Monthly Archives: April 2006
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I’m inaugurating this new section about this exciting concept “Software as a Serviceâ€. Diego Dagum, DPE Architect for Microsoft Chile, interviewed Gianpaolo Carraro, who manages the Architecture Strategy group at Microsoft. Gianpaolo is passionate about SaaS and together with Fred Chong they plan to deliver guidance about different aspects of SaaS architectures. It’s in Spanish,... read more
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Chris Holmes, an active member of the CAB messageboards, blogged about how to create an outlook bar and the corresponding CAB classes. Here you have a snapshot: You can register the Outlook Bar… OutlookBar outlookBar = RootWorkItem.Items.AddNew<OutlookBar>(); RootWorkItem.UIExtensionSites.RegisterSite("OutlookBar", outlookBar); Then you can add/remove buttons to the bar… Button button = new Button(); button.Text = "Payroll";... read more
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Don Smith started a series of blogcasts where he is showing some of the Service Factory functionality. As usual this is very good stuff and very developer-friendly.
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One of the benefits of CAB is the abstraction it provides regarding the undetlying toolkit. I’ve blogged about the Command, UIElements and Workspace subsystem before. The Infragistics guys implemented this layer for their toolkit. DevExpress is another toolkit but they haven’t invested in providing the CAB layer yet. Some people in the CAB messageboards asked... read more
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On Augus 22nd. 2005 I left a comment in Kenny’s Wolf blog: [on writing custom channels] “…I think there should be more documentation and examples regarding the different interfaces provided (IOutputChannel, IRequestChannel, IReplyChannel, etc). I didn’t know which one I would need in my bindingelement.” 9 months later… Resources for Custom Channel Authors: ... read more
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The first public drop of Service Factory is available on the workspace. Download it and give feedback on the message boards! If you want to keep updated with this project, here you have a list of Service Factory bloggers: Don Smith Jason Hogg Tom Hollander Pablo Galiano Pablo Cibraro Christian Weyer Edward Bakker Beat Schwegler... read more
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Last week Roberto Schatz, DPE Architect, and Ramiro Iturregui, ISV Developer, organized an Architects meeting at Microsoft, Argentina. Eugenio Pace, Product Manager for patterns & practices, and me, talked about many exciting things including: The current status of the patterns & practices group. Patterns & practices won’t be an isolated group anymore; they will be... read more
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I’ve been concerned about the relationship between ClickOnce and WCF. Lot of buzz has been generated regarding partial-trust scenario not being supported for WCF v1. I see this as something desirable, but it is not the end of the world I’ve written a Smart Client application that leverage WCF. I wanted to deploy it so... read more
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Published by Matias Woloski on April 6th, 2006 12:29 am under Architecture, CAB, CoolStuff, GAT, General, Indigo, MBI, Shadowfax, WSE, Xml
Don Smith announced today that Service BAT Service Factory is finally a public project. I’ve been part of this project since the beginning of the year and I can tell you that I’m pretty excited about it. Jason Hogg said that this were going to change the way we develop SO applications. This is a... read more
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Lately, I’ve been wondering about the strength of ClickOnce applied in enterprise applications. In these scenarios, the deployment of a Smart Client application involves more than a simple XCOPY. Let’s enumerate some of them: multiple environments (dev, qa, staging, production) prerequisites CAS permissions run as non-admin pre and post-deployment tasks partial deploys (only a set... read more
