If you are interested in developing Siverlight 2.0 and WPF Composite Applications, you may want to look at the latest release of Prism ( Drop 6 ). Prism originally helped with developing WPF Composite Line of Business Applications, but now in Prism 2.0 it will help with developing WPF and Silverlight 2.0 Composite Applications.
You can follow all the news on Prism and the Composite Application Guidance for WPF.
In Drop 6 of Prism, you will find the following in the drop:
- The Project Linker tool installer
- Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight
- Silverlight Ports of:
- the Modularity namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Regions namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Events namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Composite.UnityExtensions namespace for Silverlight
- Stock Trader Reference Implementation on Silverlight (work in progress)
- The Multi-Targeting Visual Studio templates
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight Work-in-progress documentation
- QuickStarts:
- Multi-Targeting QuickStart
- Modularity QuickStarts (Static and Remote module-loading versions)
- Top Down Composition QuickStart
- Bottom Up QuickStart
- Event Aggregator QuickStart
You will find the following major changes in the recent Prism drop:
- RegionContext usable in XAML.
- Introduced a façade on IRegionManager for adding views to regions (push based) and registering view types (pull based)
- Expanded the usage of pull based composition in Top Down Composition quickstart
- Silverlight RI is now using the Silverlight Toolkit Controls for line and pie charts
- Regions and RegionContext using an expanded behavior mechanisms
- Have established package load key for project linker
- known issue: this still requires the SDK to be installed, however.
- Changed to Add Project Link... dialog
- Resolved a number of code-analysis rules
- Stock Trader RI is now using pull-view (or top-down) composition for trend line graph
- ProjectLinker installer does not have to be started with elevated permissions on Vista
You can download Prism Drop 6 here.
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