I recently had the pleasure of speaking at CodeStock 2009 and was very impressed with the conference overall. The folks behind this conference put in a lot of work and did a really great job. I got the chance to see some really good presentations as well. I look forward to attending CodeStock in the future.
The code and slides will be posted soon at the CodeStock site, but I wanted to note a few things about the code that I’m including for those that were present for my talk on Prism.
- The AlbumSearch solution included is the one we worked through in the presentation. In the interest of time, I had skipped the creation of separate olders/namespaces for the Views, ViewModels, etc during the presentation. For the download, I have cleaned that up and placed everything in a much more realistic (cleaner) project structure.
- While creating the SearchCommand in the SearchModuleViewModel during the presentation, I had skipped adding a CanExecute handler in the interest of time. Someone asked me about it later and I promised to provide an example in the download and I have done so. You’ll notice that the Search button now enables only when there are at least 3 letters typed in the Search Box. (NOTE: The only Artist Names defined in my test data are: Pink Floyd, Mars Volta, and Tool. Anything
else will likely blow up as there is no Exception handling in the demo). - During the presentation, I mentioned a much larger solution that goes through each concept of Prism such as Modularity (and the various ways to load Modules), UI Composition, etc. I have included my PrismConcepts solution in the download as well.
- I added a link to a WPF and Silverlight Comparison paper from Wintellect to the Resources slide as promised.
I think that covers it. Thanks again to the organizers, the sponsors, the presenters, and all the attendees of CodeStock.
Here’s the Code and Slides.