Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4.0

The documentation for Prism 4 has been completely rewritten and includes the architectural overview, design, and technical concepts for composite applications, applied patterns, two chapters covering Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), application navigation, Stock Trader Reference Implementation (Stock Trader RI) and MVVM Reference Implementation (MVVM RI) overview, QuickStart overviews, and deployment topics. Much of this guidance is applicable even if you are not using the Prism Library, but you want to know best practices for creating composite applications

Prism 4.0 – November 2010

The guide contains the following topics:

• Readme
• What’s New in Prism 4.0
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Initializing Prism Applications
• Chapter 3: Managing Dependencies Between Components
• Chapter 4: Modular Application Development
• Chapter 5: Implementing the MVVM Pattern
• Chapter 6: Advanced MVVM Scenarios
• Chapter 7: Composing the User Interface
• Chapter 8: Navigation
• Chapter 9: Communicating Between Loosely Coupled Components
• Chapter 10: Sharing Code Between Silverlight and WPF
• Chapter 11: Deploying Prism Applications

More:

• Patterns in the Prism Library – an overview on common patterns used in “Composite Application” & Prisim Library.
• Prism Library – the organization of the Prism Library into 4 different assemblies. (WP7 has only 2 assemblies)
• Extending Prism e.g. custom logging.
• Reference Implementations
  • MVVM Reference Implementation
  • Stock Trader Reference Implementation
• QuickStarts
  • Modularity QuickStarts for WPF
  • Modularity QuickStarts for Silverlight
  • Basic MVVM QuickStart
  • MVVM QuickStart
  • Commanding QuickStart
  • UI Composition QuickStart
  • State-Based Navigation QuickStart
  • View-Switching Navigation QuickStart
  • Event Aggregation QuickStart
  • Multi-Targeting QuickStart
• Appendix H: Prism Hands-On Labs
  • WPF Hands-On Lab: Get Started with Prism
  • Silverlight Hands-On Lab: Get Started with Prism
  • WPF Prism Deployment Hands-On Lab: Publishing and Updating with ClickOnce

Class Library References:

Desktop Class Library

Phone Class Library

Silverlight Class Library

MVVM-Friendly DomainDataSource: DomainCollectionView

Yes, that’s right… we now have a component that is a big step toward addressing the request for an MVVM-Friendly DomainDataSource.  As of this posting, that feature was the #2 requested item on the RIA Services wish list, and we’ve been pondering its design for a long time.  Kyle McClellan has delivered on this and he is posting details to his blog.  This feature is completely separate from the DomainDataSource, and it’s built from the ground up with ViewModel usage in mind.

Here are some specific links from Kyle’s blog:

• Collection Binding Options in WCF RIA Services SP1
• Introducing An MVVM-Friendly DomainDataSource: The DomainCollectionView

Here are the links you need to get up and running:

Install WCF RIA Services SP1 for Silverlight 4

• Install WCF RIA Services SP1 for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010
• Install the WCF RIA Services December 2010 Toolkit for WCF RIA Services SP1