Microsoft UIP (User Interface Process)
If you want to learn more about the upcoming Microsoft UIP blueprint, you'd better listen to Michael Stuart's interview.
UIP is about:
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MVC, controller, navigation and workflow
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Common code for WebForms and WinForms and other user interfaces
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and more...
It seems something is on its way for June.
"Michael Stuart is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) and has been completely taken with .NET. He is working on the next generation of Microsoft Application Blocks, or BlueBricks, a collection of classes that you can use for free in your applications, that use best-practices in a variety of areas.
He talks with us about the current blocks available, for ADO.NET and Exception Handling, and also gives us a sneak peek at the next bluebricks coming down the road, including a User Interface facade layer, an application updater (using the BITS Background Internet Transfer Service), and a Configuration Manager block for dealing with config files, including code for persisting connection strings. "