PRISM 5 Important Features

According to Microsoft with new version of PRISM, it includes guidance in several new areas, resulting in new code in the Prism Library for WPF, new and updated QuickStarts, and updated documentation. Compared to 4.1, it even includes bug fixes and respond to community requests.


One of the main changes which I was really looking for a long time is The PopupWindowAction class, which is added to the Prism.Interactivity assembly to open a custom window in response to an interaction request being raised. The InvokeCommandAction action provided by Prism now passes trigger parameters to the associated command. In my current project there were many scenario in which we needed to include the Popup Window but since in all the previous version this feature was not available we need to have a work around or we used to develop the other way round. Hopefully now we can actually make use of this features in our project for all the future project.


Other is, the NavigationParameters class can now be used to pass object parameters during navigation, using the overloads of the RequestNavigate method of a Region or RegionManager instance.


For more details you can visit MSDN here.


Happy Coding


Rishi