Essential WPF

Prism 4 Release by Tomer Shamam

Prism 4 November 2010 has been released yesterday by Karl Shifflett. This version of Prism 4 targets: .NET Framework 4.0 Guidance around the MVVM pattern Navigation Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) You can read more about it here , and download it from here . Enjoy.

Composite UI Infrastructure Review by Microsoft, Redmond by Tomer Shamam

We’ve just returned back from our Composite UI Infrastructure architecture review by who else but the Prism creators, the Microsoft P&P team, and we’ve also discussed on several WPF issues we’ve got with the WPF team. I have such a great time meeting with David Hill, Blaine Wastell, Julian Dominguez, Rob Relyea, Mike Hillberg, Anson Tsao, Varsha Mahadevan and Jaime Rodriguez. I want to thank each and every one of you personally! Special thanks to Lior Rozner from Microsoft Israel for leading...

Prism on Microsoft Developer Academy III by Tomer Shamam

Microsoft Developer Academy III is coming soon and I’m going to lecture about Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism). So what is in my lecture for you: Well, the original abstract is about Composite UI Applications Challenges and Building WPF Enterprise Applications with Prism. But... Prism is really a lightweight presentation infrastructure, It contains guidelines and class library for building WPF Composite UI Applications. But what about other kind of UI applications? Can we leverage Prism...

Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Tour - Part 2 by Tomer Shamam

In the first post of this series I generally wrote about Prism and how can it fit in WPF applications. In this second post I would like to introduce a Home Automation application UI, show how to design it as a monolithic application, talk about the disadvantages of a monolithic application, and finally show how to design it as a Composite Application. What is a Home Automation? "For some it may be something as simple as remote or automatic control of a few lights. For others, security may be...