Microsoft Prism Developer’s Guide

Strategic Data Systems (SDS) team members, Ryan Cromwell and Steve Gentile, served as advisors to the Patterns and Practices Developer’s Guide, Prism, released by Microsoft Corporation in November
2010.

Read the Prism Developer’s Guide at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en‐us/library/gg406140.aspx.

Microsoft Overview:
The Prism Developer’s Guide is intended for software developers building Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications and Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7 applications that typically feature multiple screens, rich user interaction and data visualization, and that embody significant presentation and business logic. These applications typically interact with a number of back‐end systems and services and, using a layered architecture, may be physically deployed across multiple tiers. Using design patterns that embody important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you to design and build applications using loosely coupled components that can evolve independently but which can be easily and seamlessly integrated into the overall application. Such applications are known as often referred to as composite applications.

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