Several weeks now I’ve been playing with CAL, that is the ‘Composite Application Library’ a robust library from MS Patterns & Practices. I must say I’m quite impressed by this guidance and in particular the enormous work that must have been done all to the love of WPF. WPF’s little sister watched her brother learning to dance. Little steps will show us that she might be a better dancer someday.
CAL and Silverlight go together under the name of Prism, which you can find on codeplex.
http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF
The CAL guidance lets us build a (enterprise-level) client application composed of pieces, that maybe have been designed and developed in different teams. Those pieces will come together and build modules. This module-approach will lead to the composite-application, nicely build up of loosely-coupled parts.
Please read the msdn documentation here
Prism is cooool, because now all those great things we can do in Silverlight too!
Next post I want to share a way to show a usercontrol (by demand) by using a (Global) Command.
