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Composite Application Guidance for WPF ( Prism ) Released - Documentation Samples Tutorials Reusable Libraries

Congratulations to the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team for releasing the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, a library for creating composite, line of business WPF applications using proven practices.

Composite Application Guidance for WPF 2008 Release Candidate 1 Download

Composite Application Guidance for WPF 2008 Release Candidate 1 has been released.

Composite Application Guidance for WPF ( Prism )

As of the June 10, 2008 drop, Prism is now called the Composite Application Guidance for WPF.

Caliburn Features - WPF Application Development Goodness

Rob Eisenberg provides an impressive list of features in Caliburn, a fully-baked, reusable framework for developing not only composite WPF Applications but applications of any size and complexity.

Using the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern to Create Modular WPF Applications

Josh Smith has a nice CodeProject article that discusses the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern with respect to creating modular WPF Applications. He then dives into unit testing the model and controller and introducing mock objects.

New Prism Drop on 5/2/08 - Composite WPF Application Guidance from Patterns and Practices

A new release of Prism on 05/02/2008. The latest version of the Composite WPF Application Guidance includes dynamic module loading and initialization, quickstarts, some documentation, and a different way to compose a UI by using View-Models and Data templates.

Optimizing WPF Application Performance Guidance on MSDN

A link to some MSDN Resources that discuss ways to optimize the performance of WPF Applications.

WPF Application Performance / Profiling Tools - WPF Performance Suite

If you are building WPF Applications and interested in profiling WPF Applications to optimize performance, check out the WPF Performance Suite.

Caliburn - An MVP Framework for WPF Composite Applications

Rob Eisenberg mentions his project, Caliburn, which is an MVP Framework for creating WPF Composite Applications and similar in many ways to Microsoft Patterns and Practices Prism Project. Rob is about a year ahead of the Prism project so it definitely sounds worth checking out for your WPF Application Needs.

Fourth Prism Drop Released - WPF Application Development Guidance

The fourth drop of the Prism Project was released on April 15th, 2008.

PrismContrib Project - Composite WPF Application Guidance Contribution Community

The PrismContrib Project has started on CodePlex for those of you interested in the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Prism Project for developing Composite WPF Applications.

Enterprise WPF Application Guidance - 2nd Drop of Prism RI from Patterns and Practices

Microsoft Patterns and Practices released the second drop of the Prism RI that includes the following changes...

Prism Reference Implementation - WPF Guidance from Microsoft Patterns and Practices

Microsoft Patterns and Practices released their first drop of the Prism Reference Implementation that embodies their thoughts on Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ) Guidance. Very similar to the Smart Client Software Factory and Web Client Software Factory, Prism is about building Composite WPF Clients and uses a number of design patterns that we have seen in other Microsoft Patterns and Practices Guidance Packages. Read more...

Prism CodePlex Project - Composite WPF Applications Guidance Patterns and Practices

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team created the Prism CodePlex Project. Prism is a set of assets for developing Composite WPF applications. Prism includes a reference implementation, reusable library code and pattern guidance. Using Prism enables designing a composite application that is composed of many discrete, loosely coupled modules.