prism

Windows Phone 7 - Using the Application bar and Prism (or MVVM)

Hi, I am playing around with the WP7 SDK and the Prism for WP7 beta and have come across a problem I can't figure out (or even a workaround for). First of all, I'm new into WPF/Silverlight/WP7 and Prism, so I could be overlooking something very obvious. So I have a Shell page that has my region that is used to hold my content page...

WPF Prism Inject same viewmodel instance into two views

So I have two separate views in a WPF Prism app. How can I inject the same instance of a viewmodel into both the views via Depencency Injection? ...

Events wont fire across modules (prism, MVVM, silverlight c#)

Righty oh now I believe ive set this application up right but correct me if im wrong, for simple sake i have in my bootstrapper 3 modules loaded, one is a navigation module, and two others the views. Independently in code if i load the modules and in the initialize method add them to a region that all works fine, however ofcourse id lik...

MVVM-PRISM, how to display multiple instances of a view in a region/ItemsControl

Hi! I am building an module for an application that is based on MVVM, CAL and PRISM. I'm fairly new to these concepts, and trying to get my head around all the patterns and right now I'm struggling with the following problem: I am in the need of creating multiple instances of the same View. Each one of the views need to bind to it's o...

StaticResource master in PRISM Module

I'm developing a LOB app in Silverlight using PRISM. I've got several modules that I'm loading on demand. In these moduels I want to style common parts with a "master" resource dict that I have in the Shell project. This works when I build the project but it's kinda hard to design layout in the designer in VS because the StaticResource...

Checkbox commanding, check - OK, Uncheck NOT ok, how do i bind the uncheck command?

Hi, I'm having problems attaching an uncheck command to a checkbox. Or more correct, I do not know how to code it. Here's my code for the check command, how should it look to get uncheck also working? View: <CheckBox commands:Checked.Command="{Binding CheckCommand}" IsChecked="False"></CheckBox> ViewModel: Private _CheckCommand As D...

Creating Dialogs with Silverlight Prism

Hello, I'm new to creating Silverlight applications. I have inherited a code-base that I've been told is using Prism. Based upon what I've seen in the code-base, this looks to be true. My problem is, I am just trying to open a dialog window and close a dialog window. To open the dialog window, I'm using the following: UserControl my...

Is PRISM meant for large scale application development ?

I am developing a silverlight application for the past 6 months using prism framework. When I look at the code base now it has grown huge with lots of modules, event aggregators, inter module communication code etc. On hindsight I am contemplating whether I made the right choice. Is there any other simpler framework I should have gone fo...

Design time data in WPF / Silverlight - how to use wrapper classes correctly?

Hi, I am facing a problem of "design time support" best practices. I am using PRISM, and my objects are created by a DI container. Lets assume the following simple scenario: I have an object workflow. This workflow has several properties, and there is a WorkflowProvider which provides a list of workflows. If I design the ListView I do...

How to enter the URI to setup the ModuleCatalog in Prism WPF

I am getting a bit frustrated with prism. Something that should be so easy is really getting me stuck! I am trying to load my ModuleCatalog from a file. I created the ModuleCatalog.xaml file in my shell project. In the file's properties I have removed the Custom Tool action and I have set Build Action to Resource (I also tried Conten...

Can Prism be modular when calling webservices?

I am playing around creating a demo prism application. The application I have has a shell project and another module that has a prism service and a view (and a view-model). (mostly based off of Mike Taulty's videos, but in WPF rather than silverlight). I setup the prism-service to call my web service. It seemed all setup right, but w...

RegisterType<> Not visible on Silverlight

I was following an example found here on StackOverflow, and everything went well until I need to register my types. My web application is running on Silverlight 4, with Prism and MVVM. The example is using "Microsoft.Practices.Unity" (it's a windows form application) Bootstrapper.cs protected override void ConfigureContainer() ...

How can i activate multiple views belonging to the same region?

I'm new to Silverlight and Prism. I'm developing a dashboard application. Here's my question. I've 2 regions: 1. Login 2. Maincontainer. My Login region has one view and my maincontainer has 2 views. After a successful login, i need to deactivate the Login region or view (whichever is simple) and then i need to activate the Maincontain...

New Prism Project - Use MEF or Unity?

I'm starting a new personal Prism 4 project. The Reference Implementation currently uses Unity. I'd like to know if I should use MEF instead, or just keep to Unity. I know a few discussions have mentioned that these two are different, and they do overlap, but will I be missing out if I simply choose Unity all the way? ...

MEF field imports not being resolved

I have MEF/Prism 4 project for which I can resolve imports via the ImportingConstructor, but not via field imports in the same class. In the sample code below, myDataService is correctly resolved in the constructor. But _myDataServiceFieldImport isn't resolved, despite the Import attribute. Same result whether it's a field or proper...

My Silverlight app doesnt show changes

Hello there. It's my first time with SL (but not WPF). Im learning PRISM watching the great videos of MTaulty: http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/mtaulty/prism--silverlight-part-1-taking-sketched-code-towards-unity So far so good, I'm with the last video and I'm doing the same things He does in my VS. I'm using SL4 & mvc2 web & prism for s...

PRISM: Creating Pipeline of Async methods

I am wondering if anyone can help me with something here: I am trying to create a "pipeline" or "queue" of commands [similar to CompositeCommand in Prism] except I want it to be sequential even if the command being executed is Asynchronous in nature. Basically, I want to string together bunch of Async calls [not at compile time but at r...

Creating WPF ResourceDictionary from code doesn't seem to work when setting ResourceDictionary.Source

I have a project containing a xaml ResourceDictionary that I wish to use outside of a FrameworkElement. The resource dictionary will contain a DataTemplate for a class local to the project to avoid polluting the app.xaml (as the project is a prism module, and will not always be present depending on config). So, I have a test.xaml file w...

How to create modules with sub regions in view of module in Prism?

I am new to Prism, sorry if this is dumbest question but here is the situation. I am workin on currently a CRUD application, typically an accounting system. Now I have a parent Shell with following modules. Application Shell -> OrdersModule -> ItemsModule Now I have got tabs for both modules, and in my orders module, I want to creat...

Silverlight: Create Tabbed browser view using Prism?

Well I have this application requirement with following design needs, My main region is Tab Control. There is a fixed (you cant close) search tab Module where I can search list of projects, but when I double click on the selected project should open on its own view in the same Tab Control, however Project Detail Module is altogether ve...