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Experiences of the Smart Client Software Factory

Has anyone had any experience in building a 'real world' application with the Smart Client Software Factory, from Microsofts Patterns and Practices group? I'm looking for advice on how difficult it was to master, whether it decreased your time to market and any other general pitfalls....

Is it possible to display a modal window in SCSF application at the center of the screen

In SCSF application I would like to display a view as a modal window at the center of the screen. Is it possible to do that? WindowSmartPartInfo doesn't have any option for setting screen postion. Thanks. ...

SCSF vs Acropolis

What's the different between SCSF and Acropolis ? ...

What is the best practice for domain model re-use in composite applications?

We have a composite application built using the Composite UI Application Block (CAB)/Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF). To date, each module in our composite app has used its own set of DTO's, and business logic has been duplicated throughout the module, both in the UI layer and the Service layer. I would like to pursue more Domain-...

Can I host an ASP.NET application in a CAB WinForms application?

I have a .NET 2.0 WinForms application that was developed using the Composite Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory. I'm considering the development of a module that would contain a browser control that would access the ASP.NET website using credentials established when the user logged into the WinForms client. My goal is...

Can the Presenter of Web Client Software Factory(WCSF) and Smart Client Software Factory(SCSF) shared and how?

Web Client Software Factory(WCSF) and Smart Client Software Factory(SCSF) both use MVP pattern. M-Model can be shared. V-View has to be different as both are on different platform(Desktop/Web). I want to know can the P-Presenter can be shared or can I be exactly same for both and how. ...

where can I get Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll?

I'm rebuilding a project that uses: Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll And I can't find it anywhere as a download: Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 - this creates the folder "SCSF-Apr2008" with a "lib" directory that has lots of "Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.*" DLLs but not the DisconnectedAgent ...

the best way to store tree like information in app.config

What would be the best way to store a tree like the one below in app.config and how would I deserialize this information from it? Tree |-node1- | |-name - value | |-name - value | | ...... |-node2- | |-name - value | |-name - value | | ...... |-node3- | |-name - value | |-name - value | ...

Smart client software factory view activation problem

Hi, Im using smart client software factory in our application i created one workspace dynamically,based on that i can create n numbers of views.the view is modal dialog and i have used some window workspace. but the problem is i have to implement save all fuctionalities in menu. but i dont know which view is activated/focused How t...

Formula to estimate time to build SCSF-CAB / WPF-Composite

In my company management is looking for screen-pumping-machine/production-line-factory for data centric (form entry) windows apps. And I am for the task to build the tool that should automate the estimations given the technical requirements. I am trying to build a formula to estimate time to build SCSF-CAB apps. Since the break-down ac...

Dialog box in SCSF

Is there any reference implementation of a SCSF/CAB where a lookup popup window is created from the Shell and data is send over between the main shell and the pop-up window. How to implement this scenario from the MVP point of view? Should they communicate with events? ...

SCSF: display view from another view against button click

hi. i am facing one problem in SCSF. I have two workspaces MdiWorkspace DeckWorkspace i have two views in a module Viewer (display in mdiworkspace) Property Viewer (in deckworkspace) in Viewer i have a button in toolbar whose purpose is to display PropertyViewer (another View). how can i display this PropertyViewer in deckwork...

Is MS SCSF-CAB framework outdated, is there a better framework now?

Seems no more discussion about MS SCSF-CAB, is this framework outdated? is there a better framework? ...

SCSF custom Dependency Injection

I'd like to enhance/mimic the dependency injection done by the object builder to include some custom properties the standard way is in mySmartPart.cs [CreateNew] MyPresenter ABC { .... } [ServiceDependency] myService XYZ { ... } in include [MyCustomReferenceAttribute] CustomerObject MyCustomer { .... } ...

Targeting .NET 2.0 solution with SCSF-CAB

My team is starting a new LOB WinForms app and I'm evaluating architectural solutions. We are able to develop with VS2008, but we have to target .NET 2.0. I'd like to use SCSF-CAB (April 2008), but the documentation says that .NET 3.5 is required to run (not just compile) apps built with this framework, and that is crux of my question: ...

Logging errors in SCSF

I'm quite new to SCSF. So, I'm developping a SCSF Winforms in C# (using May 2007 version in VSNet 2005 Fwk2.0, I can't use new version). I've implemented a Business module. What is the best practise to log errors? I've configured the Logging Application Block. But how to use that ? Thanks for answers ...

SCSF : Access service in shell.

hi. i have a scrvice created in infrastructure.Module project and i wants to use it in Shell project. it is giving me exception that. this service is not available in current context. how to solve this issue ...

How to Globalize SCSF application

hi. I have been assigned a task to globalized an existing SCSF application.. this project has a number of modules. some of them are loading dynamically. as far User controls and forms there is no problem with them while globalization.. each module adds its menu using ToolStripMenuItem pluginsMenuItem = new ToolStripMenuItem(Resources...

Manage Z-Orders of windows in different threads/message loops?

I've got a C# SCSF application using Telerik WinForms UI conrols that has some long running UI operations that lock up the main UI thread for a few seconds. I do as much background processing on background threads as I can, However some of the databinding and list loading operations cause up to a 5 second halt on the UI Thread. In orde...

SCSF: Append Messages into LogView. using Event publication

hi I created a new View (LogView) in Infrastructure.Module project. This view will be used as LogViewer like output window in VS. i want to write different status messags in this LogView from different modules. I also created a class LogWriter which is publishing an event to write message into LogView i am facing problem to access thi...