Development for Prism V2 (formally known as Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) is underway. We have a number of items in our backlog, the top items are multi-targeting for WPF and Silverlight and UI composition on Silverlight. This first drop we are focusing in on multi-targeting.
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
Welcome to the first drop of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight. This file contains information that can be useful in using the guidance. See the full readme in the source.zip or
Prism V2 Drop 1 Readme for more information.
What's included in this drop
- The Project Linker tool installer
- The Multi-Targeting QuickStart
- The Multi-Targeting Visual Studio templates
Requirements
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (the .NET Framework 3.5 includes WPF)
- Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2
- Silverlight Unit Testing Framework (For download and installation instructions see http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightut)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0 for running or compiling Project Linker
Installation
To install the QuickStart unzip the Source.zip file into any folder of your choice.
NOTE 1: In order to compile from source, you will need to add the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework files to the LIB\Silverlight\UnitTestFramework folder. See
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightut for the files.
NOTE 2: For Security purposes both MSI and ZIP file may need to be unblock when downloaded.
- Right-click on the downloaded fill and select Properties.
- On the General Tab at the bottom is the Security attribute.
- Check for the following message : This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.
- If yes then press the Unblock button. If no, then the file is already unblock.
To install the Project Linker, run the "CompositeApplicationGuidanceProjectLinker.msi" file and follow the on-screen installation steps. This install needs to be run elevated and currently does not auto elevate. To do this, from an administrative command prompt run msiexec /i CompositeApplicationGuidanceProjectLinker.msi.
Please Note
We are not aware of any issues with installing the Project Linker in Visual Studio, however, we have not tested all scenarios for the Project Linker
and we strongly encourage that you use a recoverable version of Visual Studio.
Alternatively, you can compile and run the Project Linker in the Visual Studio Experimental Hive, see "Running the Project Linker in the Visual Studio Experimental Hive" section in the readme file included within the zip.