Glenn Block

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• Using ViewModels and DataTemplates to compose your UI

  Several drops ago we introduced a ViewModel composition spike. The purpose of this spike was to introduce a different way to compose your UI that WPF offers. That is instead of having your views and regions be UI-Elements, having them as pure models.... Posted May 24 2008, 09:10 AM by Glenn Block with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: prism, WPF

• WPF, from this to that..Wow!

  A few weeks ago, our reference implementation for Prism looked like this. Early on we decided that we needed the RI to have a better look in feel so that it delivered a more real world WPF experience. We hired a design firm to create XAML proofs based... Posted May 08 2008, 06:44 AM by Glenn Block with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Composite WPF, Featured, prism, WPF

• Prism vs Framework XXX

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/288925731/ There's been a bunch of talk on the net comparing Prism to other frameworks that exist. In many cases comparisons are being made based on feature parity and such. I think it's important to make the... Posted May 08 2008, 01:33 AM by Glenn Block with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Composite WPF, Featured, prism, WPF

• Prism talk at WPF Bootcamp

  Some months ago I delivered a talk on "Prism' at the WPF Bootcamp. The talk gives a good overview of why we are doing this work. At the time of this demo it was very early, before we even started on the RI work. It does give a good idea of where... Posted Apr 01 2008, 12:20 AM by Glenn Block with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: patterns and practices, prism, WPF, Composite WPF, Featured

• Prism Drop 2

  We just shipped our next "Prism" drop on codeplex. Below is a list of some of the signficant changes. RegionManagerService no longer exposes AddViewToRegion. Added a sliding region to the shell which displays the watch list. Add to Watchlist... Posted Mar 25 2008, 04:47 PM by Glenn Block with | with no comments Filed under: Composite WPF, Featured, patterns and practices, prism, WPF

• 'Prism' RI first drop

  Today is a historic occasion for the "Prism" team as our first drop of our Reference Implementation (RI) hits codeplex. In this post I will describe to you what the RI is, and what you can expect to see when you download it. Disclaimer: This... Posted Mar 12 2008, 02:19 PM by Glenn Block with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, patterns, patterns and practices, prism, WPF

• 'Prism' launches on CodePlex

  Some time ago we announced that patterns & practices was going to be delivering a new set of guidance for building composite applications in WPF. A lot has happened since then, least of which is coming up with a new codename "Prism". ... Posted Mar 12 2008, 02:16 PM by Glenn Block with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: patterns and practices, prism, WPF