As you may already now, the Composite Application Guidance for WPF was released a few days ago. In this project I had the pleasure of working with the patterns & practices team, mainly as a technical writer. (I wrote a few lines of code too, but nothing compared to the huge job done by devs!)... read more
In case you missed it, Mariano Converti has been blogging about the Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory in spanish. It's good to hear that because there are very few people blogging in spanish about CAB and a lot of hispanic CAB users, so this is very valuable to the community. Here is... read more
We released a draft version of the hands on labs for Smart Client Software Factory almost a month ago, and we got over 1000 downloads. We will release the final version soon which will include, apart from the current labs, the following ones: Adding offline capabilities to your solution through the Disconnected Service Agent Application... read more
I'm happy to announce that we have published a draft version of the Hands On Labs for Smart Client Software Factory May 2007! Download The goal of these Hands on Labs is to provide developers with a step-by-step guidance to help them understand the core components of the factory and learn how to take advantage of them to... read more
After we shipped the May 2007 release of the Smart Client Software Factory, I moved to the Web Client Software Factory team to work in the next version (in case you missed it, the second weekly drop is already available). Since then, I've been working on the Hands On Labs for both factories. I cannot... read more
Yes! We finally shipped it! It took us a little more time than what we expected but I’m very excited about the new features and capabilities we are providing to the community. This release provides (from Blaine’s announcement post): Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability CAB extensions and View with presenter recipe (don’t miss this post from... read more
If you want to know the internals of the guidance package that will be shipped in SC-SF v2, don’t miss this post from Juan Arguello: Smart Client Guidance development
I’m proud to announce that I’ll be part of the team that is in charge of delivering the v2 of the Smart Client Software Factory, which will include new functionality, a lot of updates and a number of usability fixes. I’ve worked with most of the guys in the team in the first version of the... read more
The team that was next to our workspace when I was in Redmond, has published the December 2006 release. For those who don’t know what it is: The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly... read more
I had the pleasure of assisting to the Strategic Architect Forum (aka SAF) that took place in Microsoft Campus at Redmond last week. Here are some pictures: From left to right: Matias Woloski (Southworks), Bill Gates, Eric Rudder (Senior VP of Microsoft Technical Strategy, in the back) and me. Eric Rudder and Bill Gates on... read more
