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Are you WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone developer and used Microsoft’s patterns and practices library to build your applications? If you are, then you might want to know that Microsoft’s patterns and practices team have just released Prism 5.0. All the applications built using the previous versions of Prism are now broken. So, in this artifact, I’ll be discussing about the new assemblies, new objects and deprecated objects which can/can’t be used with Prism 4.1 and Prism 5.0. Downloading Prism 5.0 Prism 5.0 can be downloaded and installed either from patterns and practices site having URL as http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/ or by using Nuget package inside Visual Studio. Mentioned link also discusses about all the changes which are part of Prism 5.0 Supported Platforms Let’s have a quick look at the supported platforms of Prism 5.0. While working with previous versions of Prism (i.e. 4.1), one was able to create applications like WPF (.Net 4.0), Silverlight 5 and Window...

When dealing with XAML, many of you might have came across resizing issues in which your control is getting resize but the text/image inside the control is not getting resize as per the window size(it can be other user control). So, to deal with this Microsoft provide us with a Viewbox control, in which user can set the resizing aspects as per the need and requirement. So, this article focuses mainly on the properties provided by Viewbox control with proper sample code and output. MORE...