June 2009 - Posts

Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, volume 1 BETA2 release
30 June 09 06:30 PM

Today I am pleased to announce the release of the beta2 of the first volume of our Acceptance Test Engineering Guide . We are getting closer to “done”. As it became apparent that the primary reader personas for each part in the original guide (that was Read More...

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Filed under: intro, guide, acceptance tests, software acceptance, readiness assessment, new release, acceptance testing

Enterprise Library 5.0: Architectural refactoring complete
25 June 09 04:19 PM

The highest priority story in the EntLib5 backlog is ARC01: Architectural refactoring, which includes the use of a dependency injection container for wiring your EntLib objects instead of the one-off ObjectBuilder factories and DI container independence Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, extensibility, Enterprise Library, Unity, ease of use

Video on what’s coming in EntLib 5.0
25 June 09 04:01 PM

In this channel9 video, Chris and I give a 10,000 ft view on what’s coming in EntLib5.0. For details, consult our product backlog . Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, talks, webcasts, videos, plans, user experience

Thoughts on improving performance of the Logging Application Block
19 June 09 11:16 AM

EntLib5 team is working on improving performance of the logging block (story LAB02 in our product backlog ).  We’ve identified that message formatting in particular takes substantial amount of time based on our own performance tests and customer Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, performance, LAB, logging