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The Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) is a guidance offering that provides architecture guidance to help developers build Composite Smart Clients using the Microsoft platform.

From the SCSF homepage on CodePlex:

The Smart Client Software Factory is a guidance offering that provides comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build Composite Smart Clients using the Microsoft platform (Win Forms, WPF, etc). An SCSF solution is composed of a number of discrete, independent, yet functional assemblies and components. These pieces are dynamically loaded and integrated together at runtime within a shell to form a fully coherent application.

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Experiences of the Smart Client Software Factory

Has anyone had any experience in building a 'real world' application with the Smart Client Software Factory, from Microsofts Patterns and Practices group? I'm looking for advice on how difficult it was to master, whether it decreased your time to…
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Is MS SCSF-CAB framework outdated, is there a better framework now?

Seems no more discussion about MS SCSF-CAB, is this framework outdated? is there a better framework?
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Get Active Smartpart from another smart part

I am working on customized smart client application. I want to know active smartpart from another smart part. As I am using command handler as per user demand One button "New" will be used for all forms. If I open more then one views/smartpart and…
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Can I host an ASP.NET application in a CAB WinForms application?

I have a .NET 2.0 WinForms application that was developed using the Composite Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory. I'm considering the development of a module that would contain a browser control that would access the ASP.NET website…
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Unable to add a view to some projects using Smart Client Factory 2010

I used to be able to add a view using the Smart Client Factory context menu in solution manager. However now the only option available is "Create Disconnected Service Agent". Having said that one of the projects has the "Add View" menu…
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What is the best practice for domain model re-use in composite applications?

We have a composite application built using the Composite UI Application Block (CAB)/Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF). To date, each module in our composite app has used its own set of DTO's, and business logic has been duplicated throughout…
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Composite Application Block - Is there a suitable replacement available?

I have two very large WinForm applications built on the now dead Composite Application Block ("CAB") from Microsoft Patterns & Practices. I was an earlier adopter and jumped in first to embrace and use CAB. Well, now that it's truly dead I'm…
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SCSF Recipe Framework Error

I am experiencing a random issue with the SCSF 2010 guidance package when I try to add a View with Presenter in my VS2010 project. This also happens when I try to add a Business Module as well. The issue seems to happen randomly because the same…
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Formula to estimate time to build SCSF-CAB / WPF-Composite

In my company management is looking for screen-pumping-machine/production-line-factory for data centric (form entry) windows apps. And I am for the task to build the tool that should automate the estimations given the technical requirements. I am…
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Using SCSF with visual studio 2010

I am now using SCSF 2008 April version with visual studio 2008. Now i want to convert my whole solution in visual studio 2010. So what should i do abput SCSF?
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Thread synchronization and decoupled classes

I have 2 decoupled classes, class A and class B, these two classes communicate with each other with event publication and event subscription using Mircosoft CAB framework : public class ClassA { [EventPublication("ActionFired",…
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In SCSF/CAB Can I ask the framework for the workitem containing "this" smartpart?

I'm looking for something like: WorkItem item = CompositeUI...GiveMeTheWorkItem(this); The code I've inherited is injecting the root workitem into everything which seems a bit long winded.
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the best way to store tree like information in app.config

What would be the best way to store a tree like the one below in app.config and how would I deserialize this information from it? Tree |-node1- | |-name - value | |-name - value | | ...... |-node2- | |-name - value | …
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where can I get Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll?

I'm rebuilding a project that uses: Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll And I can't find it anywhere as a download: Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 - this creates the folder "SCSF-Apr2008" with a "lib" directory that…
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CAB: Get service instance without having a reference to WorkItem

Is it possible to get an instance of a service without having a WorkItem context? I have a some classes that need to access some services, and i'm wondering if it's possible to get those services without explicitly injecting those services in the…
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