This is a 305 page book. A very well written book with colour diagrams and very small print. One that most of us want to read as a book NOT as a wretched chm file or seemingly endless html pages. If you’ve got a color printer you want the pdf version but they hide that away on the Codeplex site so you need to go there first.

If you don’t read the book you end up as I did over the weekend hearing ‘experts’ saying PRISM is more poor P&P implementation that doesn’t deliver what’s needed. Experts who tell you guidelines on not just WHAT to use and WHEN but more importantly when NOT to use it.

The “book” does exactly that. It does it upfront right on page 5. It does it again for each and every pattern it describes. But of course we’re developers we don’t read books right?! Microsoft should just give us the software and it should just do what we want it to do! We shouldn’t have to actually THINK about what we need to do and plan it out!