This article is part of a series; · WCSF Application Architecture 1: Introduction · WCSF Application Architecture 2: Application Controller Model View Presenter The MVP pattern is effectively an evolution of Model View Controller, and is mainly geared at improving the structure and testability of User Interface code. There is a good article here that discusses UI patterns, and a previous post of mine that contrasts the MVP pattern with a pre-release version of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. The Web Client

This article is part of a series; · WCSF Application Architecture 1: Introduction So why do we have patterns? I think it is basically to reuse good designs, and to adopt a common terminology when discussing software. But so often the subtleties of patterns are difficult to get right, and this causes confusion when people say “my presenters do X, what do your presenters do?” I am a little concerned that I’m just going to add to this confusion with these articles. If that’s the case, I never wrote

One of the questions I get a lot from customers is “how do I write a real world application using the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF)?” The problem is that I think everyone writes applications slightly differently, but also significantly there is no single correct way . What is important is to get two things right; Select an approach I honestly believe that one of the best ways to improve the quality, maintainability, and document-ability (no really, I’m sure that’s a word!!) of your system is

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 too hard to grok, and to implement. What customers want is for us to help them with guidance on how to implement those patterns in the real world. In the past we've done this through several means starting with guidance, and moving toward code. Time

Well, right up until this morning I was planning on blogging about the similarities and differences between the patterns used by the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) and the up and coming ASP.NET MVC Framework ... and then I saw Glenn’s post linking to this great article on patterns used to structure User Interface code . Gutted. Someone has already done it, and what’s worse, they’ve done it much better and more thoroughly than what I had in mind! Still, I think I can squeeze some mileage out of

Some top news has been circulating over the past few days or so - Glenn Block has a good summary . Basically there are plans for p&p to produce guidance on building Composite Applications with WPF - new guidance built from the ground up, learning lessons from all the projects and deliverables in this space over the past few years. I'll be keeping my eye on this one - it sounds very interesting! Even better, to quote Glenn; "Our target is to have all of the new guidance ship before the end of

Here is another bundle that will help create a more robust user experience UX for your web apps. It allows you to in invoke server-side validation through the use of AJAX. It simplifies the coding of such validations while providing guidelines on how to perform security validation in order to protect your sites from SQL Injection, Cross-Site scripting, etc. If you are interest, take a look here: http://www.codeplex.com/websf/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Validation_landing_page