Kris Kumar
06-12-2006, 12:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/mcsflp.asp' target='_blank'>http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/mcsflp.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Architects and developers identify and discover the proven practices and patterns through application development. This is an extensive process, especially when proven practices and patterns are discovered later in the application life cycle and force application refactoring. Alternatively, development teams can investigate and attempt to identify proven practices and patterns before starting the application development project. This also can be a time consuming and difficult activity because patterns and practices are most easily identified during actual application development. With the Mobile Client Software Factory, architects and developers can quickly incorporate many of the proven patterns and practices of mobile client development. The offering provides you with a set of proven practices that are exposed through patterns, How-to topics, reference implementations, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit packages, reusable components, and documentation. The factory content guides you through the development of mobile applications based on the Compact Composite User Interface Application Block architecture. By using the factory, architects and developers can focus more of their efforts on implementing business requirements."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Jun06-PnP.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />The patterns & practices team has been busy and they have have released a Community Technical Preview of their latest developer building blocks, the Mobile Client Software Factory. I am pretty impressed with the features and the contents of this release, which is aimed at the Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. As someone who tries to code for fun, I know that the Windows Mobile SDK and the .NET Compact Framework has a lot of gaps. The Mobile Client Software Factory and the awesome add-on SDK from the OpenNETCF.org folks fills some of the gaps. The other good news is that the Mobile Client Software Factory will continue to evolve through June 2006 and the team will be publishing weekly updates, so don't forget to check out the updates every week.