Technical Concepts

Figure 1 illustrates a number of technical concepts specific to the Composite Application Guidance. These technical concepts are implementations of the design patterns and concepts identified as important for building composite user interface (UI) applications.

Figure 1

Composite Application Guidance concepts

For information about the Composite Application Guidance technical concepts, see the following topics:

• Bootstrapper
• Container and Services
• UI Composition
• Module
• Shell and View
• Event Aggregator
• Commands
• Communication
• Multi-Targeting
• UI Design Guidance Overview
• Deploying WPF Applications with ClickOnce
• Deploying Silverlight Applications

For background information about concepts that are important to understanding the Composite Application Guidance, see the following topics:

• Modularity design concept
• UI Composition design concept
• Container design concept
• Multi-Targeting design concept
• Patterns in the Composite Application Library
• Contrasting Silverlight and WPF

For an introduction to the Composite Application Library, see Composite Application Library.

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