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Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications.

• Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications. Using design patterns that embody important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you to design and build applications using loosely coupled components that can evolve independently but which can be easily and seamlessly integrated into the overall application. Such applications are often referred to as composite applications.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
PrismV5.exe SHA1: 646a07390811de24a6ca78d84a597f0ab79cc453	3.87 MB

• WPF applications built using this guidance will require the .NET Framework 4.5 to run.Before you can use the Prism Library, the following must be installed:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate edition
  • • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or 4.5.1 (installed with Visual Studio 2013)
  You may also want to install the following:
  • Project Linker 2.2

• Detailed installation instructions are provided in the Readme file. We recommend all developers read this document.
  To install the Prism assets, right-click the Prismv5.exe file, and then click Run as administrator. This will extract the source code and reference API documentation into the folder of your choice.
  Prism provides a shortcut file to each of the code assets.