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The Breadcrumb Navigation pattern provides a visual representation of the path the user took as they navigated to a particular state in an application. It provides context so the user can see where they are logically within the application structure,
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The Application Architecture Guide 2 nd Edition is finally available! The complete guide is hosted on MSDN here . We’ve sent the guide off to MS Press for printing, so the printed version should be available from your favorite bookstore soon. Since the
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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)
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Building applications from scratch starting from a blank page or screen in Visual Studio is a frustrating, time consuming and intimidating task. Instead, most developers like to start with a working application that they can modify, tweak and extend to
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In my last post – Silverlight Navigation Part 3 – I outlined a mechanism whereby you could navigate to a View and have the application create and wire up the associated ViewModel automatically. I also showed the inverse of this, where you could navigate
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This last month has been what you might call crazy. Within the space of a couple of weeks we have had no less than 6 major releases in P&P! We're a fairly small team, but we follow an agile process for all of our projects which enables us to scale
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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
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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
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Those of you who remember ye olde days of yore when .NET 1.0 and 1.1 were the latest and greatest thing may also remember the Patterns and Practices Application Architecture Guide . It was published waaay back in December 2002, and it has consistently
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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
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