Hi everyone, Recently I’ve been working with Web Performance and Load Tests in Visual Studio 2010, with the objective of measuring some metrics of a web site, like the average page time and the average first byte time. To do this, I had to record several web tests to serve as the input of the... read more
Prism 4.0, formerly known as Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, has just been released. This is the result of several months of work, where we were driven mostly by community’s feedback. The most important additions to this version are: MEF support, MVVM guidance, Navigation support, and a Prism version for Windows Phone 7.... read more
The last couple of weeks, while working on a couple of personal projects/samples, I have had the chance to start exploring NDepend’s features. In this blog post, I would like to share some of the features that I believe can prove very useful when developing software using Visual Studio. I will provide an overview, using... 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
The third drop of Prism 4.0 (formally known as the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) has been released and can be found in Codeplex. We are early in the process of creating Prism 4.0 so we really need your feedback on the drop and on what you want for this version of prism.... read more
First weeks As my firsts weeks on Southworks go by, I had different challenges to cope with. One of them was stressing a Worker Role service locally or in Windows Azure. A Worker Role is a role that is useful for generalized development, and may perform background processing for a web role. Once you deploy... 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
Published by Damian Schenkelman on November 20th, 2009 6:26 pm under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 4 Beta, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
Most of you know that a Silverlight 4 Beta was released last Wednesday, after Scott Gu’s PDC keynote. If you are a Prism user, and if you are reading this there’s a high chance you are, you are probably wondering how this relates to p&p future plans. Well, Blaine has given us a brief idea... read more