Interesting Discovery: a *book* on the CAB & SCSF!

I learned today that there was a book published a few months ago on two of my favourite technologies, the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF):

 Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory

If you're not familiar with the CAB, and you write moderately+ complex WinForms applications, then you're going to want to take a look as it provides a basis for making your life much easier; especially if you are sharing the work with other developers. The SCSF automates much of the work of creating the CAB project in the first place using Visual Studio so once you've come to understand CAB then you're going to want to take a look at that, too.

Having a book available to help learn this stuff is going to be a great help to those new to this technology as the learning curve, though not very long, is pretty darn steep so I recommend new users pick up a copy of this book to ease them up it.

The future for the CAB looks bright, too; work has commenced on updating it for leveraging WPF and it will be called the WPF Composite Client. This builds upon the work done by a very cool project I've blogged about before called Acropolis which itself builds upon the CAB, taking all the best practices and baking them into Visual Studio. They recently announced they were calling a halt on Acroplis in favour of the WPF Composite Client so the latter is definitely an important one to keep an eye on if you're a WinForms developer.