Release Notes 6.0.0

Prism

• Moved MVVM, PubSubEvents, and Logging in core PCL (breaking)

Namespaces

• Removed Microsoft.Practices from all namespaces (breaking)

MVVM

• ViewModelLocator convention change to append "Model" for views that end in "View", and to append "ViewModel" otherwise. (breaking)

Commanding

• Added ObservesProperty method which automatically listens for property change notifications and automatically calls RaiseCanExecuteChanged
• Added ObservesCanExcute method which automatically listens for property change notifications and automatically calls RaiseCanExecuteChanged and uses the same bool property as the CanExecute delegate. (This is a boolean property only)

Prism.Wpf

Namespaces

• Removed Microsoft.Practices from all namespaces (breaking)

Bootstrapper

• Added ConfigureViewModelLocator virtual method

Interactivity

• Interactivity is now part of Prism.Wpf
• Added virtual CreateWindow method to PopupWindowAction
• Added AutoEnable property to InvokeCommandAction to turn off the disabling of objects
• Added WindowStyle property to PopupWindowAction
• Fixed bug in which the InteractionRequestTrigger would not raise notifications when navigating away from and back to a view
• Added RaiseAsync method to InteractionRequest

Events

• Add – DelegateReference
• Removes dependency on Prism.PubSubEvents
• Remove - CompositionPresentationEvent (marked obsolete)
• Remove - DispactherEventSubScription (marked obsolete)
• Remove - IDispatcherFacade (marked obsolete)
• Remove – DefaultDispatcher (marked obsolete)
• Move – WeakDelegatesManager from Regions to Events (namespace matches events)

Modularity

• Remove – ModuleAttribute.StartupLoaded property (marked obsolete)
• Check for null on line 53 of ModuleInitializer; if null, don’t call initialize. This allows an override of CreateModule to return null.

ViewModel

• Remove – NotifcationObject (marked obsolete)
• Remove – PropertySupport (marked obsolete)

AssemblyInfo

• Fix XAML namespace issue (http://www.codeplex.com/prism)
• Created new xmlns namespace http://prismlibrary.com/

ViewModelLocationProvider

• Moved ViewModelLocator into Prism.Wpf
• Change AutowireViewModelChanged to provide a call back to set DataContext (Removes need for IView)
• Removed IView (breaking)

BindableBase

• Add CallerMemberName to OnPropertyChanged

Regions

• Removed RegionManagerExtentions.cs
• Moved all RegionManagerExtensions into IRegionManager
• Changed NavigationParameters to derive from Dictionary<string, object> (breaking)
• Fixed bug which allowed duplicate parameters in NavigationContext (breaking)

##Prism.Wpf.Unity

• Added RegisterTypeForNavigation extension method to make it easier to register types for Prism navigation