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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

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...

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Filed under: EntLib, EntLib Contrib, Enterprise Library, new release

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...

Postedby gmelnik | 4 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, agile, Enterprise Library, plans

Enterprise Library 5.0: Product Backlog prioritization results
16 April 09 12:50 PM

Some two weeks ago, we exposed the preliminary product backlog for Enterprise Library 5.0 and invited the community to vote on the features that matter to them most. And what a response we got! Over 2,600 people viewed the backlog and 981 cast their votes, Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, survey, Enterprise Library, Unity, plans, learnability, user experience

Enterprise Library 5.0 – tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open – your participation is invited!
27 March 09 12:01 AM

EntLib Community! First of all, let me thank all of those who actively took part in providing their ideas and suggestions for the next version of EntLib. There are over 50 comments posted to my original invite and a similar number of emails, all of which Read More...

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Filed under: p&p, EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, new release

Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog (Tentative, non-prioritized)
26 March 09 08:37 PM

Refer to the following list of possible features/stories for Enterprise Library v5.0 and the codes for each feature and estimated costs for their implementation. User Experience UX01: Better error reporting/messaging throughout (M) UX02: Debugging Visualizer Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, plans

Thinking about business rules in Enterprise Library 5.0
26 March 09 03:03 PM

We’ve been exploring the feedback on business rules and how they may apply to EntLib. We see a number of possibly interesting scenarios, but they vary across a number of dimensions. We want to see if we can narrow down the options and what would be useful Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, WF, business rules, business rules engine

Just Released – Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2
18 March 09 05:38 PM

I know it’s easy to get lost in the plethora of announcements and buzz from MIX’09, but today we are releasing a set of hands-on labs for all the application blocks in Enterprise Library. We believe that this valuable release will not go unnoticed by Read More...

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Filed under: intro, EntLib, guide, Enterprise Library, Unity, new release, labs, ease of use, learnability

Enterprise Library FAQs wiki now open
10 February 09 08:13 PM

Greetings, the Enterprise Library user community! Today the patterns & practices EntLib team together with the EntLib support team from Avanade is pleased announce the Enterprise Library Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) wiki . We’ve done a sweep Read More...

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Filed under: intro, EntLib, EntLib Contrib, Enterprise Library, new release, ease of use, learnability

DAAB and Entity Framework: possible marriage?
09 February 09 12:38 PM

First of all, thanks to all people who have provided their inputs to the EntLib5.0 backlog (please keep them coming!). One story seems to be mentioned way too many times. It is related to DAAB integration with Entity Framework. We’ve looked at this a Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 3 Comments    

Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, plans, Entity Framework, DAAB

Enterprise Library 5 – what’s on your wish list?
26 January 09 10:55 PM

We’ve started our planning of the Enterprise Library 5. This is your chance to send us suggestions, comments, screams... These may include ideas for new blocks, new providers for existing blocks, integration with new .NET Framework 4.0 features, improvements Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 53 Comments    

Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, plans

Just Released: Validation Application Block Hands-On Lab
04 January 09 08:35 AM

Here’s a gift for the New Year’s. We have produced a new hands-on lab on validation with Enterprise Library. It contains 13 exercises that walk you through capabilities of the Validation Application Block in various application contexts: The first 11 Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, Validation Block, Enterprise Library, new release, labs

Just Released: Unity Application Block 1.2 for Silverlight
14 December 08 01:01 AM

If you are building rich application experiences in Silverlight , you can now use the power of dependency injection. It was possible to use Unity on Silverlight before, but you had to make some tweaks since Silverlight has some differences from the desktop Read More...

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Filed under: EntLib, extensibility, Enterprise Library, dependency injection, Unity, new release, Silverlight