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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
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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 | 4 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
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:19 PM

StockTrader RI using Castle Windsor

I am supposed to be working an article, but couldn't resist posting on this one. Our most recent Prism drop (now called Composite Application Guidance) includes a spike we did where we converted our reference app to use Castle Windsor. It was a pretty
Posted by Glenn Block | 4 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:28 AM

Loosely coupled communication - Prism style

Francis has been a busy man lately on his blog with a series of posts on the various loosely coupled communication patterns and mechanisms we use in Prism. He gives a great overview of what they are and in which situations they are applied within our
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:33 AM

Prism, CAB, and WinForms futures

On the forums , Bil asked the questions below. Just wondering about guidance here. I have clients who are not ready or able to move to 3.5/VS2008 yet but need to start developing new Smart Client applications. They're also not ready to move to WPF as
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:37 PM

WPF, from this to that..Wow!

A few weeks ago, our reference implementation for Prism looked like this. Early on we decided that we needed the RI to have a better look in feel so that it delivered a more real world WPF experience. We hired a design firm to create XAML proofs based
Posted by Glenn Block | 3 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, May 06, 2008 1:09 AM

Unity and Silverlight

It can be done! Go read Chris's post for more. Jared if you are listening, we need this for PrismContrib . (which I still need to post about)
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Monday, May 05, 2008 5:36 AM

PrismShouldNotReferenceUnity

Clarification: We are not against using Unity, the Prism RI uses Unity, and we've been very happy with it's implementation. We are after all one of Unity's first internal customers. On the other hand, we want to make it easier for customers to use their
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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
Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:27 PM

The Prism team and how we develop

We've got quite a diverse team for Prism that spans 3 continents. In Redmond Adam Calderon (Interknowlodgy), Arun Subramonian Namboothiri (Infosys), Prasad Paluri (Infosys), Francis Cheung, Julian Dominguez (Southworks), Bob Brumfield, Glenn Block, Blaine
Posted by Glenn Block | 9 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:29 AM

Upcoming talks

This is one of the posts that I have been meaning to get to for several weeks, but it just keeps falling to the bottom of the backlog. Tomorrow I jump on an airplane so I guess now is as good as time as any. In the next few months, I have several talks
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