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Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:33 AM

Prism, CAB, and WinForms futures

On the forums , Bil asked the questions below. Just wondering about guidance here. I have clients who are not ready or able to move to 3.5/VS2008 yet but need to start developing new Smart Client applications. They're also not ready to move to WPF as
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:06 AM

SCSF 2008 - go get it!

After many months of promising , the wait is over. Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 has shipped! (not shiped) Highlights of the new release include: Runs on GAT/GAX 1.4 Full support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Supports Entlib
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:22 AM

What is Differentiated UI? (and how it pertains to Composite WPF)

Over the past few weeks we've been doing a lot of deep exploration into what it means to build a composite UI within WPF. As soon as you set your foot into WPF land you come into contact with a concept known as Differentiated UI . You'll hear this term
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 7:03 AM

Blaine and me talking about patterns and practices

Several weeks ago, me and Blaine were interviewed by Scott Swigart and Sean Cambell of howsoftwareisbuilt.com . The site interviews various people in the industry around open-source and closed-source development. The list of existing interviewees includes
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:08 AM

We're revving SCSF and WCSF for VS2008

My blog has been quiet the past few days as I've been busy working on user stories for the new Composite WPF (formerly WPF Composite Client). You'll be hearing more about this in the coming weeks as we get more clarity, by here's some good news: 1. We're
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:55 AM

Exploring interactive application architecture patterns (MVC, MVP, etc)

Just came across this great gem from Derek Greer that discusses Model-View-Controller,  Model-View-Presenter, and Presentation-Abstraction-Control pattern. Very comprehensive including discussion of different variants of each of the patterns. If
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:38 AM

Ward Bell shares his perspective on the new Composite Client

Ward just did an excellent post sharing his thoughts on our new WPF Composite Client, Acropolis and CAB. If you don't know Ward and you are a CAB customer, you should. Ward is the VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade , one of our partners and the makers
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:25 AM

Trying to Grok CAB?

Just came across this set of posts by Rick Newman which introduces you to the essentials of CAB. I love to see it when the community takes this kind of initiative. First Jeremy's fantastic set of posts , then David's book and now this. This has certainly
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Friday, October 26, 2007 11:09 AM

WPF Composite Client, it's coming!

Today is a great day as we unveil our plans for a new  patterns & practices deliverable currently called " WPF Composite Client". The Acropolis team  just announced that  the core Acropolis concepts  will be rolled into
Posted by Glenn Block | 63 Comments
Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:33 PM

CAB/SCSF Training - Yes, it's available

One thing I am constantly asked by customers with organizations both small and large is " Is there any training available for CAB ?". Thanks to David Platt, there is. 1. Read David Platt's new book "Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:30 AM

Composite Applications, Why do we need them?

Several weeks ago Brandon Satrom and Mike Walker created two great posts giving the justification for why Composite Applications are needed. Brandon elucidates 5 factors, I'll over simplify this down to two and then let you read their posts (which I highly
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:20 AM

SCSF in Orcas Beta 2

One of the questions people keep asking is " When will SCSF work on Orcas? ". This wouldn't be as much of an issue if GAT/GAX 1.2 worked on Orcas. Unfortunately that's not the case and although we have GAT/GAX 1.3 which does work on Orcas, our existing
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:23 AM

S+S and SCSF Better together

The past month or so our good friend (and my predecessor) Eugenio has been busy developing a Litware HR Smart Client application (LitwareSC) using the SCSF (see screenshot below). In addition to WPF support, one of the other challenges Eugenio and team
Posted by Glenn Block | 3 Comments
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:33 AM

SCSFContrib 1.0 release

A while ago, I told you about the new SCSFContrib project . Well since then the SCSFContrib team has been hard at work cracking out the first release. All the extracurricular hours have really paid off and the first version has shipped. If you are building
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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:02 AM

Building a Composite Application Framework

In the wake of the "great debate" over the complexity of CAB, Jeremy Miller has done a series of posts on how to build a Composite Application Framework. Jeremy does a good job of removing some of the mystery behind building composite applications. Even
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