Quite a few folks have asked for MEF versions of the Prism templates. I’m happy to announce that the Prism Template Pack has now been updated to include MEF (as well as Unity) templates.You can download the latest version of the template pack (version 1.4) from here [Updated Link]. You can read...

Prism regions make it easy to change the layout of views within an application. A region is a logical placeholder associated with a specific layout control. Displaying a view in a region causes the view to be added to the layout control. But because the region and the layout control are loosely coupled...

The updated version of the Prism Template Pack for Prism 4.0 is now available here ! The Prism 4.0 Template Pack contains Prism shell and module project templates and a quick-start solution template which creates a multi-project solution with a shell and two modules. All templates are available for both...

We are just about to officially kick off the Prism 4.0 project. As we’ve done for previous Prism projects, we’ve put together a short survey to try and get community input on the focus and direction of the project. You can find the survey here . One of the key questions that we’d like to get feedback...

Now that we have Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2010, as well as WPF and Silverlight 4.0, I’ve updated the Prism Templates so that you can more easily develop Prism applications that target these latest releases. The templates themselves are similar to those I released a while back – there...

We (meaning the Patterns & Practices Client Team) have have just published a post ( here ) on the P&P team blog that describes our plans for Prism. The post answers two of the most frequently asked questions that we get on Prism: Can I use Prism for WPF/Silverlight 4.0 development? What’s going...

As promised, I have updated the Prism Quick Start Kit and added a WPF quick-start solution and WPF project templates. You can download the latest release here . In the zip you’ll find four project templates (Shell and Module templates for WPF and Silverlight) and two quick-start solutions, one each for...

David Platt of Rolling Thunder has just announced another 3 day Prism training course to be held July 7th-9th. You can find all of the details here . It’s web delivered so you don’t even have to travel! It looks like it covers a lot of material – there’s a detailed syllabus here – from the basic goals...

We just posted a refresh to the Prism 2.0 bits. You can download the latest release from the same location on MSDN here . The recent release of the GDR update to Silverlight 2.0 (which takes Silverlight from version 2.0.31005 to version 2.0.40115) causes a problem when building the Composite.Silverlight...

WooHoo! Prism 2.0 is done and is now live on MSDN! You can access the Prism 2.0 documentation here , and download the code from here . Prism is a library of patterns that help you build robust, flexible and modular WPF and Silverlight applications. These patterns also support unit testing, separation...

Implementing a Master-Detail style UI with the CollectionViewModel I described in my previous post is pretty easy. With a selector control bound to a CollectionViewModel as shown in my previous post, you just need to add a content control to the View and bind its Content property to the current item...

In this post, I'm going to describe an implementation of ICollectionView for Silverlight that allows you to add sorting, filtering, grouping and selection tracking to any Selector based control (such as ListBox or ComboBox). To demonstrate the implementation, I’ve built a sample application that...

The ViewModel pattern (more formally called the Model-View-ViewModel pattern, but that’s way too long winded and I’m lazy) is an increasingly popular pattern with WPF and Silverlight developers. This is largely due to its simplicity and flexibility and its inherent support in WPF and Silverlight...

Figuring out the right name for something is one of the hardest things in software development. There is a lot to a name – the name conveys the concept; get the wrong name and you convey the wrong concept, leading to much confusion, developer irritation and mental pain. We’re currently working on...

Well here I am in sunny LA at the PDC. At least I assume it's sunny, not been outside all day. Been too busy 'capturing the brain power' or something... No doubt by the time I post this you'll have heard something about Azure. Apart from being a rather nice shade of blue it's the name of the new Microsoft...

Woo Hoo! We just released the first drop of Prism 2.0 on our CodePlex site here . For this first iteration we've focused solely on the "multi-targeting" aspects of Prism (UI composition and modularity support will follow soon though). By multi-targeting we mean the ability to build applications...

Patterns & practices alumni Glenn Block has been busy writing and talking about Prism 1.0 recently: First up, he and Brian Noyes recorded an interview with those nice Dot Net Rock chaps at TechEd which just got posted here . Looking forward to listening to that once it shows up on my Zune... And...

For the last couple of weeks we've been busy prototyping & spiking, talking to customers and partners and generally gearing up for Prism 2.0. Yesterday we held our internal Vision/Scope kick-off meeting and so I'm happy to report that the Prism 2.0 project is now officially off the launching pad...