Smart Client Software Factory / CAB Extensions

New Post: SCSF and EL 4.0

punitganshani — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:01:29 GMT

Hi,

SCSF April 2008 version supports EL 3.1. Some of my components (assets) are developed in EL 4.0, which are to be used in SCSF application

Is there any way to use EL 4.0 with SCSF April 2008?

Regards,
Punit

NEW POST: Sharing dataset in 2 user controls

anmol — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:04:06 GMT

I m new to SCSF and Window Deveopment

I have created two user controls. In 1st usercontrol i placed a grid and bound it using Bindingsource. In my second user control i created a edit form and bound it using the another Bindingsource. I want to share same dataset between these 2 user controls.

What i am doning is created a class with two properties in it. One of type Dataset and second of type Bindingsource And passing this class using Event Topics. Is this method is correct? If not then wht will be the method to do so.

When selected index of grid is changing i am rasing an Event Topic and passing my class in that and in second user control it is binding the form. My problem is I want to check first if form is validated then the new selected record will be shown and if Form is not validated then the form will display the old record being edited and grids selected index will also not to change in that case.

NEW POST: Smart Client Factory + Recipe Framework Error

lizhun — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:21:17 GMT

Hi lara, I am having the same issue, it will be very kind of you to let me know the solution you found out if any, thanks in advance!

NEW POST: Changing Color Schema

rosty01 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:15:44 GMT

Is there an ability in the current Outlookbarworkspace to globaly (buttons, borders, text color etc..) change colors using custom ColorTable/ToolStripProfessionalRenderer?
Thanks?

NEW POST: Smart Client Factory + Recipe Framework Error

larroushe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:41:47 GMT

I am trying to add a business module to my project using Smart Client Factory but I am getting the following Recipe Framework Error:

Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.ValueProviderException: An exception occurred during the binding of reference or execution of recipe CreateBusinessModuleCS. Error was: An error happened while calling the value provider or evaluating the default value of argument ProfileCatalogItem..

You can remove the reference to this recipe through the Guidance Package Manager. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Microsoft.Practices.SmartClientFactory.ValueProviders.ProjectItemByNameExpressionProvider.Evaluate(Object& newValue)

at Microsoft.Practices.SmartClientFactory.ValueProviders.ProjectItemByNameExpressionProvider.OnBeginRecipe(Object currentValue, Object& newValue)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Recipe.CallProviders(IDictionary providers, IDictionaryService readonlyArguments, IDictionaryService arguments, Boolean isBefore)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Recipe.CallProviders(IDictionary providers, IDictionaryService readonlyArguments, IDictionaryService arguments, Boolean isBefore)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Recipe.Execute(Boolean allowSuspend)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.GuidancePackage.Execute(String recipe, IAssetReference reference, IDictionary arguments)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.GuidancePackage.ExecuteFromTemplate(String recipe, IDictionary arguments)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.Templates.UnfoldTemplate.ExecuteRecipe(Boolean executeActions)

at Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.Templates.UnfoldTemplate.RunStarted(Object automationObject, Dictionary`2 replacementsDictionary, WizardRunKind runKind, Object[] customParams)

I am not able to solve this issue. What could the problem be? Please, any help is appreciated!
Best Regards,
Lara

NEW POST: Vista Styling

dmayberry — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:17:25 GMT

I have been using the Outlookbar for some time now and love it, but I recently bought a laptop with Vista on it and the graphics do not look the same for some reason. Is there any plans to update the Outlookbarworkspace to look like Vista?

UPDATED WIKI: Home

matiaswoloski — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:06:42 GMT

The outlook bar was moved to SCSF Contrib project.

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matiaswoloski — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:31:49 GMT

I'm moving the outlook bar to the SCSF Contrib project. Expect new releases there.

Project Description

Extensions for Smart Client Software Factory and CAB

Get the fresh 1.0 release!!

Download the zip or msi to get the Outlook bar workspace and this cool quickstart:

Disclaimer
The code is provided as-is without warranty of any kind.

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NEW POST: "Preferred Order" support to Workspace/SmartPartInfo

matiaswoloski — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:28:26 GMT

Thanks man. I will be adding this in the next release.
By the way, I'm moving the outlook bar to the SCSF Contrib project (www.codeplex.com/scsfcontrib)

Thanks
Matias

NEW POST: "Preferred Order" support to Workspace/SmartPartInfo

deadlock — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:14:57 GMT

Hi there,
to implement a prefered order (index in my case) see following changes.

OutlookBarSmartPartInfo.cs

public class OutlookBarSmartPartInfo : SmartPartInfo
{		
		...
		private double index = -1.0; 
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Set or get the Index property of the object.
		/// <remarks>-1.0 means adding at the end..</remarks>
		/// </summary>
		public double Index
		{
			get { return this.index; }
			set { this.index = value; }
		}
		...
}

OutlookBarWorkspace.cs

public partial class OutlookBarWorkspace : UserControl, IWorkspace
{
	...
	protected virtual void AddNewButton(OutlookBarSmartPartInfo info, object smartPart, out ToolStripButton stackStripButton, out ToolStripButton overflowStripButton)
	{
		...
		//  this.overflowStrip.Items.Add(overflowStripButton);
		//  this.stackStrip.Items.Add(stackStripButton);
		//  UpdateSplitter();
		//}
 
		int index = this.GetInsertIndex(info.Index);
		this.overflowStrip.Items.Insert(index + 1, overflowStripButton);
		this.stackStrip.Items.Insert(index, stackStripButton);
		this.UpdateSplitter();
	}
 
	private int GetInsertIndex(double index)
	{
		if (index == -1.0)
		return this.stackStrip.Items.Count;
 
		int lastIndex = 0;
		foreach (ToolStripButton button in this.stackStrip.Items)
		{
			OutlookBarSmartPartInfo info = ((ISmartPartInfoProvider)button.Tag).GetSmartPartInfo(typeof(OutlookBarSmartPartInfo)) as OutlookBarSmartPartInfo;
			if (info != null)
			{
				if (info.Index == -1.0 || info.Index > index)
					break;
				lastIndex++;
			}
		}
		return lastIndex;
	}
	...
}

Thanks to Matias sharing the OutlookBarWorkspace with us.

NEW POST: "Preferred Order" support to Workspace/SmartPartInfo

matiaswoloski — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:26:58 GMT

As a workaround you can change the module load order. I know is not the solution but if that does not affect your app you can change the profilecatalog with the order of modules you want.

NEW POST: "Preferred Order" support to Workspace/SmartPartInfo

LeonidShirmanov — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:57:27 GMT

Hello,

I guess it would be very helpful if add an PreferredOrder property to OutlookbarSmartPartInfo and OutlookbarWorkspace. The order in which views are presented sometimes is very important, top-down.

http://www.codeplex.com/cabextensions/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=222

-
Thanks,
Leonid

CREATED ISSUE: Add "Preferred Order" support to Workspace/SmartPartInfo

LeonidShirmanov — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:56:13 GMT

Hello, I guess it would be very helpful if add an PreferredOrder property to OutlookbarSmartPartInfo and OutlookbarWorkspace. The order in which views are presented sometimes is very important, top-down. - Thanks, Leonid

NEW POST: Strange issue using CABext with SCSF Drop 10

LeonidShirmanov — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:20:02 GMT

Hello,

I have a strange issue with a very simple sample I'm trying to implement. Perhaps this is not OutlookBarWorkspace's problem.

I created a new smart client application using Drop 10 and tick off that I want to seporate a layout to a dedicated module. So I got here additional Infrastructure.Layout module and the entire solution compiles and works well - that's ok. Then I added one more Workspace to ShellLayoutView (actually it's OutlookBarWorkspace from CAB Extensions published on Codeplex recently). I gave it a name using WorkspaceNames in Infrastructure.Interface.

After that I have ModuleLoadException on loading when I run this sample -
"Failed to load module from assembly Infrastructure.Layout.dll
Error was: Value cannot be null, Parameter name: id"

I didn't make any change to profile xml.

Finally I've tried the same thing from scratch again creating the new solution but just without Layout module. I added the third workspace to ShellForm and in this case the sample works well.

Also I tried to recompile the Quickstart sample from CABext using CAB libraries from SCSF Drop 10 and EntLib 3.0 and in fact it works.
So I'm a bit disappointed having no idea from where this issue comes.

I will really appreciate any thoughts regarding this issue.

-
Thanks,
Leonid Shirmanov

NEW POST: bmp files are not checked in to resource folder

matiaswoloski — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:15 GMT

I've just added them. Thanks

Matias
http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/matiaswoloski

Source code checked in

matiaswoloski — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:08:32 GMT

Added missing images

NEW POST: bmp files are not checked in to resource folder

LeonidShirmanov — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:07:56 GMT

Hello,

There are several bmp files which are not actually checked in to TFS.
00040.bmp
00038.bmp

and in a calendar module also:
07262.bmp

-
Thanks,
Leonid

CREATED ISSUE: Event Topics not been removed on OutlookBar Close

seano — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:29:36 GMT

When an OutlookBar Smart Part is closed, then another with the same title and event topic is added, a duplicate key error occurs. I have fixed it by modifying the code as follows: 1 Adding the following to OutlookBarWorkspace.Designer.cs: this._deckWorkspace.SmartPartClosing += new System.EventHandler( this._deckWorkspace_SmartPartClosing ); 2 Modifiying OutlookBarWorkspace.cs: private void _deckWorkspace_SmartPartClosing(object sender, WorkspaceCancelEventArgs e) { if ( _smartParts.ContainsKey( e.SmartPart ) ) { ISmartPartInfoProvider provider = e.SmartPart as ISmartPartInfoProvider; OutlookBarSmartPartInfo info = provider.GetSmartPartInfo( typeof( OutlookBarSmartPartInfo ) ) as OutlookBarSmartPartInfo; if ( info.EventTopicName != null && info.Title != String.Empty ) { _topics.Remove( info.Title ); } this.stackStrip.Items.Remove( _smartParts[e.SmartPart] ); this.overflowStrip.Items.Remove( _buttons[_smartParts[e.SmartPart]] ); _smartParts.Remove( e.SmartPart ); UpdateSplitter(); } } public void Close(object smartPart) { if (_smartParts.ContainsKey(smartPart)) { ISmartPartInfoProvider provider = smartPart as ISmartPartInfoProvider; OutlookBarSmartPartInfo info = provider.GetSmartPartInfo( typeof( OutlookBarSmartPartInfo ) ) as OutlookBarSmartPartInfo; if ( info.EventTopicName != null && info.Title != String.Empty ) { _topics.Remove( info.Title ); } this.stackStrip.Items.Remove(_smartParts[smartPart]); this.overflowStrip.Items.Remove(_buttons[_smartParts[smartPart]]); UpdateSplitter(); } _deckWorkspace.Close(smartPart); OnSmartPartActivated(_deckWorkspace.ActiveSmartPart); }

UPDATED WIKI: Home

matiaswoloski — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:55:28 GMT

Project Description

Extensions for Smart Client Software Factory and CAB

Get the fresh 1.0 release!!

Download the zip or msi to get the Outlook bar workspace and this cool quickstart:

Disclaimer
The code is provided as-is without warranty of any kind.

NEWS FEED

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | From Matias Woloski : CAB

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Thursday, October 19, 2006 | From Matias Woloski : CAB

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Monday, October 09, 2006 | From Matias Woloski : CAB

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Saturday, October 07, 2006 | From Matias Woloski : CAB

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UPDATED WIKI: Home

matiaswoloski — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:54:19 GMT

Project Description

Extensions for Smart Client Software Factory and CAB

Get the fresh 1.0 release!!

Download the zip or msi to get the Outlook bar workspace and this cool quickstart:

Disclaimer
The code is provided as-is without warranty of any kind.

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