Blaine Wastell - patterns & practices client architecture guidance

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...

This blog post discusses our plans for Prism to run on .NET 4.5 and our plans to create guidance for Windows 8 Line of Business (LOB) apps. Prism for Windows 8 is now released. Read about it on my blog post or see a demo of Prism on Channel 9. Prism...

We are excited that you can now download the SCSF - May 2007 release . The new release provides support for .NET 3.0. The release is propagating to the download servers and should be available when you read this. If not, be patient and try a little later...

After lots of hard work by the team, advisors, and product group we decided it would be best to upstage the election today by releasing the SharePoint Guidance. Given the importance of the guidance, we are confident that everyone will be more excited...

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...

After further ado, we finally shipped the Web Client Software Factory . Glenn and Michael describe what is in the new release. I want to highlight a couple of things from the release. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Support. This factory supports Visual...

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...

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...

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...

The Client Team at patterns & practices is planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. As usual, we need your feedback on the potential scope for this update. The current plan includes both new...

The WCSF June 2007 Release Candidate is now available on Codeplex. For instructions on installing the factory go here . The June 2007 release of the Web Client Software Factory is an update to the January 2007 release and contains the following changes...

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...

SCSF is almost ready to release on the web. It should be out in the next couple of days. It look a little longer than originally planned. We spent more time working on the usability of the offline capabilities. SCSF will include Enterprise Library...

We are planning on shipping a new version of the Web Client Software Factory in January or February 2008. The scope for this new version includes: bundles on CodePlex which include: Composite Web Client Automation Composite Web Client Library Contextual...

In response to customer requests, we just published the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha release to CodePlex. As I mentioned in a previous blog we are close to finishing this release. The current plan is to go out with EntLib 3.1 support...

Does the patterns & practices client team listen to the community? It is easy for someone in our position to fall into the "ivory tower" trap and not listen to customers. Within patterns & practices we work hard at listening to the community when...

We are excited to announce that the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (Prism 2.0) is live. You can download the release from here . The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows...

In a previous post , I talked about starting a new project to create SharePoint guidance. We heard you need guidance to help with: Unit testing and debugging Packaging and deployment Setting up a team development environment Unclear which SharePoint features...

I lived in Chicago for 15 years and we had a saying when it came time to vote for public officials - vote early and often. Now that Enterprise Library 3.0 has shipped - see Tom Hollander's blog , we have a number of customers asking for WCSF support for...

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...

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...

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...

Last month the patterns & practices team had a great workshop with a number of customers. (OK, I am a little biased). A number of customers asked us to post the workshop materials so they could go through the workshop themselves. So in response...

The p&p Web Client team has now shipped the Contextual AutoComplete , Validation , Composite Web Client Library , Composite Web Client Automation , and Responsive Composite Web Client Reference Implementation Guidance Bundles. Both Glenn and Mike...

As I was creating the home page for the new Reference Implementation that we just shipped, I realized that we demonstrate how to solve a number of technical challenges . I want to highlight these to give you an idea of the richness of our most current...