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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...

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Filed under: articles, EntLib, Enterprise Library, dependency injection, Unity

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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Filed under: EntLib, guide, Enterprise Library, learnability

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...

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Filed under: p&p, EntLib, Enterprise Library, Unity, events, PDC, acceptance testing

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

Showcasing patterns & practices’ goodness
13 August 09 10:54 PM

These are some of the events I’ll be presenting at in the next couple of months: Patterns & Practices Conference Ukraine, Kiev, Sep 16, 2009 ( www.pnp.in.ua ) Patterns & Practices Summit Russia, Moscow, Sep 22, 2009 ( www.pnpsummit.ru ) Patterns Read More...

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Filed under: p&p, events

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

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

Taking User Experience Seriously
14 May 09 12:14 AM

As I have mentioned in my previous posts , over the years, Enterprise Library grew large (it now includes 9 application blocks), and arguably more complex than it really needs to be. With v5, we are focusing on enhanced user experience, simplicity, and Read More...

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