CMoya
Wed Dec 19 18:28:17 CST 2007
Although it is a shell (around your child forms) it has nothing to with
Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer.
"Richard Coltrane" <rc@spamsux.com> wrote in message
news:up8TYMpQIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi There,
>
> Thanks for that, I will look it over. I actually skimmed over that
> yesterday when i was at CodePlex looking through the open source
> componentry. I just assumed, given its name, that is was some kinda
> WindowsExplorer type shell and therefore not something I was interested
> in.
>
> To be fair to the CAB there is actually quite a lot of info..... but they
> (patterns website) dont have a very good roadmap IMHO around these
> frameworks. If i have to roll my own then fine and blocks like the
> Enterprise Library offer some great base assets.... but its the tone of
> the site. It suggests to me they have got us and our middle ground covered
> with "something, somewhere" but what and where that "thing" is I dont
> know.
>
> I appreciate this is architecture/design and therefore something that
> requires a decent level of consideration but frankly I like a good tabular
> graphic (or some other structure) to show where things fit. Even if a cell
> is left blank, such as for the seeming middle ground between Enterprise
> Library and CAB, then that in itself provides a lot of info. i.e roll your
> own.
>
> I'll muddle through it because that's my job but sometimes it does feel
> like they have you chasing ghosts.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
> "CMoya" <moy@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:C2584CC9-926F-4687-93EE-D583F1932D95@microsoft.com...
>> That's the problem with much of MS's half-hearted aftermarket efforts
>> (there's hardly ever any follow-through). You might want to look at this:
>>
http://www.codeplex.com/appexplore
>> It's essentially a template that contains all the plumbing for building
>> modular UI's without tieing you down to a stifling framework or deriving
>> your forms from some base class. It supports tabbed MDI (like the tabs in
>> Visual Studio) and a bunch of other stuff.
>>
>> It's completely open source. You can modify it however way you see fit.
>>
>> "Richard Coltrane" <rc@spamsux.com> wrote in message
>> news:ecV8CaeQIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Ive been looking at the Patterns practises site. The UI App Block
>>> appears to have been phased out. Although you can access it the tone
>>> appears to be "dont - theres something better". But the only other
>>> "thing" i can find is the CAB. This appears to be quite a heavy weight
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> Is there anything in the middle for a comparatively simple standalone
>>> CRM solution? Should we be just be looking towards the Enterprise
>>> library and rolling our own from there? The CAB looks like it could be
>>> useful in long term future. i.e. a standalone CRM kinda sounds like a
>>> contridiction in terms.... so plugging into other apps and services will
>>> be an obvious evolution... but again the tone of the CAB seems very
>>> Fortune 500 and heavy weight.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts appreciated.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>
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