Eugenio Pace
Preparing to be wrong
Simple CAB demos
I've recently started writing down step by step instructions describing the typical introductory...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/06/2006
CAB Demos series - Part I
Introductory Composite UI Application Block demos This document explains how to run simple...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/05/2006
CAB Hands On Labs released
We have just released to our community site the updated Hands on Labs for CAB in C#. The newly...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/28/2005
CAB Hands On Labs? when? where? what's up?
You might be wondering where the Hands on labs for CAB are. And it's a very fair questions. We had...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/27/2005
Visit to Argentina
Last week I was invited to Argentina to work for a couple for days with a local customer and...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/26/2005
Partner offerings based on CAB
I'm very happy to see a number of partners already leveraging our deliverables in their products. A...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/16/2005
CAB Visualizations - An eye into a running CAB application
To provide better information on how a CAB based application works we included in the runtime...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/11/2005
CAB standalone documentation
If you'd like to evaluate CAB before installing it, or you simply want the documents (for example,...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/08/2005
CAB - Released!
Released! Check it out here:...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/07/2005
CAB in Visual Basic.NET
We are very pleased to announce the release of the Composite UI Application Block Release Candidate...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/28/2005
An Apology to all our Community Members
As a product manager, I’m responsible, among other things, for the relationship between our...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/18/2005
CAB and ClickOnce
There have been a number of questions that we received about using ClickOnce and CAB based...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/16/2005
Composite UI Application Block - November 2005 Release in C#
The Microsoft patterns & practices Smart Client Team is pleased to announce the release of the...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/14/2005
Composite UI Application Block - another webcast - new demos
My colleagues Ed Jezierski and Peter Provost joined Ron Jacobs again last week in a new edition of a...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/30/2005
More articles on CAB changes by the dev team - The official list
Here's a compilation of all articles on CAB CTP2 and changes introduced since CTP1. I plan to keep...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/10/2005
Good articles on CAB CTP2 changes that might affect you
Brad Wilson and Ed Jezierski have posted good articles drilling down on specific changes on CAB....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/08/2005
CAB October 2005 Community Technical Preview - release notes
It's out there! check https://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/cab for the new community technical...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/01/2005
CAB at JAOO
Last week JAOO Conference took place in Aarhus, Denmark. This is probably one of the best software...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/29/2005
CAB CTP2 Release plan updated
We have just announced a new release plan for the CAB. The CTP 2 will be available on October 7th....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
VB6 Migration Guide on Dr Dobbs (DDJ)
Last week our Keith Pleas and I were interviewed by the guys at Dr Dobbs Journal about the upcoming...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
New version of the VB6 Migration Guide including the Assessment Tool
The patterns & practices Visual Basic migration development team is pleased to make available a...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/10/2005
CAB Lab Webcast
Last week our star presenter, Ron Jacobs, gave another formidable presentation on CAB using another...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/06/2005
CAB V1.0 Release plan published
We just published the Release plan for CAB v1.0: Essentially we are planning a new community code...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/02/2005
Agile Software Development
Lately, there has been an increasing interest in applying agile methods for software development....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/30/2005
August CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 available to download
Yes! it's out there. For all of you (us :-) ) that have been eagerly waiting for this new release,...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/27/2005
My next CAB projects
I've been playing with CAB bits for a while now. The team had this "project week" some time ago...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/21/2005
CAB hands on labs, ready for download!
We've just posted a slightly modified version of the Labs content we used during the event in...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/15/2005
VB6 Upgrade Guide
For those thinking about moving forward those VB6 applications to the .NET platform, but have doubts...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/11/2005
Missed the previous CAB webcast? here's another opportunity...
Don't miss our web cast next Thursday 11th. 10:30 am (PST, GMT -8). Ron Jacobs and Peter Provost...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/09/2005
CAB training event in Redmond
We are pleased to announce a 2 day, instructor-led training event for the upcoming Composite UI...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/24/2005
CAB Community Drop #2
Yesterday we published the second community release of the CAB that includes almost all features...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/17/2005
CAB Webcast archive
Just in case you missed the live edition of the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) web cast, you...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/02/2005
CAB GPS Sample
In last week's web cast, Ed and I showed a very simple example of CAB. Actually, this is based on...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
Want to know more about CAB?
Don't miss our web cast next Thursday 19th. 11:00 am (PST, GMT -8) Edward Jezierski, Ron Jacobs and...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/14/2005
Guidance Automation Toolkit
Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) is the latest deliverable from patterns & practices....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/14/2005
Who am I?
My bio (since many of you asked :-)): I'm a product manager at Microsoft patterns & practices,...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/12/2005
Application Blocks for the .NET Compact Framework
I've been asked the question many times: "When are you going to ship your blocks for the Compact...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/12/2005
Playing with the CAB EventBroker
I decided to play a little bit with the code today and EdJez's idea of building an application for a...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/12/2005
Composite UI Application Block
What is this about? You've probably seen some posts in EdJez's blog on the Composite UI Application...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/11/2005
Updater Application Block V2.0 webcast recordings
Check out here for a recorded version of the webcast I did with Harry Pierson....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/20/2005
Updater Application Block Webcast
Don't miss the opportunity of watching this introductory web cast on Updater Application Block V2.0...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/12/2005
Patch 1475 for Configuration Application Block released
Important note for users of Enterprise Library: We recently found a memory leak issue in the...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/08/2005
We are hiring!
If you think you can contribute to patterns & practices success check out these two new openings...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/23/2005
Cool video on Offline Application Block
Check out this excellent demo video by Scott Swigart at:...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/17/2005
Updater Application Block V2.0
Updater V2.0 is out! See...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/11/2005
VB6 -> VB.NET
Evolving applications in VB6 to take advantage of .NET. That's one of the topics for patterns &...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/09/2005
Ask for feedback! Guidance for .NET Compact Framework enterprise development
The Smart Client Team at Microsoft patterns & practices needs your feedback to evaluate the need...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/08/2005
50 years ago...
... a great machine was born: the VW Karmann Ghia. A perfect combination of german mechanics and...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/28/2005
Enterprise Library has shipped!
Yes! it's out there! Congratulations to my colleages at patterns & practices for this incredible...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/28/2005