Recently I've been having lots of conversations about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), the Composite Application Library (CAL or PRISM), and how they relate. One point of confusion that many people has comes when they try to force the two solutions to work together. In a recent conversation, I mentioned that PRISM has some great ...

Series recap: PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 1 of 3: Unity GluePRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF FriendlyPRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 3 of 3: Dynamic MEF Modules in PRISM In the final part of this series, I will show a dynamically loaded module (using PRISM) that takes full advantage of MEF. Here is a preview of the final product, ...

I started a project to update my personal website using Silverlight. The goal is to use Prism/Composite Application Guidance to build out a nice site that demonstrates some Silverlight capabilities and make the source code available as a reference. One of the first pieces I chose to tackle was ensuring I could facilitate deep linking using ...

This is a simple example that covers a few advanced topics: Silverlight navigation combined with Prism and on-demand loading, search engine optimization, and use of the visual state manager. It is a shell for a biography site I was building.