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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Patterns & practices goodness – early Christmas
31 October 08 08:02 PM

Earlier this week I’ve announced the releases of Enterprise Library 4.1, Unity 1.2 and Acceptance Test Engineering Guide BETA1. This is not all. Additionally, our group has just shipped: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 1 Distributed Agile Development Read More...

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News: Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance BETA1
31 October 08 06:46 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of the Acceptance Test Engineering guide BETA1. You can download it from http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Common Scenarios Addressed: How to Plan for Acceptance Testing What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run How Read More...

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