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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:51 PM

Upcoming talks at NDC in Oslo and Poland

Next week, I am heading to Europe for two weeks to give several talks. My first stop is NDC 2009 , where I’ll be delivering the following talks: Framework Design Guidelines Building Maintainable Enterprise Applications with Silverlight and WPF Building
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
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
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Attachment(s): MefEventWiring.zip
Monday, October 20, 2008 1:12 AM

Bringing Prism to WinForms

Brian Noyes just posted a set of Composite Extensions for WinForms which includes a working and very simple (see below) sample. The sample illustrates: Bootstrapping with Unity Module Loading Event Aggregation Simple Regions It's great to see that Brian
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 17, 2008 8:15 PM

I am speaking at Øredev

This year I'll be skipping an awesome visit to Barcelona to head on and be with friends in Malmo, Sweden at the next Øredev. I'll be speaking on the usual suspects and some new ones Building maintainable enterprise WPF applications using Composite
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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
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.
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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
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
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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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