Matias Woloski’s Blog

Some time ago I blogged about CABPedia and the article I wrote “Where to start?“. In this article I try to recommend what’s the best way to start developing with CAB and SCSF. Part of this walkthrough recommend writing the mythical HelloWorld application.

CABPedia, which uses the Mediawiki engine, shows you how many people clicked on a given article. More than 200 people wanted to see the HelloWorld topic, so we created it:

HelloWorld CAB and SCSF

I encourage you to browse the CABPedia. There is a lot of content there.

The power of the community is amazing.

Some months ago I was reading a post from Chris Holmes who has a nice idea about creating an outlook bar extension site for CAB applications (the outlook left bar who has the Mail, Calendar, etc). I decided to dedicate some hours to it and came up with the Outlook Bar workspace.

In 5 months almost 1,000 people downloaded it! The other day I came across with a an article in CodeProject written by Arnab Choudhuri

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/smartclientoutlookbar.asp

It explains how to use the workspace from the scratch…

A recurring question on the CAB community is how to perform a voting mechanism to close an application. The FormClosing event allow us to decide wether or not we will let the shell form close. However this is not enough because you might want to decide to close or not based on the state of the views or workitems.

I came up with a simple solution to this using the EventBroker:

Download here