As just two weeks ago the Smart Client source code has been published in beta version (read more in my previous post), now it was turn for the release of the Web Client Software Factory source code (beta) for Visual Studio 2010 RC. This was published on Codeplex by the p&p team (read more... read more
If you host a WCSF application on IIS 7 (integrated mode), you will notice that the application throws an exception on its first request (System.Web.HttpException: Request is not available in this context). This is because when the Application_Start method of the WebClientApplication class calls the GetConfiguration method of the WebConfigModuleInfoStore class, it requires access to... read more
If you use Prism in your WPF applications, you will notice that the Shell window is usually the application’s main window. If you want to check it just execute in debug time Application.Current.MainWindow from the immediate window. In the Codeplex forum we received an interesting question that said that an application was being shutdown after... read more
One of things that we may need in a CWAB application is changing the ASP.Net page theme programmatically based on some logic. If we want to achieve this, probably we will quickly be aware which it presents some design challenges for us: What is the best place to put your logic? How should we... read more
As you may know Composite Web Application Block (a.k.a. CWAB) is part of a compendium of application blocks which are included into Web Client Software Factory (a.k.a. WCSF). CWAB helps architects and developers create web applications obtaining the following benefits: Separation of Concerns Modularity Extensibility Testability Maintainability When I started researching WCSF, one of the... read more
