prism for windows 8.1 (building maintainable windows store apps)
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Prism for Windows 8.1(Building maintainable Windows Store Apps)
Blaine Wastell and Francis Cheung
DEV-B350
• Prism Overview• Business app requirements• New in Windows 8.1• Create a new app using Prism
Agenda
Prism OverviewWindows Store Business App Guidance• Windows Dev Center• PDF• AdventureWorks
Shopper RI• Quickstarts• Prism Library on NuGet
Windows Store App
DataAccess
View
AdventureWorks Logical Architecture
Cloud or On-Premises
Domain Model
DI C
onta
iner
(opti
onal)
View Models
Model
View Base
View Model Base
Validation
Service Proxies
Repositories
Services
Domain Object
Provided by PrismProvided by Developer
Legend
View ModelLocator
Infrastructure
App Lifecycle
Management
NavigationService
BootstrapApp Base
Delegate Comman
d
App Views
App View Models
App
Event Aggregator
Model
Domain Object
Domain Object
Repositories
Business App Requirements (LOB)
UX
Validate user input for correctness
Can you do
anything right?
Validation
Characteristics of business appsBuilt to Last Built to Change
Business App DemoValidationBuilt to last and for change
MVVMUnit Testing
Extended splash screen
New in Windows 8.1SearchBox controlSettingsFlyout, MenuFlyout, and Flyout controlsWindows.Web.HttpClientUX changes
Landscape: scroll horizontallyPortrait: scroll verticallyMinimal: (snap)
Large grids & listsContainerContentChanging eventIncrementalUpdateBehavior (Blend Behavior)
Blend Behaviors
Prism.PubSubEvents.NET 4 and upSilverlight 5Windows Phone 8Windows Store apps 8 and up.
Prism.Mvvm.NET 4.5 and upWindows Phone8Windows Store apps 8 and up
Available via NuGet
PCL Support
Demo for 8.1
AdventureWorksSearchBoxAutorotationScroll position
Create new app using Prism
1. Bootstrap App using MvvmAppBase & Unity2. Create view using VisualStateAwarePage3. Create view model using ViewModel4. Wire view & view model using
ViewModelLocator5. Store view model state using
RestoreableStateAttribute
Universal Windows apps supportMigration guidance for WPF Prism apps to Universal Windows app?
Modularity?Regions?
Occasionally connected apps
Prism Futures (need feedback)
Where to Get GuidanceCommunity: http://prismwindowsruntime.codeplex.com
Documentation: http://aka.ms/prism-winrt-doc
Source: http://aka.ms/prism-winrt-code
Quickstarts: NuGet: Search Prism.StoreApps and Prism.PubSubEventsFrancis: http://blogs.msdn.com/francischeung [email protected]
Blaine: http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine [email protected]
Prism CurahVisual Studio Templates (thanks David Britch)Pluralsight Course (thanks to Brian Noyes)TechDays talk (thanks to Mike Taulty)
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