PUBLIC MARKS from tadanderson with tag smartclient

This book is a must have for anyone that wants to know what Microsoft technologies have to offer to accomplish Service Oriented Architecture.

David Hill has put together a nice Prism Quick Start Kit. These samples should get anyone up and running with ease.

The Smart Client Software Factory ( SCSF ) for Visual Studio 2008 is now available on the Microsoft downloads site.

I know I am in the minority here, but I am not at all excited to see the way things are shaping up. ActiveX is making a come back, and I am dreading it.

What I have seen come out of patterns and practices are not software factories as prescribed by the initial movement.

Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is made with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and is installable via ClickOnce.

Programming the Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory Book Review.

There sure is a lot of disappointment in Acropolis being put out there for something that isn't planned to released for another 9-12 months. I agree that the releases are no where near complete, but come on, it's a product for a product that is not even close to being finished yet (Acropolis will NOT ship with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5)!!!!!

My newly ordered SCSF and CAB book is outdated before it is printed...

Microsoft recently put up a new web site called Windows Client .net ...

Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory Book on the Way. I am hoping that this book provides a good path through the documentation and that it settles some of the contradictions found in it.

The interaction between the PnP team and the community has been excellent. If you haven't been voting on the changes you would like to see happen, you should start. Each of the CodePlex sites offer a voting section for the feature we the community would like to see.

The ClickOnce Deployment Resource Kit includes a paper is written by Brian Noyes, and 2 code projects, the ClickOnce Deployment Repository and the Manifest Manager Utility.

There is now a CodePlex site dedicated to the Smart Client Software Factory using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Acropolis is the code name for a framework that supports the rapid development, deployment, and management of composite client applications.