Are you using or going to use Prism? I had experience with Composite Application block (composite UI for WinForms) and can say that it's an overengineered hard to use framework. I've taken a look at Prism and it seems to be better designed e.g. simple to use and fast. What do you think? ...
I am considering building a application using PRISM (Composite WPF Guidance/Library). The application modules will be vertically partitioned (i.e. Customers, Suppliers, Sales Orders, etc). This is still all relatively easy... I also have a Shell with a main region were all the work will happen but now I need the following behavior: I nee...
I'm looking at using CompositeWPF (http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF) - aka Prism, to build an application I am working on. The application isn't a traditional LOB application, however it does present data and state information to the user. One thing which I am unsure of is if CompositeWPF supports more than one Window or Shell. I w...
I have been using Prism for two days and have successfully added and used existing UserControls on the new Shell. These UserControls contained only pure WPF Controls (buttons, lists etc). I now need to introduce existing UserControls that consists of other UserControls. If my understanding is correct, I believe I need to redevelop the...
This relates to Composite Application Guidance for WPF, or Prism. I have one "MainRegion" in my shell. My various modules will be loaded into this main region. I can populate a list of available modules in a menu and select them to load. On the click of the menu I do: var module = moduleEnumerator.GetModule(moduleName); moduleLoader.In...
This question was also posted on Prism's site on Codeplex. I am a little lost on loading modules on demand, and I hope you guys can enlighten me. I am using v2 #7. Here's what I want to accomplish: 1) I have 2 regions - one for buttons that instantiate the modules (MenuRegion), another to show the modules (MainRegion). Only one mo...
Take the following useless program: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { IUnityContainer unityContainer = new UnityContainer(); IWindsorContainer windsorContainer = new WindsorContainer(); Program unityProgram = unityContainer.Resolve<Program>(); Program castleProgram = windsorContai...
Here's my scenario: 1) Shell with 1 TabControl and 1 region called MenuRegion 2) MenuRegion contains Buttons for each of the available modules (applications). I want to achieve the following using Prism (Composite Application Library for WPF): When one of the buttons is clicked, I need to add a new TabItem to the TabControl, and load an...
I'm currently tasked with teaching all the developers, in the company I work in, about Silverlight (v2). The only problem is that I don't have any real Silverlight experience myself. Of course I've studied all the technical details about stuff like databinding, layout etc. so I can help my colleagues. But one thing that is hard to find a...
I'm reading through the Prism v2 guidelines in which they state: During initialization, modules use the RegionManager to locate regions in the shell and add one or more views to those regions or register one or more view types to be created within those regions I understand that views are added in the bootstrapper e.g. in...
I am researching Prism v2 by going thru the quickstarts. And I have created a WCF service with the following signature: namespace HelloWorld.Silverlight.Web { [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://helloworld.org/messaging")] [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequiremen...
I'm tring to grok Prism (Composite Application Guidelines). What is the best way to understand the role of the ShellPresenter? Is it a presenter as in Model-View-Presenter? Is so, what is its relationship to the Shell? I understand that the ShellPresenter takes the Shell object as a parameter of its constructor and is responsible for ...
In a Prism v2 application, I define two regions, each a tabitem in a tabcontrol: <UniformGrid Margin="10"> <TabControl> <TabItem Header="First" Name="MainRegion" cal:RegionManager.RegionName="MainRegion"/> <TabItem Header="Second" Name="SecondRegion" cal:RegionManager.RegionName="SecondRegion"/> </TabControl> </U...
I'm using the Composite Application Guidelines (Version 2, Feb 2009). I've built the Shell with one region, a Bootstrapper and an Employee Module with two views, both of which I want the RegionManager to add to one region in the shell. However, only the last view added to the RegionManager is displayed in the region. What do I need to...
(from the StockTraderRIBootstrapper.cs file in the Prism V2 StockTrader example app) What is the difference between this: ShellPresenter presenter = new ShellPresenter(); and this: ShellPresenter presenter = Container.Resolve<ShellPresenter>(); I understand the second example is treating the container like a factory, walking up t...
The examples that Microsoft's Patterns and Practices provides are quite helpful: about a half-dozen simpler QuickStarts which touch on specific issues the StockTrader reference implementation, which is a fairly rounded application but it lacks a more useful base application that reads and writes to a data source (XML or database), al...
I am new to Prism and I am trying to determine a best practice for deactivating a view in a Prism 2 application -- when a user clicks a button on the view I want to deactivate the view. The view is executing a command when the button is clicked. The view model is receiving the command but the viewmodel does not have a reference to the ...
Hi All, I have noticed a strange behaviour when using the command functionality in Silverlight: When the adding the commands:Click.Command and CommandParameter property, the IsEnabled property stops functioning: <Button Content="Delete" x:Name="Btn_Delete" Margin="0,0,8,0" MinWidth="75" commands:Click.Command="{Bi...
Im Using Composite Aplication Guidiance Pattern for building my WPF application. In my Shell i have a tabcontrol wich contains a region for dynamicly load Views into the region. The views is loaded into new tabs in the TabControl. <TabControl AutomationProperties.AutomationId="MainTabControl" cal:RegionManager.Region...
I am using Unity with Silverlight and Prism 2. On my laptop (running Vista 32) I am seeing the following error in the output window in VS.NET 2008 SP1 - which I think is being caught internally by Unity. A first chance exception of type 'System.Threading.SynchronizationLockException' occurred in Microsoft.Practices.Unity On my desktop ...