February 2010 Entries

Build enterprise applications with WPF, WCF, EF and Prism. Tutorial 09.

Today we will see the modularity concept of Prism. Probably the best part of it, as it will allow us to build a real plug-and-play application where the main Shell won’t know anything about the modules. Discover and load the module. What does it mean? As we saw in the previous article, we have declared a reference in our Shell for the hello world module. In this way we force the Shell to be compiled including in the shell project a reference to the Hello World module. Fine, but what happen if we want to replace this module...

2 Years of blog.raffaeu.com.

Today it’s 2 years that I have opened my blog in English and it’s two years that I moved to Bermuda web site. I should do some considerations about it but it’s not the right time for me so I will try to be as less negative as I can. Job and career. I moved here 2 years ago as a Senior Software Developer working for a public Company as the IT Manager. In this company I was in charge of the entire (small) IT department. Unfortunately, after the Market Crisis of the 2009 I was ‘convinced’...

Build enterprise application with WPF, WCF, Prism and Entity Framework. Tutorial 08.

Update: source code and documentation are now available on CodePlex at this address: http://prismtutorial.codeplex.com/ Today we will build the skeleton of our application using the latest version of Prism, available in this section of MSDN: Prism February 2009. One of the reasons that I didn't write anything concrete until now is the fact that I knew that the new version of Prism was coming this month. The classic Hello World application. As for every tutorial, is always better to start with the classic Hello World in order to understand, step by step, how...