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MSDN Architecture Webcast: Extending Microsoft patterns & practices ObjectBuilder
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Today I presented a webcast on p&p ObjectBuilder (OB), the underpinning framework powering CAB and EntLib v2.0.
I'm afraid I tried to cover too much ground and the result was a pretty fast and maybe hard to follow session. I think it would have been much better to do an OB introduction webcast alone, and then another one on how to extend it. My apologies for that. I'll appreciate your feedback.
I showed some examples of how to use OB programmatically, as well as how to extend it. You can download the source, which is fairly big as it contains Pico.NET and Spring.NET in addition to OB itself. Also, you will see a side-by-side example of Fowler's MovieFinder example running in all three frameworks, so you can appreciate the differences.
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p&p for smart devices: the Mobile Client Software Factory
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Note: this entry has moved.
As annouced a while back, patterns & practices is coming with guidance and tooling on how to best author applications for mobile devices (Pocket PCs), initially targetting the Windows Mobile 5.0.
I’m very excited to be part of this project, as it represents a new challenge in terms of a new platform, but where most of the same sound architectural principles that we been applying over the past years working with p&p still apply.
What’s more, as you already know from the latest p&p deliverables, we’ll continue to be very agile and responsive to community feedback. For that very reason, we have already started releasing weekly drops for you to take a look at! Go ahead and subscribe to the workspace, and don’t hessitate to send your comments through the message board. The entire team is listening.
In my next couple posts I’ll talk about a cool feature for the factory that we’ve been working on for the past couple weeks: the Dynamic Resolution Control. In short: author your single application, give your custom controls multiple alternative layouts for the various resolutions (i.e. QVGA horizontal, VGA vertical, VGA Square vertical, etc.), and have the control dynamically re-apply the layout when the user rotates the screen! Stay tunned. The user experience in VS is pretty cool, I think :)