I spent a week in Redmond in January taking part in a focus group on the vision for the P&P's new Prism work on composite applications. Part of the week long exercise was to identify the basic building blocks of building large composite clients...
EDIT: Oops on my part. This is effectively the Active Object pattern. The rest of the Build your own CAB series can be found at the table of contents . There's a thread on the altdotnet list this morning about how to unit test background operations...
Rob Kitson has put together a set of code examples that demonstrate the screen patterns mentioned in the BYOC series . Read more about it at Keeping UI construction DRY . Thanks Rob!
Yesterday I was part of a lot of conversations about building composite desktop applications. The people in attendance are building a myriad array of large desktop clients and they're facing some substantial challenges. Offhand, I remember hearing...
The other umpteen parts of the series are here in the Table of Contents . A large part of building a composite application is "wiring" the pieces together. You're wiring views to presenters, commands to menus, and security rules to elements...
There's been a bit of chatter today on the altdotnet list about whether to use the CAB, another framework, or roll your own . It seemed like a good time to get off my duff and start writing some new installments in the Build your own CAB series. When...
There's yet another (worthy) discussion going on in the altdotnet list about whether or not to choose CAB, another framework, or roll your own framework for a given desktop client (I'm saying desktop client here because I'm thinking of the...
After a bit of a hiatus and a fair amount of pestering, I'm back and ready to continue the "Build you own CAB" series . The point isn't really to go build a drop in replacement for the Composite Application Block (CAB), but rather to...
The entire content is now online as a page on my site at: Build your own CAB #14: Managing Menu State with MicroController's, Command's, a Layer SuperType, some StructureMap Pixie Dust, and a Dollop of Fluent Interface Community Server really...
Yes, this is overdue. Here is an introduction and table of contents to my "Build Your Own CAB" series of blog posts on designing WinForms applications. You'll see nothing here about user experience and not much WinForms technology. That...
THIS ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY IS HERE. The title is a mouthful and accurately implies an alarmingly high jargon to code ration, but I just didn't see anyway to write this post without straying into all of these different subjects. When you try to write...
Start with http://andersnoras.com/blogs/anoras/archive/2007/07/04/i-m-coming-down-with-a-serious-case-of-the-dsls.aspx and come back. Just to continue the world's longest run on sentence. Before I start, here's the table of contents for the "Build...
Wow, an even dozen, and I've still got a ways to go. Just to prove that I can write a short post, this one is brief (because it was meant to be a little section in the Event Aggregator post). A couple people have asked for a PDF of the series when...
I will finish "Build your own CAB" at least before Acropolis hits and makes it all obsolete. In the meantime, check out all the stuff that's gone before: Preamble The Humble Dialog Box Supervising Controller Passive View Presentation Model...
I've long, long since left the rails of "Build your own CAB" topics and wandered off into "just things you do" when you're building a WinForms application. I'm doing this topic now because it felt easy to do in the midst...
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