Programming Microsoft® Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory

Table of contents

1. Programming Microsoft® Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory
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   2. Introduction
      1. Who This Book Is For
      2. System Requirements
      3. Sample Code
      4. Acknowledgments
      5. Support for This Book
      6. Questions and Comments
   3. 1. Introduction
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture: Loose Coupling with CAB
      3. C. Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF)
      4. D. Simplest Application Walkthrough, Classic CAB
      5. E. Tracing and Visualization
      6. Chapter 1 Lab Exercise Introduction
   4. 2. The Shell and Services
      1. A. Concepts and Definitions
      2. B. Generating a CAB Project with SCSF
      3. C. The Shell Application and Initialization Process
      4. D. CAB Services
      5. Chapter 2 Lab Exercises The Shell and Services
   5. 3. WorkItems and Controllers
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture
      3. C. WorkItem Details
      4. D. Controllers
      5. Chapter 3 Lab Exercises WorkItems and Controllers
   6. 4. Workspaces and SmartParts
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture
      3. C. Workspaces
      4. D. SmartParts (Views)
      5. E. Modifying the Display of Views using the SmartPartInfo Structure
      6. Chapter 4 Lab Exercises Workspaces and Smart Parts
   7. 5. Shared User Interface Extension
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture
      3. C. Shell Processing
      4. D. Menu Processing
      5. E. StatusStrips
      6. F. ToolStrips
      7. G. Non-ToolStripItem Classes: Writing a UIElementAdapter
      8. H. User Interface Modification Order
      9. Chapter 5 Lab Exercise User Interface Extension
   8. 6. Event System
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture
      3. C. Simplest example
      4. D. More Complex Examples: Connecting .NET Events to CAB Events, and Programmatic Subscriptions
      5. Chapter 6 Lab Exercises Event System
   9. 7. Action Catalog Service
      1. A. Problem Background
      2. B. Solution Architecture: The Action Catalog Service
      3. C. Simplest Example: My Own Time Service
      4. D. More Complex Example: Passing and Modifying Parameters
      5. Chapter 7 Lab Exercise Action Catalog Service
   10. 8. CAB and WPF
       1. A. Problem Background
       2. B. Official Solution Architecture: Interoperation
       3. C. Solution Architecture: Porting the CAB Libraries
       4. D. Further Solution Architecture: Porting the SCSF
       5. E. CAB Example Based on Boogaart's WPF CAB DLLs and My WPF SCSF
       6. F. More Complex Example: Browser-Hosted XBAP Application
       7. Chapter 8 Lab Exercises CAB and WPF
   11. A. Generics
       1. A. Problem Background
       2. B. Solution Architecture
       3. C. Simplest Example
       4. D. More Complex Examples: Writing Our Own Generic Classes
       5. E. An Interesting Use of Generics in the .NET Framework
       6. Appendix A Lab Exercises Generics
   12. Index
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