Get practical, hands-on instruction for learning the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and the Smart Client Software Factory. Using just your fundamental Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual C# skills, you’ll work through seven lessons that present real-world scenarios. Each lesson is based on proven classroom guidance - building the skills your need to easily create user interface components for smart-client solutions.
Discover how to:
* Generate a shell application and implement prefabricated or custom CAB services
* Use work items and controllers to share resources in loosely coupled applications
* Optimize visual information display by using Workspaces and SmartParts
* Add and modify menus, toolbars, and status bars by using the CAB user interface extension
* Announce and receive asynchronous events within an application
* Invoke methods in the Action Catalog service to coordinate application business-logic
* Match CAB constructs to Windows Presentation Foundation
IntroductionChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Shell and ServicesChapter 3: WorkItems and ControllersChapter 4: Workspaces and SmartPartsChapter 5: Shared User Interface ExtensionChapter 6: Event SystemChapter 7: Action Catalog ServiceChapter 8: CAB and WPFGenerics
|
0121 702 2828 
Published by: MICROSOFT PRESS