Correction --- next webcast series "The Architecture of Modern Desktop Apps"

Hi Joe,

I'm trying to find the source code for your 2nd of 15 series of webcasts (GUI Architecture). If it is abailable, would you let me know where?

Thank you,
David Straley
david.straley@sandyhook.com

Hi David. There's a small "webcasts" link on my blog here that takes you to the resources (PPT, demos, etc.) for the webcast series. Here's the direct URL:

http://pluralsight.com/drjoe/webcasts/webcasts.aspx

Cheers,

- joe

Hi David. There's a small "webcasts" link on my blog here that takes you to the resources (PPT, demos, etc.) for the webcast series. Here's the direct URL:

http://pluralsight.com/drjoe/webcasts/webcasts.aspx

Cheers,

- joe
Hi David. There's a small "webcasts" link on my blog here that takes you to the resources (PPT, demos, etc.) for the webcast series. Here's the direct URL:

http://pluralsight.com/drjoe/webcasts/webcasts.aspx

Cheers,

- joe

The Power point slides are available but the Demo App/Source Code is still not available. When might we be able to get these?

Frank Corrao
frank.corrao@halliburton.com

Frank,download the files. The code is in there.

Joe, thanks for doing the series. My brain hurts!

I'm having a hard time understanding why the Adapter pattern makes sense. To me it seems like these adapters need to be somewhat tightly coupled with the view because in order to pass information into the commands they need to go acess buttons and text boxes and things like that. So it seems like you're going to build adapters for every situation and not gain a lot of reuse or flexibility.

Am I missing something? Or do I just need to work with it for a while before it becomes clear?

Glen, you have it right, use of the Adapter pattern ends up tightly coupling the client to the adapter. But the theory is that this is better than tightly coupling the client to the server. Examples of when the Adapter pattern makes sense are:

1. The server is servicing existing clients and so you can't change the server to handle the new clients. So you have to adapt the existing interface for the new clients.

2. You have multiple clients at the start and the clients don't easily lend themselves to a common server interface. So you create the best server interface you can, and adapt it as necessary to the clients.

We're falling into case #2, trying to adapt the event handling (which is different for WinForms vs. WebForms) to a common controller. Another approach would be to create multiple controllers, one for each presentation tier, with a Controller base class to hold common functionality.

If your goal is just a Winforms / SmartClient app, and you don't foresee multiple presentation tiers hooked to a common controller/backend, then the Adapter pattern would be overkill ("over-design").

Cheers!

- joe

I am trying to redesign a current application both as a learning experience and to enhance the current application. I have multiple scenarios. I have a dual platform environment where I have both PCs and MACs. I have a need for a disconnected environment as well. But there are some instances where I will to use a smart device that uses Windows CE.

Can I use the MVC Pattern and create a tiered approach to build a SmartClient, WebClient, and a SmartDevice Version? Or do I need to scale things differently for the SmartDevice Version?

Thank you in advance for any and all advice.

Michael Moore

Hi. if we think of the MVC as a triad, do we have to do this triad for every business object. eg. Employees has the following..
1. Employee
2. Employees
3. UIController_Employee
4. View_Employee

will I need the same set of 4 for other MODELS eg Customer. will I now need
1. Cutomer
2. Cutomers
3. UIController_Cutomer
4. View_Cutomer
etc.

Is it possible to have a single controller and swop out views and models..

Hi Riva, I typically package the demo apps & source code to the webcasts in with the powerpoint slides; look for a sub-folder called "Demos". Here's the URL for the downloads:

http://pluralsight.com/drjoe/webcasts/webcasts.aspx

Are you looking for a particular webcast or demo?

If it is abailable, would you let me know where?

Hi Athena, all webcast materials are availble at this URL:

http://pluralsight.com/drjoe/webcasts/webcasts.aspx

You'll also find links to watch the webcasts. Or perhaps you are looking for something else?

I realize this is just over a year old but I have been going through your webseries (The Architecture of Modern Desktop Applications in .NET, Modern Software Development in .NET and C#) to augment my courses. They are a great series.

I downloaded all the zip files from pluralsight and some of the demo zip files have password-protected files. Are these passwords available?

Thanks,

Justin Dietz
jdietz@wsu.edu