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January 2007 - Posts

A Channel9 video about patterns & practices

Just over a week ago, Ed (one of our Architects) did not show up for a chat I had scheduled to review some architectural changes and additions that we needed to make to the Smart Client (the next project I am going to work on). So, I went over to Ed's
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How are unit tests different from acceptance tests?

There was a question on one of the internal aliases today about the difference between unit tests and acceptance tests. I responded with my take on it. After some consideration, I decided to share this with the world as well. Of course, I have edited

Code Snippets for PageFlow now available.

I finally uploaded to our CodePlex site some work that the team has done on the Web Client Software Factory to make life easier for folks using the PageFlow block. There are now two code snippets to help speed-up development. Check it out...

How To: Add a Service attribute to the Web Client Software Factory

I've been offline for a few days. I get back, and Mariano has been at it again, writing more How To articles. This one was posted on his blog and on the WCSF CodePlex Forums . Enjoy

Other recent patterns & practices releases

The rest of the p&p team has been just as busy as my team, creating guidance, helpful tools, and software factories. Two of the recent releases are: The Web Service Software Factory–December 2006 (ASP.NET and WCF services in C#) The second CTP of

Creating the Reference Implementation using WCSF and WSSF

We just posted one of the most requested features for the Web Client Software Factory : instructions on how to integrate it with the Web Service Software Factory . The instructions are on our community site on CodePlex . Enjoy.

Neat Vista Feature - Multiple Monitor Support in MSTSC

Monday, I paved my laptop, removing one of the Vista Release Candidates, and installing the Vista RTM bits. After getting a bunch of applications installed, I tried to use Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to connect to my desktop machine (also running
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A few pictures of the Web Client Software Factory team

Eugenio posted a few pictures from the ShipIt party we threw on Friday as part of his "We Shipped" announcement. FYI, I'm the guy in the second picture opening the champagne bottle. [Edit: By the way, these pics do not show the entire team. There are

How to: add a base class for Web pages

Mariano is at it again. He posted another article about the Web Client Software Factory : How to: add a base class for Web pages Enjoy.

How to: inject StateValue<T> objects using constructor injection

The other day, Mariano , one of the folks who worked with me on the Web Client Software Factory , posted a How-To about changing and extending StateValue<T> (one of the classes in the Composite Web Application Block). I should have pointed it out,

We Shipped the Web Client Software Factory!!!!

The Web Client Software Factory January 2007 release is now available . About fifteen minutes ago, Eugenio and I posted the release. Now, I need to return to our release celebration and relax a bit. Enjoy.

Release Candidate for the Web Client Software Factory Available

We have posted a Release Candidate for the Web Client Software Factory . We hope you folks will download, install, and try out the factory. Even more importantly, we hope you will post feedback or bugs to our Forums on CodePlex . And if you installed

Wrapping up the Web Client Software Factory

The entire team and I have been heads down and working very hard to get the first release of the Web Client Software Factory done. While we still have some work to do, we are getting close to a release. This week's drop on CodePlex is an MSI, rather than
 
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