Welcome to patterns & practices Smart Client Guidance Community site.

Smart Client Software Factory 2010 that supports Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download.

Smart Client Software Factory 2010 Source that supports Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download.

Smart Client Software Factory 2010 Documentation is now available for download.

Smart Client Software Factory 2010 Getting Started Guide is now available

Smart Client Software Factory - April 2008 Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available.

The Smart Client Software Factory is a guidance offering that provides comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build Composite Smart Clients using the Microsoft platform (Win Forms, WPF, etc). An SCSF solution is composed of a number of discrete, independent, yet functional assemblies and components. These pieces are dynamically loaded and integrated together at runtime within a shell to form a fully coherent application.

Getting Started

The Getting Started provides recommendations on how to quickly use the guidance available in this factory.

• Click here to download the Smart Client Software Factory - April 2008 release.
• Click here for detailed instructions on Installing the factory or Upgrade From Previous Releases.
• Click here if you want to download only the Source Code Installer
• Click here if you want to download only the Smart Client Software Factory Documentation.
• Click here for a list of Known Issues.
• Click here to download the Mobile Client Software Factory - July 2006 release.
• Click here to go to the site of patterns & practices: Mobile Application Blocks that are currently being developed. The updated blocks are based on the Mobile Client Software Factory v1, July 2006. The update will allow developers to build mobile applications based on VS2008, .NET CF 3.5 and WM6.1.

Where to go next?

Action	Link
Read about the April 2008 release of the factory	SCSF MSDN Landing page
View recent announcements for the Smart Client program	Announcements
See a list of resources for getting started with SCSF	Learning Resources
Explore our compilation of tips, tricks and guidance from the Smart Client team and the community	SCSF Knowledge Base
Read blog postings from the team	Team Blogs
If you want to develop applications targeting mobile devices with VS2005, .NET2.0 and WM5.0, read about the Mobile Client Software Factory July 2006 release	MCSF MSDN Landing page
If you want to develop applications targeting mobile devices with VS2008, .NET3.5 and WM6.1, read about the patterns & practices: Mobile Application Blocks	patterns & practices: Mobile Application Blocks

Participation

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