Released: Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4

 

Last fall patterns & practices shipped Prism 4. Patterns & Practices team announced the availability of the “Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4” book.

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Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling.

This guide will show you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in your applications, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable.

It will show you how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application.

It will show you how to dynamically construct a flexible user interface by using regions, and how to implement rich navigation across a modular application.

This book is available from O'Reilly or Amazon.

The eBook will be available for download shortly.

The MSDN online content is available here.

Reference Library and Code Samples

Accompanying the book are reference implementations and QuickStarts in C# and Visual Basic that can be downloaded from MSDN:

  • Prism 4 (includes Prism 4 source code, binaries, documentation in CHM format, Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs in C#)
  • Prism 4 Visual Basic Assets (includes Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs)

To learn more about Prism, see the following:

For related downloads, see the following:

you can also provide feedback on the Prism Community Site at https://www.codeplex.com/prism.

Enjoy,