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Enterprise Library v3: The Plan
Thanks again to everyone who shared their ideas and priorities for the next release of Enterprise...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 09/27/2006
p&p Installers in the Vista World
Yesterday I took the plunge and installed Windows Vista RC1 and Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 09/15/2006
Enterprise Library feature voting: The results are in!
We had a fantastic response to the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 3.0 feature prioritization...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 09/05/2006
What do you mean, you want a Business Rules and Workflow Application Block?
Thanks to everybody who has already responded to the Enterprise Library v3 Feature Prioritization...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 08/30/2006
Debugging Guidance Packages
In the last couple of weeks a couple of people have pinged me to ask about how to best test and...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 08/27/2006
Enterprise Library Exit Poll is back
Over a year ago, we ran our first "Exit Poll" survey for Enterprise Library. This was an anonymous,...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 08/15/2006
Service Factory Hands-On Lab Now Available
Don has been slaving away day and night and has finally paid some dividends with the release of the...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 08/11/2006
The dogfood cube appears to be down
I just got an e-mail with this subject line. And amazingly enough it even made some sense to me. But...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 08/02/2006
Jezz Santos on Software Factories
While I'm (hopefully understandably) excited about the progress that our team has made on Software...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 07/31/2006
Just Released: Web Service Software Factory
The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce the availability of the first "official"...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 07/29/2006
Manageability Extensions for Enterprise Library January 2006
If it's true that men are from Mars and women from Venus, then it would probably be fair to say that...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 07/20/2006
Software Factories: The Next Generation
First, a little comic relief about factories and meta-factories. In case you haven't noticed, the...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 07/17/2006
What is going to happen with UIP?
Recently I asked you all for your suggestions on what we should include in Enterprise Library for...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 07/17/2006
Patch for Partial Trust support in Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
While we know that Enterprise Library appeals to a wide range of developers, our core target has...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/30/2006
July Community Drop of Web Service Software Factory
It must be the end of the fiscal year of something, because we have yet another new release to tell...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/26/2006
Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit: June 2006 Release
The patterns & practices team is please to announce the availability of the June 2006 CTP of the...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/24/2006
MSDN Magazine article on building your own application block
The July 2006 edition of MSDN Magazine arrived in my mailbox today, and it contains a great article...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/10/2006
GAX and GAT update, and introducing the Guidance Navigator.
Wojtek has finally emerged from his self-inflicted blogging exile to inform the world that we're on...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/07/2006
What the Da Vinci Code and the Bible have in common
After holding out for a long time, I finally went out and read The Da Vinci Code. I'm generally too...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 06/03/2006
Guidance Explorer
Hands up if you've read every page of a patterns & practices guide such as Improving .NET...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 05/31/2006
Service Factory: May CTP and a new blogcast
Just a quick note to let you know that the May Community Preview of the Web Service Software Factory...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 05/15/2006
Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 now available!
The long-awaited hands-on labs for Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 are now available. The...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 05/04/2006
Enterprise Library Oddities: Why does the DAAB always show up in my configuration?
If you've played with Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0, you may have wondered why the Data...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/26/2006
Don "blogcasts" on Service Factory
Have you heard about this new Service Factory thing but you're not sure how to get started? One...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/20/2006
Webcast on Enterprise Library Extensibility: Building Your Own Designtime
Apologies for the late notice, but Brian and I will be presenting a webcast on building your own...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/20/2006
Source code for ASP.NET 2.0 Providers
One of the bigger changes we made to Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 was the removal of...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/14/2006
First community drop of the Web Service Software Factory now available!
The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce that the first public drop of the Web...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/12/2006
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...
Ever since we first released Enterprise Library, a lot of people have wanted to be able to log...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/02/2006
External configuration files in Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0
I don't know if it's the onset of spring (or autumn, depending on your hemisphere), but judging from...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 04/02/2006
A new journey for Brian Button
Brian Button has just announced that he's accepted a new role with Asynchrony Solutions as Vice...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/23/2006
Some bloody cool Enterprise Library v2 Extensions
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party here - but better late than never! There are a couple of really...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 03/22/2006
Invitation to Design For Operations for Developers Workshop
Dear Valued Microsoft Customer, Your organization is invited to send representatives to attend the...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/24/2006
"Design for Operations" Workshop in Redmond, March 27-28
First, thanks to everyone who attended the patterns & practices Summit in Sydney this past week...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/24/2006
Webcast: Building your own block with Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
Via Brian (because I can't be bothered paraphrasing the same content :-) This Thursday, Tom...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 02/08/2006
Enterprise Library Extensions for .NET 2.0 release
Olaf is at it again. This time he's building a comprehensive set of Enterprise Library Extensions...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/31/2006
A Reflected Property formatter token for the Logging Application Block
In my last post I cracked open the Logging Application Block to extend the Text Formatter so it...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/28/2006
Of Timestamps and Timezones in the new Logging Application Block
One of the changes we made in the Logging Application Block in the new January 2006 release was to...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/22/2006
Brian blogs on ObjectBuilder and EntLib
More than a few people have peeked behind the curtain of Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 and have...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/09/2006
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everybody! I'm fresh off the plane from a couple of great weeks in Australia...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 01/03/2006
Just Released! GAT, and all sorts of other cool stuff...
It's been a busy couple of weeks over in Building 5! With the holidays approaching quickly, the...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/13/2005
Scott says farewell to p&p
Scott Densmore has just officially announced that he's leaving the patterns & practices team to...
Author: Tom Hollander Date: 12/08/2005