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Smart Client Software Factory V2 - May 2007 Release

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Here is the latest version of the Smart Client Software Factory.  If you have implemented SCSF or CAB, I would highly suggset you taking a look at this update.  It will align very well to some things that are coming out in the future.  While I cant blog about those things, suffice it to say that those folks in Redmond have been doing a lot of work around the smart client.  Anyway SCSF is now in V2 and has a lot of great new features:

  • Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability CAB extensions  and View with presenter recipe
  • Offline application blocks and recipes; the application blocks support asynchronous calls to WCF web services.
  • Richer ClickOnce Deployment capabilities
  • Enhanced guidance packages which includes code generation Visual Basic .NET 2005 
  • Improved installation with a new dependency checker

If you need to do an inplace upgrade on your development machine, here is a great set of instructions.  Apparently there were a lot of folks that were mystified as to how the upgrade worked.