Prism 4.0 released

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.

This post is for you, if you are new to Prism or you want to know about what is in this new version.

You can download the Prism package from here. The documentation can be found at MSDN, and also if you want it in a printable format, you can download it from our Codeplex page.

What is Prism

Prism is guidance (libraries and documentation) that helps building WPF and Silverlight client applications that embrace separation of concerns, loose coupling, and that are built to last and built for change.

Key Benefits

• Provides infrastructure for developing and maintaining WPF and Silverlight composite applications
• Embraces accepted industry patterns such as MVVM and dependency injection
• Allows reusable components across WPF and Silverlight applications
• User Interface components are dynamically composed
• Application modules are can be developed, tested and deployed by separate teams
• Allows incremental adoption of the library
• Is IoC Container agnostic, supports MEF
• Provides outstanding written guidance over a wide range of application design and  implementation topics

What is in the release

• · MSDN
  • Prism Library for WPF and Silverlight
    • Signed binaries
    • Source code
  • Example Applications and Labs Source Code
    • Reference Implementations (2)
    • QuickStarts (12)
    • Hands on Lab (2)
  • Documentation
    • 11 Chapters, 8 Appendixes, 18 RI, QuickStarts and Labs
• CodePlex
  • Links to MSDN assets
  • Printable PDF of the written guidance
• O’Reilly
  • Developers Guide to Microsoft Prism (11 chapters, 3 appendixes) (Coming in 2011)

Hope this helps and encourages you to try out Prism.

Diego