Interview Questions & Answers for Prism WPF

Interview  Questions & Answers for Prism WPF

1. Define PRISM

This a framework used for developing complex applications for WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone. The framework utilizes MVVM, Command patterns, DI, and Separation of Concerns to get loose coupling.

2. What are the benefits of PRISM?

Modular development: - As we are developing components as independent units we can assign these units to different developers and do modular parallel development. With parallel development project will be delivered faster.

High reusability: - As the components are developed in individual units we can plug them using PRISM and create composed UI in an easy way.

3. What is Bootstarpper?

   Bootstrapper is a class starts the shell. For example bootstrapper for a prism MEF application
   which inherits from MefBootstrapper.

Example

 class Bootstrapper : UnityBootstrapper
    {
        protected override DependencyObject CreateShell()
        {
            return Container.Resolve<MainWindow>();
        }

        protected override void InitializeShell()
        {
            Application.Current.MainWindow.Show();
        }
    }

4. Is PRISM a part of WPF?

    No, PRISM is a separate installation.

5. Does it provide dependency injection? Does it relate to MEF at all in this way?

Yes. It originally included Unity, but the latest release includes using MEF for DI.

6. What is Module?

    Modules are classes that implement the IModule interface. A module in Prism is simply a loosely coupled functional unit in form of a class library project that typically represents a set of related concerns and includes a collection of related components, such views, view models, models and other classes.

Example

[Module(ModuleName = "TestModule", OnDemand = false)]
[ModuleDependency("ModuleDockModule")]
public class TestModuleModule : IModule
{ ...

7. How many ways modules can be registered?

   Modules can be registered from  -

• Directly inside code
• Using Configuration
• Using Directory Inspection

8. What is Module Dependency

   Module can have dependency on other module. Prism provides module dependency management.

We need to set DependsOn property in a ModuleInfo class instance before adding module. DependsOn requires a collection of module names.

Example: 

[Module(ModuleName = ModuleNames.ModuleA)]    
[ModuleDependency(ModuleNames.ModuleD)]
public class ModuleAModule : IModule
{

9. What is Container or Dependency Injection Container?

   Core Prism library is container agnostic. The following are examples of containers that are used as
   dependency injection containers in Prism.

• ModularityWithMef
• ModularityWithUnity 

10. How do you register modules?
    Bootstrapper override CreateModuleCatalog and ConfigureModuleCatalog methods.


11. By default does MEF create singleton instance of objects?
   Yes, by default MEF creates singleton instance.

12. How to specify so that MEF does not create singleton instance?
    Decorate with attribute to indicate that the created instance is not shared.
    [PartCreationPolicy(CreationPolicy.NotShared)]

Happy Programming!!

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