In addition to the reusable components and the reference app, we are releasing an extensive documentation explaining some of the best practices for developing Windows Store LOB apps. Below you can find our proposed table of contents of the project docs (items in bold are included in the latest drop). Getting started with Kona Key... read more
A few days ago we have published a new drop of the first drop of the patterns & practices Kona Guidance on Codeplex. For those who are not familiar with this project, the goal is to provide written guidance as well as reference implementation to describe recommended practices for building LOB Windows 8 client apps... read more
I have seen many questions, both in the Codeplex (here) and StackOverflow forums (here), asking how to load modules that were packaged for remote module loading in a Silverlight out of browser application. I created this sample a couple of months ago, and I thought might be useful for others. Here you can download the... read more
This past week with Diego, Ezequiel, Guido and Matias we worked on updating Prism training kit to Prism 4.0. Following the trend from the Prism team guys, we updated the version number to Prism Training Kit 4.0. Download the latest version from here. I really recommend downloading this release, as we put a lot... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on July 2nd, 2010 5:36 pm under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Prism-v2.2, Silverlight 4, Training Kit, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
Over the last week, Matias and I took some time to work on something a Prism Training Kit. We figured out that was one of the things that would be useful to learn Prism. Therefore, we decided to create a set of Hands on Labs that cover the basic topics addressed by Prism (if you... read more
As you might already read in Bob’s blog (if you haven’t I recommend you to add him to your RSS), Prism 2.2 has been released. As I explained in my previous post, this is an intermediate version until Prism 4.0 gets here and is mainly oriented to allow development in Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight... read more
Disclaimer: This blog post will not provide any new information on Prism’s future, as it simply is a merger of blog posts, forum threads and similar. If you follow the team blogs actively, you will probably already be aware about this information. There have been lots of threads in the Prism forum with questions like... read more
As you might have read in the SCSF forum at Codeplex, the p&p team has recently shipped a beta version of the SCSF source code that runs in Visual Studio 2010. If you haven’t checked it out, you can download it from here. On this same subject, Fernando has written a detailed blog post which... read more
As Visual Studio 2010 RTM is coming soon other products are being released too. For example, the source code of Smart Client Software Factory 2010 was released in beta version on Codeplex (download it from here) by the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team (read more about this in Don’s post and Blaine’s Post). At first... read more
Today with Guido Maliandi, we set to find a way to use the Accordion from the Silverlight toolkit as region in a Prism application. As the Accordion inherits from ItemsControl, Prism already provided some functionality to get that control working as a region. However, we wanted it to have the following behavior: Only one view... read more