Comments on: Why Shouldn’t I use PRISM? http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/ The Technical Jibber Jabber of Steven Robbins Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jason http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Jason Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:46:51 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-200 Not sure why we need modules. Whats wrong with Unity being able to manage loading of the circular dependencies among services? I wrote my own - and it can handle this. Its simple enough - lock around the service being resitered - place into container for duration of lock - create dependencies inside that lock (hey they can see me cos its inside my lock) - voila - circulars all done. close lock. So why do we need modules? Unfrotunately - that's why i wrote my own - prism is a massive lump of rot on top of what could have been simple and elegant. you never needed modules - they are what the rest of us call assemblies. Not sure why we need modules. Whats wrong with Unity being able to manage loading of the circular dependencies among services? I wrote my own – and it can handle this. Its simple enough – lock around the service being resitered – place into container for duration of lock – create dependencies inside that lock (hey they can see me cos its inside my lock) – voila – circulars all done. close lock. So why do we need modules? Unfrotunately – that’s why i wrote my own – prism is a massive lump of rot on top of what could have been simple and elegant. you never needed modules – they are what the rest of us call assemblies.

]]> By: Igor http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Igor Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:47:23 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-146 Very good Igor Very good

Igor

]]> By: srobbins http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-105 srobbins Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:24:46 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-105 Thanks for the comment, good tip about constructor errors - hopefully this is something your unit test would pick up :-) Thanks for the comment, good tip about constructor errors – hopefully this is something your unit test would pick up :-)

]]> By: Stan Rozenberg http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Stan Rozenberg Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:15:25 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-104 great article, I have done great research on MVVM pattern and have decided to use PRISM for my Silverlight app (although small, it will no doubt grow in size) Its very easy to use, i followed a screen cast on MS Channel 9. I especially like the EventAggrigator and Commanding pattern that they provide for us. One thing that can throw some people off is constructor injections. If your object throws a runtime exception during construction (for instance you forgot to initialize a List) it won't be actually caught by PRISM and you'll get a "construction failed" error instead of Null reference exception error or etc. Took me a while to catch it. great article, I have done great research on MVVM pattern and have decided to use PRISM for my Silverlight app (although small, it will no doubt grow in size)

Its very easy to use, i followed a screen cast on MS Channel 9. I especially like the EventAggrigator and Commanding pattern that they provide for us.

One thing that can throw some people off is constructor injections. If your object throws a runtime exception during construction (for instance you forgot to initialize a List) it won’t be actually caught by PRISM and you’ll get a “construction failed” error instead of Null reference exception error or etc. Took me a while to catch it.

]]> By: srobbins http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-103 srobbins Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:58:16 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-103 Thanks for the comments Erik, it certainly looks more scary than it actually is. It's like a huge Pitbull that's scary when you first see it, but as you get closer it rolls on it's back to get it's belly scratched :-) Thanks for the comments Erik, it certainly looks more scary than it actually is. It’s like a huge Pitbull that’s scary when you first see it, but as you get closer it rolls on it’s back to get it’s belly scratched :-)

]]> By: Erik Mork http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/04/why-shouldn%e2%80%99t-i-use-prism/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Erik Mork Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:06:20 +0000 http://www.grumpydev.com/?p=201#comment-102 Great Post! I especially like the "It's Complicated" bit. For whatever reason, it's hard to get into PRISM. Once you do, it doesn't seem very complicated, but it can take a while to get there. Also, to let you know, I just posted a "10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism" article that contains links to all of our videos and pocast interviews on PRISM: http://www.sparklingclient.com/prism-silverlight/ Thanks! Great Post! I especially like the “It’s Complicated” bit. For whatever reason, it’s hard to get into PRISM. Once you do, it doesn’t seem very complicated, but it can take a while to get there.

Also, to let you know, I just posted a “10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism” article that contains links to all of our videos and pocast interviews on PRISM: http://www.sparklingclient.com/prism-silverlight/

Thanks!

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