>>>>>I just received a "Microsoft Community Contributor Award" for 2011 in my email.
>>>>>
>>>>>I assume it's for the answers I give in the WPF forums over on MSDN.
>>>>>
>>>>>Not sure how big of a deal that is, but it sure made my day. <g>
>>>>
>>>>Congratulations.
>>>>Are you getting to spend enough time with WPF these days?
>>>>I've been shunted off to webby stuff so some Silverlight - but it's not the same....
>>>>Should be back on WPF full-time within the month - but I thought that 3 months ago :-{
>>>
>>>Doing quite a bit, and loving it. <g>
>>>
>>>Started moving my libraries over to Prism and using it's MEF capabilities in January. I still have a lot of back end stuff in VFP, but the front end is all moving over to WPF.
>>
>>I'm afraid I'm in two minds about Prism....
>>Started using it but, in a lot of design scenarios, I'm not convinced that the benefiits outweigh the extra work and planning that is involved.
>>Seems to me that a project has to be BIG and involve a LOT of people before there is a clear advantage.
>>But, as usual, I could be wrong :-{
>
>Have you looked at MVVM Light ? Seems like a very quick way to get MVVM up an running for about 90% of use cases and even has snippets to roll out a lot of the code blocks.
>
>http://galasoft.ch/mvvm/installing/manually/

Thx. Looks interesting. As soon as I get some time.....