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Composite Application Guidance e.g. Prism project was released to the wild today !!! So if you are building WPF apps and looking for a module loader, event broker and other goodies to build WPF Composite solutions hurry and download this cool framework from PAG. So what you can find in this new framework ? Stock Trader Reference Implementation Composite Application Library for WPF 4 Quickstarts Hands on labs – How to build a Hello world app Documentation Documentation and hmm.. Documentation…. -...
Prism - WPF Composite Client codeplex web was born today :-) "Prism" is a set of assets for developing Composite WPF applications, yes you can use Composite UI (CAB) to build composite application today, you can also use CAB to build wpf based applications but with Prism you'll be able to get all the benefits of Pure WPF apps with the lessons learned from the Composite UI (CAB) in order to build a true WPF Composite Solution. What can you expect to see at the Prism web ? You will see...
You’ve probably already heard about Service Oriented Architecture but have you ever figured out how to build a service oriented UI? How do you mix a bunch of well known design patterns together and rapidly build a font end for your great SOA design? Furthermore, How would you build a font end today while maintaining a migration path for tomorrow? Microsoft Acropolis, Composite UI & Smart Client Software Factory are some of the technologies which are used to leverage the known benefits of SOA...
During the Microsoft Developer's academy event which was held in the Cinema City some time ago Ron Jacobs recorded several arcast with the event's presenters, one of the arcast was the Composite UI in the Real World arcast with Me, Guy Ronen from Simigon & Eli from Intel. You can listen to the arcast over here video arcast is also available over here
Last week i've presented my SCSFWPF at the Microsoft C# Usergroup, during the show we build on the fly WPF smart client solution using several of the cab abilities. I've promised to publish the code that was created live during the event so here it is: download
Anyone who've been developing Smart Clients (or any other Winforms based applications) using Composite UI Application block and Smart Client Software Factory was wondering how to get the great frameworks functionality for building WPF based application, WPF enable us to build rich application but building the application the right way... still missing there. Part of my day to day work at Experts4D (my own company) i'm Mentoring and Consulting, during my last 5 days WPF & CAB Internals training...
When you are working with Smart Client Software Factory SCSF or any other Microsoft Software Factories which are based on the Global Automation Toolkit it might happened that sometime during the development you'll have a Visual Studio crash which afterwards you will find that you no longer able to see the Right Click pop-up menu of the software factory. In order to enable back the Software Factory in your specific solution use the Guidance Package Manger which is located under the Visual Studio Tools...
Microsoft's Developer Academy was held last wendsday in Israel at the Cinema City, during the event we had lots and lots of sessions from .net 3.0 to team system to composite ui and more. Large part of the lecturers at the event were Microsoft MVPs. Myself, Jackie Goldstein, Udi Dahan, Leon Langlayben, Justin Angel, Roy Osherove, Alon Phlis & Ami Levin. My part in the event was 2 sessions about the Microsoft Composite UI application block, Developers panel & a Video Arcast with Ron Jacobs...
The first promo video for the Microsoft Developers Academy is on the Air ! The promo is the first in a series of promos that was filmed by Microsoft Israel for the event. The event will take place at the Cinema City on the 31.1.2007 ! The promo featuring Ami Levin, Avner Kashtan , Yakov Greeshpan and me as the Bad Guys that will do anything to get into the event :-) During the event i'll be presenting 2CAB||!2CAB session, during this session I will demonstrate how easy it is to integrate win32 app...
In my last post I've talked about how to expose an OutlookBar as UIExtensionSite, during this post I would like to cover what are the needed actions needed to be added in order to support also the ability of using the command invokers with our OutlookBar. The idea is the same... in order for the CAB infrastructure to recognize our OutlookBar we need to introduce to the infrastructure an EventCommandAdapter. The EventCommandAdapter is used to link an event name like "Click" event to the Button or...
Almost every client I've been working with on CAB projects wanted the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook where you have a navigation pane on the side of the shell host and a content which is changing on the right pane. So lets see how we can get this cool look and feel in out CAB application... Searching over the web you might find an Outlook Bar that you might want to use in your CAB application, In my search I found on CodeProject - Herre Kuijpers Outlook Bar and i'll be using it to demonstrate...
Last week I've delivered 3 days course about the Microsoft Composite UI Application block during the Microsoft's MVPs week which we organized in Israel. During this course I've covered several undocumented areas regarding the usage and building of CAB enabled applications. In the following weeks till I will post various insights that I've covered while working with clients on Composite UI based applications.