Chapter 2

1 It’s a mystery that they didn’t choose Microsoft’s excellent Visual Studio Team Foundation Server for this purpose.

2 The CJKW developers show some naiveté with respect to coding practice. The repetitive use of literal strings is inadvisable. And, as they discovered eventually, bolting the statechart into the UI code isn’t the best strategy. However, the fragment serves to illustrate the example.

3 A “designer” is a graphical or other non-textual editor hosted in Visual Studio.

4 All of the authors of this book have had this experience, which we refer to as a “meta-moment” (in the hope that it is usually transistory).

5 The term “template ” is somewhat overloaded. A Visual Studio solution or project template creates a skeleton ...

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