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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:24 AM
Where is WCSF headed?
Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF. There are a lot of people interested in a public statement from patterns & practices about the roadmap for WCSF and future support of WCSF, in addition to
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Monday, October 13, 2008 10:03 AM
Finally, a common Service Locator
I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares , Glenn Block , and a few others around here have been working with a number of folks from the wider .NET community to create a common wrapper for IoC containers. Chris & Glenn created a community
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:26 AM
Composite Application Guidance for WPF Shipped!
A while back, I was Dev Lead on the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) when we added the ability to host WPF controls in a Composite Application Block (CAB) application. Since then, the thinking in the WPF space has changed a bit, and p&p decided
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:32 PM
Proof of Concept: a simple DI solution for ASP.NET WebForms
Chris Tavares and I were chatting yesterday morning about an idea Chris had: building a simple, reusable Http Module that gives folks DI scoped to the Application, Session, and Request. Yesterday afternoon, during the p&p Dev team's weekly "Code Kata"
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:44 PM
Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Actually Adding Unity
This is the fifth post in a series. The other post include: Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application
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Friday, April 25, 2008 5:25 PM
Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 Release is available on MSDN
The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx . This is a port of the last release (May 2007, if I recall correctly) to VS2008. No new features were added. A few
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Monday, April 21, 2008 2:09 PM
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release Candidate Available
Friday, I posted we had a solid Beta. Today, I am letting you know that SCSF now has a Release Candidate (RC) . The bug that appeared Friday is, we think, fixed. We actually published the RC before we completed any internal testing, so the customer who
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Friday, April 18, 2008 3:34 PM
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Beta Available
The SCSF April 2008 Beta Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available. We fixed all the known issues from the Alpha. It is solid , and may actually be a release candidate, rather than a beta. Enjoy.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:16 PM
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Available
For the past month or so, Blaine and I have been overseeing the development of the April release of the Smart Client Software Factory. This release is being done mostly by a team of vendors, freeing Blaine to run Prism and I to run the Acceptance Testing
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:06 PM
Unity Shipped
I am a little late to the party, but Unity shipped last week. Here are a few other posts about it: Grigori: Unity DI container 1.0 shipped! Chris: Unity 1.0 is released! I have used Unity in an internal project here at p&p, as well as a proof of concept
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:30 PM
Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics
I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on) looking back at the build logs from the past 6 months (or so) trying to figure out what metrics we have, what we should track going forward, and what goals
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:17 PM
Weird COM Exceptions in SCSF/CAB Unit Tests
The SCSF project was getting a weird error with the unit tests that were brought forward from VS2005 to VS2008. All the unit tests would pass, however the test run would fail with the following error in a special log file: One of the background threads
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:42 PM
The .NET Framework is a bit on the big side.
As anyone who has ever tried to find docs on MSDN already knows, the .NET Framework is big. Real big. I can see the feedback already: Thanks, Mike for stating the bloody obvious.... Seriously, though, how big is this library that we have been building
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:25 AM
Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships!
I know that folks have been reading about the Web Client Software Factory on Blaine's blog and on Glenn's blog. Blaine posted about what we planned to include, back in December with Next version of Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) . Glenn had the post
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:16 AM
Developing a ASP .NET Control with client capabilities
Brian J. Cardiff ( from Clarius Consulting) is one of the developers on the Web Client team. He has asked me to post an article for him, since he does not have a blog (yet). Here it is (with some re-formatting): Developing a ASP .NET Control with
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