Notes From the Team Room

I have an opening on the patterns & practices team for a developer. patterns & practices works towards helping those developing on the Microsoft platforms more successful.  We produce books, reference implements, and libraries that help people...

Brian Noyes (one of our esteemed advisors during Prism) is doing a Working with Prism 4 series. You should definitely check it out. This will be a multi-part series and the first installment is already up. It sounds like he'll be adjusting the content...

PluralSight and patterns & practices have worked together to provide to you a free, 3-hour online training course on Prism . This will be available in a free format for a limited time, from November 12th, 2011 through November14th, 2011. If you...

I have an opening on the patterns & practices team for a developer. Patterns & practices works towards helping those developing on the Microsoft platforms more successful.  We produce books, reference implements, and libraries that help people...

I’ve had a couple people ping me about how to use the MEF CompositionInitializer with Prism 4 in Silverlight as well as how to use multiple, remotely downloaded Prism modules with MEF.  I’ve put together a sample that shows both these things, you...

David Platt of Rolling Thunder Computing, is doing a 3-day online Prism class this Nov 8-10.  He has some early bird pricing until the end of the month.  Find out more details here: www.programprism.com . He’s always a treat to listen and learn...

The updates to the Prism source outlined here , have been packaged as downloadable release on Codeplex. This is largely the same code, with these additional items: Added the Quickstarts and Acceptance test projects back in.  These are the same as...

We’re getting started with our Prism v4 work, but we have received a number of inquiries regarding updating the source to use Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4.0.  To help those interested in using Prism with these latest releases, we’ve updated the source...

Enterprise Library 5.0 is now out.  You can read more on Grigori’s post .  If you just can’t possibly wait you can also get bits from MSDN . Enjoy and be sure to give us feedback on the EntLib Codeplex site .

Release candidates of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions for Dev10 have been posted to the Visual Studio Gallery.  Check out this post for more details.

We’ve released an update to Prism (v 2.1) that refreshes the bits for SL 3.0.  You can find the updated MSDN download here . Most of the changes to this release are minor: Projects refreshed to target SL 3.0 The DelegateCommand and CompositeCommand...

Patterns & Practices is hosting a pre-conference workshop on patterns of parallel computing.  If you are attending, thinking of attending, or are intending to be convinced and then attend, check out what they’re planning to cover and provide...

Erik Mork has put together a nice series of posts and web casts as an introduction to Prism for Silverlight.  Here is what he has available: Videos Intro to Silverlight Prism - http://development-guides.silverbaylabs.org/Video/Silverlight-Prism Testing...

The Enterprise Library team has been hard at work on some of our initial stories. One of the bigger initial stories is what we’ve affectionately call ARC01. I know, very descriptive, so let me explain a bit of what this is about. The Doublemint Twins...

If you have looked at, thought about, dreamed about, forgotten about then suddenly remembered, used, or abused the Composite Application Guidance for WPF or Silverlight, please take our recently released poll to let us know how it has been working for...

Grigori Melnik has posted a survey on features for Enterprise Library v5.  Please take a look and vote on your favorite features.

Many have asked for a Visual Basic version of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (aka Prism v2).  We are pleased to offer the Hands-On Labs and Quickstarts in Visual Basic.  While the Composite Application Library is...

Erwin has posted on building an Outlook style application .  He shows a number of nice features in this that you might find interesting, particularly the UseCaseControllers and the ViewToRegionBinder. See his post to find out more.

The final two parts are available for the webcast Erwin and I were working on, links to the complete series are available below.  This web cast has 4 short videos on building a search aggregator composite application using the Prism library. ...

The second web cast on building our Prism application is now available on Channel 9. Erwin van der Valk and I are building a sample Silverlight Prism application to aggregate Digg and Twitters searches.  It will look something like the picture below...

We’ve refreshed the Prism V2 release bits on MSDN due to a couple issues we found and decided were worth updating the bits. The first problem related to how regions worked with the TabControl.  In Prism V1, you could activate a view in a TabControl...

Erwin van der Valk and I have worked up a four part web cast on building a Prism application. The first of these has been posted to Channel 9, you can find it here . We kept these intentionally short, about 10-20 minutes, and centered around a single...

We are very proud to release the Composite Application Guidance for Silverlight and WPF (which we often refer to as Prism V2).  This release takes the composite story we developed for WPF and brings it to Silverlight.  Additionally, we have...

The latest Prism drop is out on Codeplex.  You should get it.  Right now. Dinner will wait.

The 9th drop is now available for Prism V2 and you can find it here .  We are approaching the end of the Prism V2 project, targeting mid-February for the final release.  So now’s a good time to download it and take a look. One of the big items...