you have evaluated or used the Composite Application Guidance for either WPF or Silverlight, go take the survey now. The survey is less than 20 questions and should take less than 10 minutes...

We had a number of customers ask for Visual Basic Versions of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight. As Bob stated in his blog, we are excited to announce that QuickStarts and How To’s are now in Visual Basic. This provides guidance of how to use Visual Basic with the Composite Application...

After we published the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 release, we discovered that the Composite Application Library (CAL) test projects do not build successfully with the new Silverlight version 2.0.40115.00 (GDR1) so we decided to fix this issue. For details on...

A number of customers have asked about the future of the Web Client Software Factory. I want to announce that we are starting to plan for the next release of the Web Client Software Factory. We plan to start the project in the spring of 2009 and plan to deliver this next version with Visual Studio 2010...

Erwin Van Der Valk posted a blog entr y on the latest Prism 2.0 drop . You should go check it out. Over the last few weeks, I have received feedback asking why we do not have the entire prism library available for Silverlight. The answer to this is we are in the progress of completing the effort. Similar...

The patterns & practices team just published 6 new releases in the last two weeks. Ajoy discusses the releases on his blog . The new releases include: Enterprise Library v4.1 Unity Application Block v1.2 Distributed Agile Development white paper and Agile showcase Application Architecture Guide v2...

Our Composite UI Application Block (CAB) customers have been asking for comparison documentation between CAB to Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism). You can download the guidance from here . This documentation helps you understand the difference between the libraries to help you plan your...

We are excited to announce that David Platt is now offering an online training class on Composite Application Library (CAL) on October 1st through 3rd. You can sign-up here . As background, David has successfully training many customers on the Composite UI Application Block which he has offered for several...

In my previous post , I mentioned that we planned on creating guidance for Composite Silverlight applications. David Hill just blogged on our plans for Prism 2.0. From this survey we heard you wanted guidance on: Multi-targeting controller, presenters, services, and models for both Silverlight and WPF...

We are the planning phase to create a composite library for Silverlight. We need your help to prioritize the requirements for this new guidance. Here is a link to the survey . Once we complete the vision/scope for the project, we will post the vision/scope to CodePlex so stay tuned.

Check our Francis Cheung's blog posts on loosely couple communication for composite WPF applications. Francis discusses three mechanisms for loosely coupled communication: Shared Services Commanding Event Aggregation Francis (did most of the work) and I identified some guidelines on when...

The Prism project is making good progress toward our first release at the end of June..ish. If you want to track our progress for the past iterations, check out the Releases page on Codeplex. In the current drop, we created: New Event Aggregation QuickStart New Elements added to Prism to support Event...