Developing Line of Business apps using WPF and Silverlight

Blaine WastellProgram ManagerMicrosoftSession Code:

AgendaWhat Is Prism and What Does It Do?

Client Application ChallengesWhat’s In The Box?

Modularity PatternsUI Composition PatternsSeparated Presentation PatternsCommanding & Eventing PatternsMulti-Targeting Sharing Code Between WPF And Silverlight

The Challenge

The Solution

The Problem:Client Applications are Challenging!Beyond the Bling – How To Make The ApplicationDynamic, Customizable, Extensible, Testable?

The Solution:Break App Into PiecesManage Dependencies Between PiecesRe-assemble App From Pieces

Prism – Patterns For Composite Client Apps

Composite Client Applications

Prism – Composite Client Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

LibraryReference ImplementationDocumentationQuick-Starts & How-To’sCommunity – CodePlex

Prism 1.0 – WPFReleased July 2008

Prism 2.0 – WPF & SilverlightReleased Feb 2009

Prism – What’s In The Box?

Reference Implementation

The StockTrader Reference Implementation

demo

Prism Core Concepts

Modules

Unit Of Application AssemblyCollection of Related ComponentsFeature, Services, Views, Data AccessSlice & Dice: Mandatory, Optional, Role Specific

Unit Of DevelopmentIndependent DevelopmentIndependent Testing

Unit Of DeploymentUp-Front, Background or On-Demand

ModulesModule Discovery

Pluggable CatalogsModule Loading

Background or On-Demand

Module Loader

Extended InPrism 2.0!

XAP

XAP

XAP

Modules and Catalogsdemo

Shell – Application Host WindowRegions – Named Areas For View PlacementViews – Module UI & Presentation LogicView Injection Visual Composition

UI Composition

Region Region

Region<ContentControl RegionManager.RegionName= “DetailsRegion” />

IPositionPresentationModel presentationModel = …;

IRegion mainRegion = regionManager.Regions[ "MainRegion" ];

mainRegion.Add( presentationModel.View );

<ItemsControl RegionManager.RegionName= "MainRegion">

UI Composition

View Discovery Visual Composition:Less ComplexBlack Box ‘App Assembly’ CompositionSelect Views & Pull into Region

Region Region

Region<ContentControl RegionManager.RegionName= "DetailsRegion”/>

<ItemsControl RegionManager.RegionName= "MainRegion”/>

New InPrism 2.0!

regionManager.RegisterViewWithRegion( "MainRegion", typeof( MainView ) );

UI Compositiondemo

Commands and EventsDelegate & Composite Commands

Simplified Command HandlingEvent Aggregator

Loosely Coupled Pub/Sub Events

Module B

CustomerPresenter

Module A

OrderPresenter

EventAggregator

Subscribe

Publ

ish

Event

Separated Presentation

Presenter

Model

View

PresentationModel ModelView

Prism 1.0Supervising PresenterPresentation Model

Prism 2.0More Concrete Guidance on Using These Patterns…“Model-View-ViewModel”How To Be Designer FriendlyModeling Presentation State (Not UI State)Ultra Thin Views – Data Templates

WPF

SILV

ERLI

GH

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CLR - Silverlight CLR Desktop

BCL BCL

BROWSER DESKTOP

Multi-TargetingUser Experiences

Desktop – In the Office, Full Functionality, Offline CapableRIA – Out of the Office, Functional Subset, Online

How to Share Code & Components?

Controllers

Models

Presenters

Views

Models

Controllers

Presenters

Views

Multi-Targeting: StrategiesStart With LCD – SilverlightSeparated Presentation StrategiesSingle Source, Cross CompiledLinks and Parallel Project StructuresIf Not:

#IF SILVERLIGHTPartial Classes

Partial MethodsSeparate Classes/Services

Multi-Targetingdemo

SummaryPrism 1.0

Library of Patterns for Enterprise Client AppsTargets WPF on the Desktop

Prism 2.0Extends Prism to Silverlight RIA ApplicationsExtended Patterns for UI Composition, Separated Presentation, ModularityMulti-Targeting – Extend user experience & re-use code and components

Download from MSDN & CodePlex

Send us feedback & ideas for Prism 3.0!

Where Can You Find Prismwww.microsoft.com/prismwww.codeplex.com/prismhttp://blogs.msdn.com/blaine

question & answer

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