Glenn Block

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• Composite Application Guidance - What is it?

  In the development of the Composite Application Guidance one area that we have labored intensely was around documentation. Documentation was so high on our priority list, that we deliberately reduced the number of bells and whistles in order to allow... Posted Jul 01 2008, 05:22 PM by Glenn Block with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Composite Application Guidance, Composite WPF, prism

• How Prism supports using multiple IOC containers

  Today we received the following question / comment on our forums around our strategy for supporting multiple containers in Prism. This is something that I believe is on the minds of other folks using Prism. Below is a portion of the thread which you can... Posted Jul 01 2008, 11:50 AM by Glenn Block with | with no comments Filed under: Composite Application Guidance, Composite WPF, IOC, prism

• Talking about Prism with InfoQ

  Recently at the ALT.NET Summit, I got a chance to sit down with Greg Young to discuss the work we've been doing in our new Composite Application Guidance (Prism). In the interview we talk about the guidance, what technical and architectural challenges... Posted Jun 30 2008, 02:04 PM by Glenn Block with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Composite Application Guidance, Composite WPF, prism

• Composite Application Guidance, time to ship

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckaroli/1779555530/ The last time I did one of these posts, I was off on how close we were, by about a month. Well this time that's not the case. At the end of last week we dropped an RC for Composite Application Guidance... Posted Jun 30 2008, 01:58 AM by Glenn Block with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Composite Application Guidance, Composite WPF, prism

• 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

• Brian Noyes thoughts on Prism

  Brian Noyes from IDesign is one of the great folks helping us in the design and development of Prism. Brian brings a breadth of experience with WPF, and has worked significantly with CAB. He also was the author of the click-once integration pieces in... Posted Apr 29 2008, 11:24 AM by Glenn Block with | with no comments Filed under: Composite WPF, patterns and practices, prism

• 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

• Have you heard of SFD?

  OK, you've heard of TDD and BDD, but have you heard of SFD? SFD stands for Simple-First Development. It's a principle that we're driving on as we move forward in our "Prism" (Composite WPF) project. Essentially it means that when... Posted Feb 08 2008, 01:11 AM by Glenn Block with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Composite WPF, Featured, prism