Composite Application Guidance for WPF

This is a major piece of IP if you are doing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications for Project for instance :) : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707819.aspx 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.

Summary

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications—composite applications use loosely coupled, independently evolvable pieces that work together in the overall application.

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF can help you split the development of your WPF client application across multiple development teams. In this type of application, each team is responsible for the development of different pieces of the application, which are seamlessly composed together. The guidance includes a reference implementation, reusable library code (named the Composite Application Library), documentation, QuickStart tutorials, and hands-on labs.

Intended Audience

This guidance is intended for software architects and developers who are building enterprise WPF client applications. The guidance uses a number of design patterns . Familiarity with these technologies and patterns is useful for evaluating and adopting the Composite Application Library.