Prism 2.0 download bits refreshed. What’s changed?

February 27th, 2009

A week ago we announced the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 release.

A few days after, Microsoft released a new version of Silverlight (version 2.0.40115.00 or just GDR1), and it broke a build script that we were using for some of the unit tests in the CAL. This didn’t prevent the users from using the CAL, but was causing build failures with cryptical error messages. You can read the full details here.

We also got feedback from users (i.e here, here and from Brian Noyes), that when migrating an existing Prism 1.0 app to Prism 2.0 (WPF), they were experimenting inconsistencies with the activation and deactivation of views when using a TabControl as a region. You can read the full details here.

We decided to fix both issues and refresh the download bits, so you can now download them from MSDN.

 

What files were updated in the source code?

If you are including the CAL in you application’s source control, you might want to know exactly what files were updated.

The following are the only files updated with this refresh:

  • CAL/Silverlight/Composite.Tests/Mocks/Modules/createXap.bat
  • CAL/Silverlight/Composite.Tests/Modularity/XapModuleTypeLoaderFixture.cs
  • CAL/Desktop/Composite.Presentation/Regions/Behaviors/SelectorItemsSourceSyncBehavior.cs
  • Desktop/Composite.Presentation.Tests/Regions/Behaviors/SelectorItemsSourceSyncRegionBehaviorFixture.cs

 

Do you have the latest version already?

If you are not sure whether you already have the latest version of the self-extractable EXE for the source code (because the version number was not updated) you can check the timestamp of the Digital Signature. The refreshed bits should read ‘Tuesday, February 24, 2009′ (don’t mind the time, as it varies with the time zone of the PC).

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More info on the refresh on Blaine Wastell’s blog and Bob Brumfield’s blog.

Happy composite application building!

Posted by Filed in CWPF, Composite WPF, Patterns & Practices, Prism, Silverlight, WPF

2 Responses to “Prism 2.0 download bits refreshed. What’s changed?”

  1. NickN Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 4:40 am

    I’m trying to find the link for the PDF for the document on guidance (that’s a chm file.)

    The links appear to broken or circular, and the exe only has the compiled html.

    Is there a link for the PDF document describing the overall project? Where is it?

  2. jdominguez Says:
    April 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Hi Nick,
    The PDF version of the documentation is available in the last link of this release: http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14982
    I hope this helps.
    Julian

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