April 2007 - Posts

• Activating WorkItems in a TabWorkspace

  Apologies for those to whom the Smart Client Software Factory means nothing, but I thought I'd share a recent experience with regard to the TabWorkspace workspace control. I do plan to come back and explain SCSF at a more fundamental level in later posts, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:06 AM by sthorne | 0 Comments

• Using Object Builder as a singleton factory

  One of the most basic uses of Object Builder is when we want to specify that certain objects should always be created as singletons. For example, we may require that only one instance of a DataAccess object should ever exist. This can be specified by Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:00 AM by sthorne | 1 Comments

• Changing the default using directives in Visual Studio

  The other day I was working on a demonstrator application for the Object Builder framework, and adding a lot of new classes to my project. Having to manually add using directives for OB in every class didn't seem terribly efficient, so I set about finding Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:44 AM by sthorne | 2 Comments

• Pretty Patterns

  The Patterns and Practices team here provide a host of industry tested guidance on software development for the Microsoft platform, as well as software factories, application blocks and reference implementaions. The current project I'm involved with is Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:44 AM by sthorne | 0 Comments

• New job, new blog

  Welcome to my shiny new blog! I've recently moved to MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) UK from DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism), so having talked about how great all these products are I now have to drink my own medicine and use them to solve Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:11 AM by sthorne | 1 Comments