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Enterprise Library: The Videos

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For quite some time, Don has been been putting together short video tutorials on the Web Service Software Factory (including a brand new one giving a preview of the upcoming v3 release). Up until now I've never tried this, but Don has been getting pretty good feedback on his videos, and I've seen more than a few requests for something similar for Enterprise Library.

So I thought I would boldly go down the video tutorial path too, or at least dip my toes in the water. I've added a new Videos page to the Enterprise Library Community site, containing two initial videos demonstrating how to create new providers (for the Validation Application Block in this example) and one on creating new application blocks using the Application Block Software Factory:

Since I've never done these before, I'm sure there is room for improvement - so please let me know if you have any suggestions, whether you want any more videos like this, and which topics you'd like to see covered in the future. Or alternatively, if you think you may be able to do better, we'd be more than happy to add links to your own video tutorials.

Update (April 12th) - added link to 3rd tutorial on the ABSF

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  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2007
    Superb! EntLib 3.0 in Action. Please do more to show the workflow in IDE.

  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2007
    Great stuff! I do hope you can do a more thorough set of videos similar to the ones on www.asp.net in the Learning section. The WCF Software Factories also deserve a lot more attention.

  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2007
    Hi, Your video was great... But I am not able to see any Guidance Specific project in my File-->New project nor the help realted that was showcased in the video. Do i need to install anything for that ?

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2007
    Hi Pavan - You need to install the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718949.aspx before you can install the factories and guidance packages. EntLib will install without GAX, but I think you should be able to rerun the installer after you install GAX and add the guidance packages afterwards. Tom

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2007
    Great stuff. Video blogging is MUCH MUCH more instructive and helpful for us. Words can tell so much but a video is be more valuable. Keep up the great work Tom. -Al

  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2007
    Thanks for the feedback Anthony - any constructive criticism is extremely welcome :-) A couple of quick responses: Since the third video was a bit longer than the others, I needed to encode at a lower quality from the first two to keep the file size acceptable. It looks like I may have lowered it a little too much though - I can try to improve this in the future. Also I couldn't borrow the good microphone I used in the first two videos, so the audio wasn't so good on this last one. Also I know it can be hard to follow all of the code on the video (particularly when some of it was cut off by my window size), so I made the sample code available online at http://www.codeplex.com/entlib/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Videos&referringTitle=Home Thanks again! Tom

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2007
    Hi Tom, Videos were good but (and I don't know if this applies to this discussion), can you direct me on where to get examples of patterns & practices on using the new version of the enterprise library 3.0 but without the GAX? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    Thanks Mustafa. You only need GAX to use (and install) the Application Block Software Factory and the Strong Naming Guidance Package. Everything else works without GAX.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply.  But I may have phrased my question incorrectly.  We are building an application using ASP.NET 2.0 and want to use the Enterprise Library 3.0.  We want to find the various ways of designing the various layers (presentation, service, domain, data) etc. using the library via patterns & best practices.  Most of the information available on the internet is either too general, describes the inner workings of the blocks or refers to previous versions of .NET Framework and enterprise library.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2007
    Better late than never... I have combined the last 3 weeks. In the pipeline: So much is in the pipeline

  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2007
    I would like to start with my full respect to anyone who has been working on developing Custom Application