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TechEd Barcelona 2006: Designing Zero-Code Adaptive User Interfaces (UIs) for Windows Mobile
I will be presenting some of the work I did for the patterns & practices Mobile Client Software Factory. It's been very fun to work on that project, and I plan to share as many tips & tricks on how the amazing Orientation Aware Control does...
p&p for smart devices: zero code adaptive UIs
Note : this entry has moved . As part of the Mobile Client Software Factory I've been working on for the past few months, we introduced the Orientation Aware Control (OAC). I blogged about it and showed it working. In this post I'll delve a little more...
A Simple Alternative to VS Add-ins
And probably you know it is based on the super-cool Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and Toolkit (GAT). Read Tom's post about what's new and improved in this release .
p&p for smart devices: solving the multiple resolution/orientation problem
Note : this entry has moved . The reality of mobile development (specially if you're creating a product) is not so different to that of web development: the clients that will be using the application may not be under your control, and they may support...
MSDN Architecture Webcast: Extending Microsoft patterns & practices ObjectBuilder
Note : this entry has moved . 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...
p&p for smart devices: the Mobile Client Software Factory
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...
Upgrading from GAT May CTP and December CTP
Note: This entry has moved These are roughly the things that you need to change in your current package: Search replace "50505" with "51206" in the entire solution. This is the changed assembly version number that appears in all your .vstemplates. Delete...
patterns & practices Guidance Automation released for Whidbey RTM!
Take a look at a quick list of the amazing features this new deliverable from patterns & practices brings to architects and expert developers interested in automating the guidance they deliver to their teams, tightly integrated in VS and full of code generation capabilities!!...
GAT podcast from TechEd 2005 with Ron Jacobs
Somehow I missed the link before. Go listen Ron and myself chatting about the Guidance Automation Toolkit and what you can do.
The Whidbey provider pattern was the tip of iceberg
Note : this entry has moved . I have complained in the past about the shortcomings of the Whidbey provider pattern (ASP.NET should I say?), which I always regarded as woefully inadecuate as a general purpose pattern for complex blocks and pluggable providers...
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