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Software Factories Exit Poll

It's been almost a year since we released our first software factory. In the months leading up to...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 05/08/2007

Help Wanted! "p&p Contrib" is open for business!

Making our deliverables extensible has always been an important goal for p&p. While we do our...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 05/02/2007

Enterprise Library 3.0 Drill-Down Webcasts

Right about the time we released Enterprise Library 3.0, Ed and I presented a webcast that gave a...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/25/2007

Validation Application Block, meet WPF

One of the few features we needed to cut from Enterprise Library 3.0 was a Windows Presentation...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/24/2007

Welcome Glenn Block to p&p!

The patterns & practices team is very excited to welcome Glenn Block to the team. Glenn has...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/21/2007

Avoiding configuration pitfalls with incompatible copies of Enterprise Library

When you install Enterprise Library 3.0, you actually get two distinct copies of the library. One...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/19/2007

VSIP Factory on CodePlex

While the initial crop of patterns & practices software factories target different types of...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/10/2007

Enterprise Library: The Videos

For quite some time, Don has been been putting together short video tutorials on the Web Service...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/10/2007

Effective Policy Viewer for the Policy Injection Application Block

I hope you're enjoying the new release of Enterprise Library! One of the more interesting inclusions...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/06/2007

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Yes, it's finally here. The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce the official...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/05/2007

It's Census Time!

No we're not going to ask you any questions about your age, race or income. This is an application...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/04/2007

"Enterprise Library 3.0 - What's New?" Webcast on tomorrow, March 27th

We're currently putting the final coat of polish onto Enterprise Library 3.0, and we should have the...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/26/2007

Clarius updates the Software Factories Toolkit

Hot on the heals of the release of the February 2007 CTP of the Guidance Automation Extensions and...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/26/2007

"Application Architecture for .NET" 2 - The Revenge

One of the first major deliverables produced by the patterns & practices team is Application...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/23/2007

It's Webcast Time!

We've been in a bit of a webcast drought in p&p for a little while, but we're trying to make...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/16/2007

More ways to inject policies

I wanted to quickly fill you in on a couple of new additions we've made to the Policy Injection...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/07/2007

Configuring the Policy Injection Application Block

In my last post I promised you a bit of help in evaluating the preview of the Policy Injection...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/02/2007

Just Released: Enterprise Library 3.0 February 2007 CTP

OK, I know the sun has already set on February in some parts of the world, but over here it's still...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/28/2007

Thoughts on Product Management

A lot has been written about the constantly evolving disciplines of development, test and project...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/25/2007

Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit: February 2007 Community Technology Preview

This document provides information about the February 2007 Community Technology Preview of the...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/23/2007

Announcing the Policy Injection Application Block

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Enterprise Library 3.0, we have...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/23/2007

Environmental Overrides in Enterprise Library 3.0

One very cool new feature which will debut in the next (and final) CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 is...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/18/2007

Software Factory Building Roundup

There have been a few great posts in the last couple of weeks about building software factories....

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/12/2007

Software Factories: 100,000 served!

Soma, our division's VP, has just announced on his blog that the first four patterns & practices...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/27/2007

patterns & practices on Channel 9

A few months ago, Peter and Ed took the Channel 9 audience through a guided tour of our shiny new...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/25/2007

One-Stop Shopping for the p&p Development Plan

One complaint that we've heard fairly frequently is that the p&p team isn't transparent enough...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/21/2007

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 January 2007 CTP

The second CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 is now available to download on our CodePlex community...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/19/2007

Validation Application Block in the January 2007 CTP

Our team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the January 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/17/2007

Validators supplied in the VAB

We're making great progress with the Validation Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0, and one...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/09/2007

Standard Disclaimer

Your mileage may vary. May contain traces of nuts. Professional driver on closed circuit: do not...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/29/2006

EntLib 3.0: Strong Naming Guidance Package

I hope you all had a great Christmas, or whatever else you may or may not choose to celebrate at...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/28/2006

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - December 2006 CTP

If you'd planned to spend the Christmas holidays drinking beer, watching cricket and eating way too...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/22/2006

Clarius releases Software Factories Toolkit CTP

In order to build the best possible deliverables, the patterns & practices team pulls in a...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/19/2006

Survey on your use of patterns

Via Dragos Manolescu: In the patterns & practices (p&p) group at Microsoft we have been...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/14/2006

Block Building Made Easy

One of the coolest new capabilities we're building for Enterprise Library v3 is the Application...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/13/2006

Validation Application Block: Revealed!

I'm sitting at home, still slowly digesting turkey, watching the snow fall outside the window, and...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 11/27/2006

Installing GAT/GAX and factories under Windows Vista

Now that Windows Vista is here, I know a lot of people are going to want to run GAT/GAX and Software...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 11/26/2006

DSL and GAT: Together at last (sort of)

Combining automated guidance and Domain-Specific Languages is one of the key themes for the...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 11/09/2006

...And I disapprove of this message

Here in the United States, it's election time again. Being an "alien" (as the US government insists...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 10/20/2006

The Emperor's New Web-based Office Suite

Every couple of years, the tech media giants get together to hold a secret meeting. According to my...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 10/13/2006

How sausage is made: a look inside the p&p offices

Ever wanted to see how the patterns & practices team works and where we live? Even if you're a...

Author: Tom Hollander Date: 09/27/2006

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