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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