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Sunday, September 07, 2008

MS and patterns and practices News- Prism 2.0, App Arch Guide project, and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

The patterns and practices crew and MS has announced a few interesting projects they are working on.

patterns and practices Application Architecture Guide (Overview from CodePlex)
The Application Architecture Guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.

Check it out here

Prism Overview from CodePlex
The Composite Application Guidance for WPF can help you split the development of your WPF client application across multiple development teams, each responsible for the development of a piece of the application, and help you seamlessly compose those pieces together into a client application. The guidance includes a reference implementation, reusable library code (called the Composite Application Library), documentation, quick start tutorials and hands-on labs

Info on Composite Application Guidance for WPF(Prism) version 1.0 here

Prism 2.0 Links-
Scope for Prism 2.0
Hello Prism 2.0! - Includes an overview of the new Silverlight Architecture.


Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)- Overview from CodePlex
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed. If you are building extensible applications, extensible frameworks and application extensions, then MEF is for you.

A warning about using MEF based on the licensing. - Note the Glenn Block responded at the bottom of the post

Check out the MEF Community Site

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