Thanks for your reply. PRISM is a part of the Composite Application Guidelines for WPF and Silverlight. Here is a link

http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Learn%20Prism. Its is basically a ui framework for WPF / Silverlight. I was wanting to be able to use MM security and the databinding. The framework uses regions to display user controls that contain the different views of the data. As far as data context, I was creating that in Expressions blend to bind the data to a grid. I did get the properties to display, but the properties such as control id are not visible.

Let me know if you have any other questions. In the mean time, I am continuing to try and get this to work! Thanks again.