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SilverlightShow Webinar presenter Brian Noyes (check the recent webinar by Brian on WCF RIA Services Validation) is one of the authors of the new book on Prism 4: Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight.

This guide provides everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible, maintainable Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight® 4.0 applications.

It can be challenging to design and build WPF or Silverlight client applications that are flexible, maintainable, and that can evolve over time based on changing requirements. These kinds of applications require a loosely coupled modular architecture that allows individual parts of the application to be independently developed and tested, allowing the application to be modified or extended later on. Additionally, the architecture should promote testability, code re-use, and flexibility.

Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling. This guide helps you understand these design patterns and describes how you can use Prism to implement them in your WPF or Silverlight applications.

This guide will show you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern in your application, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable. It will show you how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application. It will show you how to dynamically construct a flexible user interface by using regions, and how to implement rich navigation across a modular application. Prism allows you to use these design patterns together or in isolation, depending on your particular application requirements.

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This guide provides everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible, maintainable Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight® 4.0 applications.

It can be challenging to design and build WPF or Silverlight client applications that are flexible, maintainable, and that can evolve over time based on changing requirements. These kinds of applications require a loosely coupled modular architecture that allows individual parts of the application to be independently developed and tested, allowing the application to be modified or extended later on. Additionally, the architecture should promote testability, code re-use, and flexibility.

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Karl Shifflett has blogged how to use the Unity Container with Prism 4 Region Navigation and the Silverlight Frame Navigation API’s.

Source: .NET Developer Guidance

I have had several requests to demonstrate how to use Unity with Prism 4 Region Navigation and the Silverlight Frame Navigation framework.

The primary purpose of this blog post is to provide an example of using Unity for dependency resolution when writing a Silverlight application that also uses Prism 4 Region Navigation and the Silverlight Frame Navigation framework.

Karl Shifflett has posted a high quality, multi-media MVVM training that is consumed within Visual Studio 2010 called "In the Box".

Source: Karl Shifflett's Blog

Content is navigated and delivered using a next generation computer based training (CBT) experience, the Visual Studio 2010 Feature Extension.

In the Box, is a brand name for a series of CBT Feature Extensions I’ll release that are listed in the Visual Studio 2010 Add New Project dialog.

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Source: Karl Shifflett's Blog

I created the provided deck from several decks published by the Evangelism Team. I edited and added content for the session I did.

For the three example applications, I studied the Evangelism Team’s material, samples on the web, added many hours of learning and ported Ocean to the Windows Phone 7.

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Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett will talk at the Portland Silverlight User Group on the topic of Building toolable Silverlight applications that enable the designer developer workflow.

Warning: We won’t be 20 seconds into this session before mashing the gas pedal to the floor.  After looking at the XAML tools Blend & Cider, we’ll dive deep into toolable application design.  Toolable applications not only enhance the initial development experience but also provide benefits to long term application maintenance.  An additional benefit is the enabling of the designer developer workflow.  See the two roles played out in the presentation as they collaborate without clobbering each other.

I first heard about Non-Linear Navigation in this dnrTV video that Billy Hollis did.  While on a cruise to Alaska I wrote the BBQ Shack application, which is a WPF implementation of Non-Linear Navigation.

Non-Linear Navigation is one way for Silverlight line of business applications to provide users with a desktop application like experience.  This would include both in-browser and out-of-browser applications.

I have two XAML Power Toys products on my blog.  They are not the same.  Get both, you’ll be glad you did. The first one is for working in the XAML Editor and to create ViewModel’s. The second one works with the Cider Designer.  This is post is about this product.

Developers using a visual Designer use sample data to light up their UI at design-time; to cause the Designer to render like it will at run-time. This time saving feature is especially important when designing DataTemplates or adjusting the layout of a DataGrid since the developer will not have to actually run the application to see what it will render like with data.