Glenn Block

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• 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

• PrismShouldNotReferenceUnity

  Clarification: We are not against using Unity, the Prism RI uses Unity, and we've been very happy with it's implementation. We are after all one of Unity's first internal customers. On the other hand, we want to make it easier for customers... Posted May 04 2008, 09:40 PM by Glenn Block with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, misc, 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

• '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

• 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