Top 10 Things to know about Silverlight Prism(sparklingclient.com)

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Prism is one of the hottest topics in Silverlight. Here, I provide the top 10 things that I think every developer should know about Prism. read more...

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Downloading and Building Prism(sparklingclient.com)

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Prism is amazing. It was pretty much made by geniuses. Unfortunately, it’s kind of hard to figure out 1) where to download it and 2) what to do with it after you’ve downloaded it. This is a guide that shows you how to get up and running with Silverlight Prism. read more...

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Regions in Prism Video(development-guides.silverbaylabs.org)

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Regions in Prism are kind of like Master Pages. They allow us to have master and sub-views. If you're interested in composing views separately and then bringing them together in the running application, Regions are for you. As with all of the things in Prism, Regions are a part of the buffet. You can use them or not at your discretion. read more...

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Testing, Module Catalog and Unity in Prism(development-guides.silverbaylabs.org)

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Modularity allows applications to be broken down into discrete pieces. This allows easier testing, better maintainability and the ability to distribute an application across multiple teams. This video explores the modularity support in Prism. The first part of the video covers Unity and Unit Testing. Inversion of Control using Dependency Injection and Service Location are both covered. The second part of the video details modules and how they're loaded by the Module Catalog. read more...

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Prism in Silverlight - Introductory Screencast(development-guides.silverbaylabs.org)

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This tutorial shows you how to create a Prism application in Silverlight. This hyper-video contains code you can actually see and copy. If you're just interested in just the code, see the Prism code in text form. Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this. This guide shows you how to get started writing a Prism application in Silverlight. read more...

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Behaviors in Blend 3(development-guides.silverbaylabs.org)

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Behaviors are a new feature in Blend/Silverlight 3 and WPF. They allow designers to handle user interactions in XAML, and they also provide a clean division of concerns. Unfortunately, in the Blend 3 Preview, there aren't any behaviors included. This guide shows you how to write a behavior from scratch and also gives a look at a great new behavior written by Laurent Bugnion. read more...

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Silverlight Best Practices - ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (development-guides.silverbaylabs.org)

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This is a hyper-video screencast on MVVM in Silverlight 2. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM or ViewModel) is a pattern for separating concerns in technologies that use databinding. For Silverlight 2, it can help to make more maintainable applications by removing much of the code in the code-behind files and allowing full testing of business logic. This video shows how to do a simple implementation of MVVM in Silverlight 2 without additional helpers (like Prism, Silverlight.FX, etc.). read more...

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