| Title | : | Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight |
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| ISBN | : | 073565610X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780735656109 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 |
| Publication | : | First published March 21, 2011 |
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.
Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight Reviews
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I only give 5 stars to books that I find REALLY exceptional, and I hardly ever give books 1 star. But this was just awful as far as programming books go. Not very readable at all. Perhaps it will be useful as a reference down the road. Unfortunately, I feel more confused about Prism after having read this. Uggh.
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As Microsoft books go, I found this to be one of their better software books. The examples were straight forward, and I feel that I have a real handle on Prism 4. I downloaded the free PDF, but the book is also available to be viewed on line. My company has decided to go to the MVVM format. I do see some of advantages for programming this way, but I still not connivence that the complexity of the model is really needed. One of the problems that I have with the module is there are still issue with the UI event controls where nested controls like a tab page won't refresh when another control is selected and when it is is reselected. I have a image which goes away, and the only way that I can get it back is to refresh its resources. I don't like how the WPF for crystal reports seems to be flakey on some of the report refresh. As with Microsoft, I sure that service pack II will fix this down the road. Overall, I am liking what I see.
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Good and solid introduction into Prism framework. It describes how to work with Prism and shows with samples (samples are basic but quite good) possible ways to split functionality into modules and organize navigation and interaction between them. I recommend this guide to all WPF developers who works on large and complex applications.
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