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Monday, February 23, 2009 4:28 AM

Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator)

The title probably sounds like an oxymoron, but it is not. Recently there was a question on our CodePlex forums from Denis Vuyka about whether or not MEF supports anything like EventBroker for pub/sub type communication. Asking such a question makes a
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): MefEventWiring.zip
Monday, October 20, 2008 7:54 AM

Finding the right level of coupling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We knew
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:07 AM

More MEF Samples and launch of MEF contrib.

The past few weeks, the momentum has picked up around samples using MEF. In my last post I mentioned a few. Now today two great posts. First, Brad A (my awesome boss) has gone and done a really nice MEF 101 post . Kudos to Brad for finding the time out
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:25 PM

MSDN Article on "Prism" went to press

A few months ago I wrote an MSDN article on the new Composite Application Guidance (which will always be Prism to me :) ) which was just published. In the article I talk about Composite Applications in WPF in general, several design patterns in play,
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:34 AM

Building Composite apps with Silverlight

Blaine and my old team are at it again , and this time it's for Silverlight . If you are building composite applications in Silverlight, they need you! Head on over  and take this quick survey to help them to prioritize on where to focus for the
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:37 AM

Prism, MEF and DI oh my

A few weeks ago I had a chance to chance to chat with the gang over at  Herding Code on all of the above. I was in a particularly talkative mood after coming from a full day of presenting at Tech-Ready, so I'll warn you that there might be some rambling.
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Friday, August 08, 2008 10:16 PM

Composite Application Guidance Talk at Tech-Ed

Several months ago, Brian Noyes and I delivered a talk on Composite App Guidance AKA Prism at Tech-Ed USA. In the talk we discuss the essentials of Prism and do a bunch of demonstrations (well Brian did) of how to use it's various components. The talk
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): http://cid-92d0758f33773822.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Tech-Ed/Composite%20Application%20Guidance.pptx
Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:17 AM

Composite Application Guidance is Live

Before I go any further, we shipped! :-) Links: Composite Application Guidance Landing Page (will be at http://msdn.microsoft.com/compositewpf ) Composite Application Guidance What's in the box Here's an overview of what you'll find At the core is the
Posted by Glenn Block | 7 Comments
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:19 AM

Composite Application Guidance - What is it?

In the development of the Composite Application Guidance one area that we have labored intensely was around documentation. Documentation was so high on our priority list, that we deliberately reduced the number of bells and whistles in order to allow
Posted by Glenn Block | 6 Comments
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:52 PM

How Prism supports using multiple IOC containers

Today we received the following question / comment on our forums around our strategy for supporting multiple containers in Prism. This is something that I believe is on the minds of other folks using Prism. Below is a portion of the thread which you can
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 10:02 PM

Talking about Prism with InfoQ

Recently at the ALT.NET Summit, I got a chance to sit down with Greg Young to discuss the work we've been doing in our new Composite Application Guidance (Prism). In the interview we talk about the guidance, what technical and architectural challenges
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 9:57 AM

Composite Application Guidance, time to ship

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckaroli/1779555530/ The last time I did one of these posts, I was off on how close we were, by about a month. Well this time that's not the case. At the end of last week we dropped an RC for Composite Application Guidance
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:28 AM

Prism vs Framework XXX

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/288925731/ There's been a bunch of talk on the net comparing Prism to other frameworks that exist. In many cases comparisons are being made based on feature parity and such. I think it's important to make the distinction
Posted by Glenn Block | 4 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:23 PM

Brian Noyes thoughts on Prism

Brian Noyes from IDesign is one of the great folks helping us in the design and development of Prism. Brian brings a breadth of experience with WPF, and has worked significantly with CAB. He also was the author of the click-once integration pieces in
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:54 AM

'Prism' launches on CodePlex

Some time ago we announced that patterns & practices was going to be delivering a new set of guidance for building composite applications in WPF. A lot has happened since then, least of which is coming up with a new codename "Prism". Just last week
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
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