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

by David S. Platt
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 31m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 5 Lab Exercise User Interface Extension

  1. Generate a new SCSF project. In your Controller class, add a menu popup and a few items, a toolbar button, and a status bar pane.

  2. Figure out a way to add the Help menu item in its customary location at the rightmost end of the menu bar. Make it work properly if other popups are removed and added.

  3. In your code that adds toolbar buttons, add controls that are not buttons to the toolbar, for example, a text box or a dropdown list.

  4. Write a CAB service that fetches the list of items to add to the shared user interface from a web service. Store them in a config file and have the web service read them from that config file. See the ProfileCatalog web service in the Bank Teller reference application for ideas. ...

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