There is no place like 127.0.0.1
Weeks ago we shipped the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and with the Prism team we started to spike around the migration of the Composite Application Library to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The good news is that yesterday we published that spike. (A ’spike’ is a small and quickly developed sample application in order to mitigate some risks).
After downloading and decompressing the latest change set of the source control, you will find a new folder named spikes that contains the Composite Application Library migrated to Silverlight. As you may imagine, there were many challenges that we had to address in order to make it “work” (Rob Eisenberg wrote two articles describing differences between WPF and Silverlight that you might want to check: There’s some darkness in your silver light and Silverlight Problems That Affect Me).
Note: The migration is not complete, we used the spike to have a perspective of the challenges.
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About ejadib
Ezequiel Jadib is a Senior Lead Developer for Southworks, a software development company that provides consulting and development services for Fortune 50 companies around the world. He has worked for numerous projects with Microsoft, including the Smart Client Software Factory, the Web Client Software Factory, the Multi-Tenant Database Performance Guide, the Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight (Prism) and the Tech-Ed 2008 Keynote demo. He recently lead the efforts to create a set of samples and hands-on labs about the Live Services Platform, and also lead the development team for PDC 2008 demo highlighting SQL Data Platform.
He is continuously contributing to the Client Application Development community sharing knowledge around Web Client, Smart Client and Composite WPF thought his blog, Codeplex and forums.