prism-knowledgebase/README.md

KnowledgeBase for Prism Guidance

• Official Site
• Existing Mitech-wpf use Prism 4.x. The only official legacy reference is based on Prism 6
  • Its using MEF Ioc (Dependency Injection). The MEF DI was removed from Prism 7.x and above. Only Unity Dependency Injection supported from Prism 7.x onward
  • MEF vs Unity Modularity Quick Start
• The latest Prism Library is 8.1
• Prism 8 support NET 5 and dotnet Framework. Prism 6.x and below only DotNet Framework 4.8 and below.
• Mitech-wpf was migrated to Prism 6.3 on Feb 2023, as this is the last version to support MEF DI Container.

Legacy Documentation

• Prism 4 Demo. Migrated to Prism 6 link
• Prism 4 QuickGuide
• Prism 4 Guide
• Prism 5
• Another nice link
• Nuget : Prism 4.1

Migration Guides

• Prism 4.1 to 5

  • Microsoft.Practices.Prism.ViewModel namespace deprecated. Please use Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Mvvm
  • The BindableBase class was added to simplify INotifyPropertyChanged interface.
  • EventAggregator Namespace and API Changes. NEW Prism.PubSubEvents namespace
  • Regions Namespace API Changes
    • UriQuery class was replaced with the NavigationParameters
  • Namespace changes
  • Refer to Prism 5 pdf for legacy changes

  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.ViewModel;
  
  // change to
  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Mvvm;
  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Mvvm.Desktop;
  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.ShareInterfaces;
  

• Prism 5 to 6

  • Breaking Changes
    • Removed Microsoft.Practices from all namespaces
  • Add Nuget Prism.Mef 6.3

  # .NET cli
  > dotnet add package Prism.Mef --version 6.3.0
  
  # Package Manager
  PM> NuGet\Install-Package Prism.Mef -Version 6.3.0
  

  • Created new xmlns namespace http://prismlibrary.com/
  • Namespace changes

   // Prism 4
   using Microsoft.Practices.Prism;
   using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.ViewModel;
  
   // change to Prism 6.3
   using Prism.Mvvm
  

   // Prism 4
   using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.MefExtensions.Modularity;
   using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Modularity;
  
   // change to Prism 6.3
   using Prism.Mef.Modularity;
   using Prism.Modularity;
  
  

  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Regions;
  
  // change to
  using Prism.Regions
  

  using Microsoft.Practices.Prism.Commands;
  
  // change to 
  using Prism.Commands;
  

• Prism 6 to 8

  • Bootstrapper class need to move to Application class
  • use xmlns:prism="http://prismlibrary.com/"

• Prism 7.1

  • BIG changes. Release Notes
  • No longer be shipping or supporting MEF for WPF
  • New Prism.IoC namespace
  • For Prism.WPF, introduced new PrismApplication base class. Bootstrapper class deprecated.

• Prism 7 to 8

  • Release Notes
  • AutoWireViewModel is now default to true prism:ViewModelLocator.AutoWireViewModel="True"
  • Removed ILoggerFacade. Use Prism.Plugin.Logging

Online Tutorial

• Prism 6 Unity - VS2015

Tutorials

• View-ViewModel