What's included in this drop
The following assets are being shipped in the current drop
- The Project Linker tool installer
- Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight
- Silverlight Ports of:
- the Modularity namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Regions namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Events namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Commanding namespace for Composite Application Library for Silverlight
- the Composite.UnityExtensions namespace for Silverlight
- Stock Trader Reference Implementation on Silverlight (work in progress)
- The Multi-Targeting Visual Studio templates
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight Work-in-progress documentation
- QuickStarts:
- Multi--Targeting QuickStart
- Modularity QuickStarts for WPF (Directory Look Up and Configuration QS)
- Modularity QuickStarts for Silverlight (Defining Modules in Code QS and Remote Module Loading QS)
- View Discovery Composition QuickStart
- View Injection Composition QuickStart
- Event Aggregator QuickStart
- Commanding Quickstart
Major changes in this drop
- Removed .Silverlight and .Desktop extensions from the Assembly names, both in the Library and in all the Quickstarts.
- Renamed RegionExtensions class to RegionContext and RegionExtensions.GetRegionContext() method to RegionContext.GetObservableContext()
- Moved RegionExtensions.GetObservableRegion() method from RegionExtensions class to RegionManager class.
- Integrated new UI design for Stock Trader Reference Implementation.
- Many updates to Documentation
- Included API CHM file
- Added shortcut .Bat files to make it easier to open the solutions.
- Bug fixes
- Added missing XML comments to the code of the Composite Application Library.
System Requirements
Before installing, ensure that your computer meets the following system requirements:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (the .NET Framework 3.5 includes WPF)
- Microsoft Silverlight 2
- Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. (For download and installation instructions see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1 for compiling Project Linker
- Silverlight Unit Testing Framework (For download and installation instructions see http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightut)
- White is needed to run the acceptance tests. (For download and installation instructions see http://www.codeplex.com/white)
Installation
To install the Composite Application Guidance assets, run the PrismV2Source.exe file to extract the source into any folder of your choice.
NOTE: 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.
Please Note
The Microsoft Silverlight installer automatically downloads and installs the latest version available. Therefore, it could install a newer version of Silverlight than the one that was used to developed the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight.
A newer version could introduce breaking changes that affect the library. At the time of this drop's realease, the version of Silverlight used is 2.0.31005.0.
Several links in the Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight documentation may not be working and some sect