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The Breadcrumb Navigation Pattern
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, Read More...
Prism Quick Start Kit Update
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) Read More...
Prism Quick Start Kit
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 Read More...
ViewModel and Dependency Injection
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 Read More...
Prism 2.0 Refresh
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 Read More...
Prism 2.0 Is Live!
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 Read More...
Master-Detail With CollectionViewModel
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 Read More...
The ViewModel Pattern
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 Read More...
UI Composition Patterns
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 Read More...
Tales From The PDC - Day 1
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 Read More...
Prism 2.0 - First Drop
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 Read More...
Hello Prism 2.0!
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 Read More...
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