Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4

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The Microsoft patterns & practices team is excited to announce the release of:

Prism 4.0

For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4

Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications, Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7 applications. Using design patterns that embody important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you to design and build applications using loosely coupled components that can evolve independently but which can be easily and seamlessly integrated into the overall application. Such applications are known as often referred to as composite applications.

Audience

Prism is intended for software developers building WPF or Silverlight applications that typically feature multiple screens, rich user interaction and data visualization, and that embody significant presentation and business logic. These applications typically interact with a number of back-end systems and services and, using a layered architecture, may be physically deployed across multiple tiers. It is expected that the application will evolve significantly over its lifetime in response to new requirements and business opportunities. In short, these applications are "built to last" and "built for change." Applications that do not demand these characteristics may not benefit from using Prism.

Key Benefits

  • Provides guidance and a re-usable library to help you develop flexible, easy to maintain WPF and Silverlight composite applications
  • Helps you to understand, implement and use key design patterns, such as MVVM and Dependency Injection
  • Supports the development of modular applications, allowing parts of your application to be fully developed and tested by separate teams
  • Helps you re-use application code and components across WPF and Silverlight, allowing you to create multi-targeted client experiences
  • Allows you to build a designer-friendly, dynamically composed user interface for your application
  • Includes reference implementations, quick-starts, hands-on-labs, as well as a comprehensive developers guide to get you up to speed quickly
  • Includes full source code to support code re-use or customization or for reference and education

In this Release

  • Prism Library for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
    • Signed binary assemblies
    • Full source code
  • Example Applications and Hands-on-Lab Source Code
    • Reference Implementations (2)
    • QuickStarts (12)
    • Hands on Labs (2)
  • Documentation
    • Comprehensive developers guide showing how to use Prism within your application
    • A printable PDF of the developers guide – available on CodePlex

About patterns & practices

The Microsoft patterns & practices team provides a wide range of guidance to help customers save time and reduce risk on their software development projects by incorporating proven patterns and practices.  This applied engineering guidance includes both production quality source code and in-depth documentation.

The guidance is designed to help software development teams:

  • Make critical design and technology selection decisions by highlighting the appropriate solution architectures, technologies, and Microsoft products for common scenarios
  • Understand the most important concepts needed for success by explaining the relevant patterns and prescribing the important practices
  • Get started with a proven code base by providing thoroughly tested software and source code that embodies the recommendations

For more information: https://msdn.microsoft.com/practices