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Enterprise Library 5.0 preview video posted
07 December 09 08:46 PM
The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints to fast forward to a specific topic): the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved user Read More...
Powered by EntLib
13 November 09 05:30 AM
When speaking about or demoing EntLib, I often get asked which Microsoft products Enterprise Library is used in. There are several dozen internal Microsoft projects (that we know of) that take advantage of Enterprise Library. However, many people are Read More...
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Dependency Injection pattern in APIs
12 November 09 05:44 PM
My colleague and friend Chris Tavares, who is the Dev Lead on Enterprise Library and Unity, published an insightful article in MSDN magazine on the usage of DI in APIs, which I highly recommend. It is based on our recent experience of doing architectural Read More...
Zen and the Art of Managing Crosscutting Concerns – EntLib Dev Guide Preview
12 November 09 05:44 PM
A new public preview release is now available on Codeplex . It now includes the following chapters, revised and updated for V5.0: Chapter 1 – Intro. Meet the Librarian Chapter 2 – Much ADO about Data Access Chapter 3 – Error Management Made Exceptionally Read More...
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Grigori at PDC
11 November 09 06:54 AM
I’ll be at PDC2009 in LA next week. I’ll be happy to meet with EntLib and Unity users as well as critics, to discuss new features of EntLib 5.0, preview the new config experience and also solicit suggestions for post v5 work. If you’d like to discuss Read More...
p&p Summit 2009: What’s coming in Enterprise Library 5.0
16 October 09 07:51 AM
Yesterday Bob Brumfield and I gave a talk on EntLib5.0 at p&p summit in Redmond . We’ve discussed the underlying architectural refactoring and previewed the following improvements: Data accessors that will help you easily consume sproc results when Read More...
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Removing WMI support from Enterprise Library
13 October 09 02:00 PM
In our quest to simplify EntLib’s codebase, we are considering removing WMI2 support in v5. This is based on recommendation by our Advisory board, as well as lack of usage and interest from the user community and the high development complexity to maintain Read More...
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Enterprise Library reaches 2 million downloads!
08 September 09 05:49 PM
Enterprise Library has a broad reach and adoption. No wonder, since it embodies many of the proven .NET development practices and ships with the code, tests and hands-on labs – lots to reuse and lots to learn from. The EntLib community has welcomed more Read More...
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EntLib/Unity Trainers
14 August 09 04:50 PM
If you are offering industrial or academic courses or workshops that use Enterprise Library or Unity, I hope you are already taking advantage of our updated Hands-On Labs . I would like to know what else we could do to better support you and the learners. Read More...
Unity 2.0 container update
16 July 09 12:18 PM
Our latest work on Unity 2.0 is available on Codeplex (see change set 28516 ). This is the first work we’ve done on Unity as part of the EntLib5.0 effort . Major changes in this drop include: ObjectBuilder2 DLL is now gone. The code is now completely Read More...
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...
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...
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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EntLibContrib – May 2009 Release and future plans
05 May 09 05:02 PM
Two of our community champions François Tanguay and Stephen Phillips just pushed out a new release of EntLibContrib . This is the final round-up of all of the user contributions built around the Enterprise Library v3.1 core. They are now working on the Read More...
Enterprise Library 5.0 … and we’re off!
20 April 09 11:56 AM
We have officially started our development work on EntLib5.0. Earlier I’ve shared our product backlog , which was largely driven by you, the community. Our initial plan is to ship in early 2010. If you want to stay tuned with what we’re doing, the best Read More...
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