Blaine Wastell - patterns & practices client architecture guidance

The Web Client Bundle Binaries on CodePlex are now strong named. This includes: Composite Web Client Automation Composite Web Client Library Contextual AutoComplete Bundle MVP Bundle Responsive Composite Web Client RI Search Bundle Validation Bundle If...

The patterns & practices client team just shipped the Model View Presenter (MVP) Bundle . This bundle helps you understand how to test your ASP.NET Web Forms UI. Additionally it shows how to separate the View from the UI logic and its associated model...

Many of us in patterns & practices have been wanting to put more of our documentation on-line so that when you are evaluating our deliverables you can read the documentation without having to download and install the deliverable on your machine. Well...

Mike just created a blog post about developing ASP.NET controls using ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. The blog post was created by Brian J. Cardiff when he created the RealTimeSearchMonitor that will be coming out with our new Search Bundle. You should check...

An interesting article has been circulating around Microsoft of late regarding Office or Home A.D.D . Ok, let's be honest how many of you are walking outside reading e-mail on you Smart Phone or at home with your family and friends and reading e-mail...

The Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This is not a new version of...

As I was creating the home page for the new Reference Implementation that we just shipped, I realized that we demonstrate how to solve a number of technical challenges . I want to highlight these to give you an idea of the richness of our most current...

The p&p Web Client team has now shipped the Contextual AutoComplete , Validation , Composite Web Client Library , Composite Web Client Automation , and Responsive Composite Web Client Reference Implementation Guidance Bundles. Both Glenn and Mike...

David is doing it again. A new 4 days workshop on CAB & SCSF in October still open positions. I strongly recommend David's class for those of you who want to jump start their understanding of CAB & SCSF. Feedback from previous sessions has been...

We recently released the draft Developer Hands-on Labs for the Smart Client Software Factory May 2007 Release. The labs are available in C#. So try them out and give us your feedback. We are calling the labs draft since we still have some labs to complete...

We just released the Developer Hands-on Labs for the Web Client Software Factory June 2007 Release. The labs are available for both C# and Visual Basic. So try them out and give us your feedback. After completing the labs, you will understand how to use...

We published our first weekly drop on Codeplex last Friday. We decided to break the 2nd release into small components and focus on a single technical challenge. Either Glenn or I will post more on our plans in the near future. As a lesson learned from...

As Glenn posted in his blog, the June 2007 release is now live. In my previous post , I outlined the changes in the release. The factory can be downloaded from here and the source code can be downloaded from here . For instructions on installing the factory...

If you are evaluating the Smart Client Software Factory May 2007 release, we now allow you to download the documentation before downloading the entire factory. You can download the documentation from here . Given feedback from the Web Client Software...

Hey what is going on why are you telling me about Smart Client Software Factory June 2006 Release? Is this back to the future? On the discussion boards, we had a customer ask to download the Smart Client Software Factory June 2006 release, so I just posted...

The WCSF June 2007 Release Candidate is now available on Codeplex. For instructions on installing the factory go here . The June 2007 release of the Web Client Software Factory is an update to the January 2007 release and contains the following changes...

A number of customers ran into problems installing the Smart Client Software Factory's Guidance Package on their machine if they only had C# installed on their machine. The issue is that the factory includes both VB and C# templates. The installer fails...

Glenn Block just blogged about the relationship of Acropolis and CAB check it out. We have been asked about the future of CAB and the Smart Client Program and this blog addresses many of the common questions.

We need you to get coding and help extend the patterns & practices deliverables. Have you gone and checked out the SCSF and WCSF contrib community sites yet? If not why not? Both Tom and Glenn announced the contrib sites a few weeks past and we need...

A number of people having been asking when will WCSF R1.1 ship. We are now going through the final documentation and testing. The release is coming out later than originally announced due to the delays in the Smart Client Software Factory. We anticipate...

We received a number of questions on how to upgrade from the SCSF June 2006 release to SCSF May 2007 release. Ezequeil Jadib's blog describes the steps to get the factory installed. The documentation also provides a How-to topic on upgrading from SCSF...

We are excited that you can now download the SCSF - May 2007 release . The new release provides support for .NET 3.0. The release is propagating to the download servers and should be available when you read this. If not, be patient and try a little later...

SCSF is almost ready to release on the web. It should be out in the next couple of days. It look a little longer than originally planned. We spent more time working on the usability of the offline capabilities. SCSF will include Enterprise Library...

I want to introduce Glenn Block who is our new Product Manager for the p&p client program. As you can see from his blog posting , he is passionate about the challenges we are addressing in patterns & practices including model driven design. We...

During the Smart Client Software Factory R2 project, the team improved the msi by adding the "Dependency Checker" and allowing the source code and documentation to be downloaded without .NET 3.0 installed on your machine. We made these changes based upon...