C. Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF)

  1. Feedback from the original release of CAB provided an object lesson to Microsoft. Developers liked the idea of a prefabricated toolkit for writing rich client applications. However, these developers reported that they found CAB difficult to use for two main reasons.

    First, few tools existed for helping them develop CAB applications. There were, for example, no wizards to generate the shell of a CAB application. Developers had to generate a standard Windows Forms project and modify the application files to make it use the CAB libraries. They had to cut and paste lots of code, do more repetitive grunt work than they had to do with other types of applications—more than they felt that they should have had to. ...

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