.NET Rx and Composite Framework (Prism) Event aggregator

Question

Hi there,

Anybody knows how .NET Rx will affect the Event aggregator in WPF Prism composite app framework?

Tony

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TW

Answer 1

Hi Tony,

Looks like we should be able to create an adapter between EventBase and IObservable. I'll file a bug to look into this.

Thanks for the feedback!

Jeffrey

Answer 2

Hi,

Someone is already thinking about it, use nRoute instead of Prism :)
http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/2009/09/29/Introducing-nRouteToolkit-for-Silverlight-(Part-I).aspx

mn

Answer 3

Any update on this?

I am trying to push Rx into the greenfiled core framework we are currently building.  It uses Prism and currently relies on the event aggregator to signal events between the various UI modules. What I am struggling to understand is how Rx would fit into this model and why would I choose it over the event aggregator?

The nRouteToolkit creates ObservableChannels that leverage IObserver and IObservable to substitute the event aggregator. Is this really worth the effort?

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Pure Complexity

Answer 4

Nick: I wrote an adaptor for Rx to Prism's IEventAggregator that may help.

http://richarddingwall.name/2010/03/30/reactive-extensions-and-prism-linq-to-your-event-aggregator/