Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) June 2008 Released
I’m proud to announce that we have just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF. I want to thank to the Composite WPF Team. It was really great being part of this release.
Let’s see what this release is about.
What is Composite Application Guidance for WPF?
The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is a set of guidance designed to help you more easily manage the complexities you may face when building enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible WPF client applications using loosely coupled, independently evolvable pieces that work together and are integrated into the overall application.
For more information, see Composite Application Guidance - What is it?.
What is in this release?
- Reusable library code (named Composite Application Library)
- Comprehensive docs including patterns, design concepts, technical concepts, RI overview and API.
- A Reference Implementation (StockTrader RI)
- A Hands-On Lab
- QuickStarts:
- UI Composition
- Commanding
- Event Aggregation
- Dynamic Modularity (Configuration)
- Dynamic Modularity (DirectoryLookup)

Downloads
Documentation
- Check the documentation on MSDN (HTML Format)
Getting Started / Installation Instructions
- Read the recommendations on how to quickly use this guidance.
- Before installing, please see the Installation Instructions.
Community Site
To give feedback, get assistance or download additional content please visit our community site.
Contributions
If you want to contribute with this project, please visit our contrib community site.
Knowledge Base
We have created a Knowledge Base to categorize and organize blogs posts, CodePlex pages, CodePlex posts, etc that can be valuable for the community.
Known Issues
In this page you will find the list of known issues of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF.
Feedback
Feel free to give us your feedback on the discussion board. If you see issues, please post them to the Issue Tracker.
For more information of this new release, see Composite Application Guidance is Live.
Enjoy this new release.
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