When someone leads with a quote from Ecclesiastes 3.1, you know some sort of change is about to be announced. Friday, 28 Oct 2011 will be my last day in Redmond, and unfortunately Microsoft and the patterns & practices team. My decision to leave...

The Microsoft patterns & practices team is excited to announce the release of Project Silk. Project Silk Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers Project Silk provides guidance for building maintainable cross-browser web applications that are...

The patterns & practices Web Guidance team released Drop 13 of Project Silk (7-13-2011) . The code changes for this release were minor. Video If you have not seen the Project Silk video check it out here . Chapters The following chapters are ready...

Project Silk from patterns & practices, provides guidance for building cross-browser Web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest Web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along...

Registration is now open for the  patterns & practices Prism , Unity , WPF, MVVM training event, 27-29 June in Boise, ID. All event information can be found on the registration page. Register:   http://prismboise-eorg.eventbrite.com/ In...

Save the dates for a 3 day patterns & practices Prism , Unity , WPF, MVVM training event, 27-29 June in Boise, ID. Join three Prism Team members Bob Brumfield (lead developer), Geoff Cox (developer), and myself (program manager) for an information...

Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser Web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest Web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern Web technologies such...

I have had several requests to demonstrate how to use Unity with Prism 4 Region Navigation and the Silverlight Frame Navigation framework. The primary purpose of this blog post is to provide an example of using Unity for dependency resolution when...

I have had inquiries from developers asking how to implement cancelling a navigation request when using Prism Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation. This is a follow up blog post to Integrating Prism v4 Region Navigation with Silverlight...

The Microsoft patterns & practices team has just started a new web guidance project that will run from now until Apr 2011. p & p projects are community driven.  This is your initial opportunity to feed into the web guidance project. We very...

This is an excerpt from, In the Box – MVVM Training that is posted on the Visual Studio Gallery. Have a great day, Karl The gold standard for learning and describing design patterns is the book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software...

  The Microsoft patterns & practices team is excited to announce the release of: Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4 Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible...

Updated 11/15/2010. Symposium Video Presentations Model-View-ViewModel Pattern Primer (uses the In the Box below training) Prism v4 Navigation in a Line of Business Application (source code attached to this post at the bottom) In the...

Prism v4 Drop 10 was published on 14 October 2010. This drop is code complete with several new documentation chapters such as Model-View-ViewModel, Composing the User Interface, and Extending Prism. Like Drop 9, this drop includes signed Prism binaries...

Updated 10/14/2010 This blog post was updated on 10/14/2010 and requires Prism 4 or later. The code download was updated and the Prismv4FrameRegionNavigation project, FrameRegionNavigationService was updated, adding support for the NavigationFailed and...

Updated on 10/14/2010 This blog post was updated on 11/8/2010 and requires Prism v4 Drop 10 or later. The code download was updated, the Region Navigation diagram was updated, along with adding the below Region.NavigationService.NavigationFailed...