PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT COMPOSITE UI APPLICATION BLOCK AND SMART CLIENT SOFTWARE FACTORY - Tapa blanda

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Get practical, hands-on instruction for learning the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and the Smart Client Software Factory. Using just your fundamental Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual C# skills, you’ll work through seven lessons that present real-world scenarios. Each lesson is based on proven classroom guidance—building the skills your need to easily create user interface components for smart-client solutions.

Discover how to:

• Generate a shell application and implement prefabricated or custom CAB services
• Use work items and controllers to share resources in loosely coupled applications
• Optimize visual information display by using Workspaces and SmartParts
• Add and modify menus, toolbars, and status bars by using the CAB user interface extension
• Announce and receive asynchronous events within an application
• Invoke methods in the Action Catalog service to coordinate application business-logic
• Match CAB constructs to Windows Presentation Foundation

Biografía del autor

David S. Platt runs Rolling Thunder Computing (http://www.rollthunder.com), an education and consulting practice. He is the author of six previous books, including Understanding COM+, published by Microsoft Press, and is a frequent contributor to MSDN®, the Microsoft Developer Network. David lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts, with his wife, Linda, and his daughters.