This is the seventh video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook.  In this video, we added a new Contacts module to the application.  We went through the necessary steps to add this module to both the Silverlight and the WPF applications.  We created a new module, and added views, OutlookBar groups, and Ribbon tabs to the new module.  Along the way, we ran…

Wow, that was fast!  The year 2012 just flew by.  It’s amazing how much can happen in a year, and it is hard to appreciate what you have accomplished without looking back at the road that got you where you are today.

Obviously the first major event to happen to me during the year 2012 was an opportunity to be a Product Manager for Infragistics’ XAML tools.  This was exciting and terrifying all at the same time…

I did a ton of traveling and speaking at various events and user groups in 2012.  During this time, I decided to start a fun little contest between user groups that I presented at.  If I came to speak at your user group, you probably remember me taking a picture of your user group.  Well, you may also remember me mentioning that your user group’s picture would be entered into a contest at the end of the year.

The Rules…

Back in October, during the //BUILD/ conference, I attended the Microsoft DPE Party Cruise.  Let’s just say the DPE group knows how to throw a party.  I’ll leave those stories for another day.  During this party, Planar was raffling off three of their much anticipated Helium 27” touch displays.  Well, that was my lucky day, because I was one of the lucky winners of the Helium 27” touch monitor.  This display retails for…