Community! As you know we are currently working on EntLib4.1/Unity1.2. We’ve already addressed a number of stories, including one of the most requested features of Unity – improved support for generics. In particular, we now fully support generic decorator chains.

Check out the most recent drop on Codeplex under Source Code.

You can also expect us to do drops regularly at the end of each bi-weekly iteration. Please continue sending your feedback to us.

On Monday, we  released our CTP2 on Codeplex: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance.

You’ll see it now includes the consumption model and also some recommendations on how to read the guide. There are three parts. Part I. Narratives and Models - this is a short section that is meant to be read end-to-end. This is where we define readiness assessment and acceptance testing and introduce several models that help conceptualize software acceptance. Among other things we discuss decision making process, risk evaluation, the doneness model and its variants for agile and Tayloristic processes. Part II consists of what we refer to as “Thumbnails”. Those are the short descriptions of various useful practices that also provide information on their applicability, risks addressed, implementation options and additional resources. The Thumbnails are complemented by the actual samples  (Part III) that we’ve produced on a sample system (Global Bank). Both thumbnails and samples are meant to be used as references and in any order. 

You’ll notice there are still a number of empty sections. If you see an empty section, assume we will fill in the section before we complete the book.

Please provide it by posting a reply to the corresponding thread under Discussions on codeplex or as a reply to this blog post.

The demo from the Enterprise Library 4.0 webcast we did yesterday is posted on Codeplex.

Now can also find the demos from the webcasts on Unity here.

We are planning three webcasts on EntLib4 and Unity. Pencil in the tentative dates:

§  Taking advantage of Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200 – Intro)

July 10, 13:00-14:30pm Pacific

Register

§  Introduction to dependency injection with Unity (Level 200 – Intro)

July 11, 12:00-13:00 Pacific

Register

§  Extending the Unity dependency injection container (Level 400 – Advanced)

July 24, 13:00-14:30 Pacific

Register

We’ll be doing lots of demos of the goodness in EntLib and Unity. I’ll post the links to the registration site as soon as they become available on MS Events.

Cheers,

Grigori

We have posted a short survey on the practices of acceptance testing that I would like to invite you to answer. Your thoughtful responses will help us focus the guide on issues that matter to you. Your input is critical.

If you feel particularly strongly about any topic/practice/issue in acceptance testing and would like to share a story, technique, pain points, please provide your contact address so that we could talk to you. Otherwise, the survey is anonymous.

Feel free to forward this invite to others.

–                 MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity

–                 Community Forum: http://codeplex.com/unity

–                 Community Extensions: http://codeplex.com/unitycontributions

–                 Remove all obsolete ObjectBuilder code;

–                 Fix the bug: lifetime managers with open generic types;

–                 Fix the bug: RegisterType was overriding RegisterInstance;

–                 Performance improvement when resolving singletons;

–                 Made some internal classes public to make it easier to write certain type of extensions (the ones that need to customize how the dependencies are resolved;

–                 Improved error messages when value resolution fails.

–                 Interception mechanism is not implemented yet; it is on top of our Unity backlog though;

–                 Policy Injection Application Block can still be used if AOP functionality is needed;

–                 No tool support for DI configuration.

 As always, your feedback is invited. Please post your stories, questions, screams on Codeplex. We are listening!

Cheers,
Grigori