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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:57 PM

Announcing the patterns and practices Patterns Factory

For some time now I've been working on a project that I've not been able to talk about. Well today, I am finally able to let the cat out of the bag. One of the challenges we've been hearing about from customers is around patterns. We hear they are way
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:49 AM

Seattle CodeCamp talks

I forgot to post on this, well better late than never. This weekend I'm speaking at the Seattle CodeCamp on WCSF and SCSF. Actually Day one is over, which leaves one more talk left tomorrow on using SCSF and the Disconnected Service Agent. Session state
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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
Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:07 AM

Thinking about a name for Composite WPF

We're in the early stages of the new Composite WPF. We've received a bunch of feedback from customers that the name needs work and doesn't roll off the tongue.  This applies to the short form CWPF or the longer Composite Windows Presentation Foundation.
Posted by Glenn Block | 26 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
Posted by Glenn Block | 14 Comments
Friday, December 07, 2007 7:59 AM

If Acropolis is no more, what's our commitment?

Recently there was a question on the forums from Bill Krat asking about p&p's commitment around the future of SCSF/CAB. I can completely understand where Bill is coming from and I am sure many customers are wondering the same thing. For this reason
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:38 AM

DevTeach Vancouver sessions (NOT)

DevTeach is going on this week in Vancouver and kicking off tomorrow. Around this time tomorrow (12:30am) people will probably winding down from Jeffery's Party with Palermo . I'm happy to have been invited to attend DevTeach and deliver three talks in
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Monday, October 29, 2007 8:16 PM

Announcing WPF Composite Client

We just announced a new deliverable called WPF Composite Client. Due to the wonders of the blogosphere this is actually showing up as having been posted several days ago. Note to self, don't post drafts anymore. Anyway, check out the "real" post here
Posted by Glenn Block | 0 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
Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:44 AM

Tech Ed 2007, I'll be there

This year I'll be attending in Barcelona presenting on the work we've been doing in Web Client vNext. I'll also be doing a chalk talk session on factory usage in the real world along with David Platt and Mario Szpusta. WEB318 Web Client Software Factory
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 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 12:06 PM

WCSF and SCSF Knowledgebase

Within the client program, we create a lot of guidance in the form of blog posts, codeplex pages, etc that are around our deliverables. Often these posts have a BANG when they go out but are then lost into the abyss of other posts. These posts have huge
Posted by Glenn Block | 0 Comments
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
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:34 AM

Updates to WCSF and SCSF

Blaine has recently posted about fixes/updates to WCSF and SCSF. WCSF 1.1 RC - contains several fixes to WCSF as well as built in support for Entlib 3.1. We're getting close to shipping the final bits, but if you want to get your hands on it now you can.
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