Book description
Get hands-on guidance for developing smart client applications using Windows Forms with the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and the Smart Client Software Factory. Smart clients, the evolved intersection of thin clients and rich clients, have been hampered by the complexities involved in using traditional Web development methods. With just your fundamental Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# skills, this guide will help you understand the prefabricated classes of CAB and the proven patterns that the Smart Client Software Factory provides. This book offers classroom-tested guidance, hands-on instruction, and a proven building-block approach. Through seven modular lessons, developers of moderate experience with learn how to create functional, robust smart client applications.
Table of contents
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Programming Microsoft® Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory
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- Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Shell and Services
- 3. WorkItems and Controllers
- 4. Workspaces and SmartParts
- 5. Shared User Interface Extension
- 6. Event System
- 7. Action Catalog Service
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8. CAB and WPF
- A. Problem Background
- B. Official Solution Architecture: Interoperation
- C. Solution Architecture: Porting the CAB Libraries
- D. Further Solution Architecture: Porting the SCSF
- E. CAB Example Based on Boogaart's WPF CAB DLLs and My WPF SCSF
- F. More Complex Example: Browser-Hosted XBAP Application
- Chapter 8 Lab Exercises CAB and WPF
- A. Generics
- Index
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Product information
- Title: Programming Microsoft® Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2007
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735624146
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