After publishing an alpha version, a beta version and a RC 1 version I’m glad to announce that the final version of Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 has been published on MSDN. What is new in this release? The April 2008 release of Smart Client Software Factory includes support for Visual Studio... read more
Some time ago, I wrote a post about How to update the installer to run Smart Client Software Factory in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Now I’m proud to announce that we shipped an Alpha version of Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008. As Blaine announced before, in order to run this new... read more
We have just published a new SCSF sample application on the Smart Client Contrib project. We have published also a demo script that provides step-by-step instructions to create a SCSF application. The goal of this demo script is to help presenters give a presentation that illustrates the main aspects of SCSF such as WorkItems, Commands,... read more
In my previous sample I showed how to create a Hello World sample using Microsoft Acropolis. Here we will modify that sample to use a service to retrieve the Hello World message. Download and open the previous sample. (AcropolisHelloWorld.zip). Add an interface called IMessageService. Add a class to implement the preceding interface. This class also... read more
In this post I will show you how to create a simple Hello World Sample using Acropolis. Acropolis is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications, For more info, see Johnny’s post. In order to do this sample, you will... read more
As you may know the version 2.0 of SCSF was shipped this weekend, so one of the main questions is how to get the existing SCSF June 2006 solutions running with this new version. In order to do this, you have to follow this steps: Uninstall SCSF June 2006, because basically SCSF May 2007 is... read more
In this post I will try to sketch an explanation about different ways of registering and retrieving services in SCSF / CAB. How To: Registering Services We have two ways of implementing the service registration. Using the [Service] attribute This attribute indicates that a class should be automatically registered as a service into the application's root WorkItem... read more