Anyone remember the Mobile Client Software factory?
If you have read our Microsoft Press book, Mobile Development Handbook, you will know that quite a few of the security and web service samples use application blocks from the MCSF. Unfortunately, it's kinda hard to use the MCSF with Visual Studio 2008, because the installer for the MCSF requires pre-reqs of some Visual Studio add-ins that were only available for Visual Studio 2005 and are hard to find now.
Thankfully, Microsoft patterns & practices group are doing a refresh! All the best bits from MCSF v1 are being upgraded and updated to Visual Studio 2008, and there are some interesting new additions, especially the ContainerModel block which is a fast, lightweight Inversion of Control container. I'll be blogging a lot more on these topics over the next few months. You can download the latest drop of these bits at http://mobile.codeplex.com and there are also a lot of additions done mainly by myself and fellow MVP Nick Randolph which you can find at http://mobilecontrib.codeplex.com .
At Tech Ed last week, I spent 20 minutes talking to camera about this new effort and why I am so excited about it. Andrej Radinger asked the questions. See this video at Tech·Ed Online: patterns & practices Mobile Application Blocks v.Next.
Posted
May 22 2009, 07:01 AM
by
Andy Wigley