In talking to UK customers about building business applications with Silverlight I often mention Prism or “Composite Application Guidance” that comes from the Patterns and Practices team and I’ve met a few people who either haven’t heard of Prism or have found it a bit hard to get into and so have put it to one side to look at “later”.
I thought I’d take a wander around Prism myself and as part of doing that I put together a bunch of screencasts that I’ve just published to Channel 9 which take a look at a few of the Prism topics like;
- Dependency Injection
- Unity
- Modularity
- Shells, Regions, Views
- Commands
- Event Aggregation
and I also put together a longer screencast that tries to walk through building a simple Silverlight “email client” using the ideas contained in the other screencasts.
I’ve published 10 videos to Channel 9 – the starting point is the big picture below which links to video 1;
and then the videos should all be cross-linked or you can jump to them using the hyperlinks below;
- Part 1: Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity
- Part 2: Dependency Injection with Unity
- Part 3: Modularity with Prism
- Part 4: The Unity Bootstrapper
- Part 5: Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project
- Part 6: Shells, Regions, Views
- Part 7: Commands
- Part 8: Loosely Coupled Events with Event Aggregation
- Part 9: Sharing Data via Region Contexts
Enjoy.
Mike Taulty 