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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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Filed under: p&p, EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, events, pnpsummit

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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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, managability, WMI

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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Filed under: EntLib, EntLib Contrib, Enterprise Library

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...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, labs, ease of use, learnability, training

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...

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Filed under: EntLib, Enterprise Library, dependency injection, Unity, new release, user experience

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...

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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