Browse by Tags

• acceptance testing
• agile
• dependency injection
• Enterprise Library
• EntLib Contrib
• events
• extensibility
• GAT
• GAX
• intro
• microsoft
• new release
• Orcas
• PDC
• plans
• pnpsummit
• team development
• Unity
• Validation Block
• VS2008
• workshop

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...

Postedby gmelnik | 0 Comments    

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...

Postedby gmelnik | 0 Comments    

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

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 – 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...

Postedby gmelnik | 20 Comments    

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

Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 released!
16 May 08 03:16 PM

Friends, I am extremely excited to announce the release of the Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008. Congratulations to the team ! Quick Links: – MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/entlib – Community Forum: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119312 Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 14 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, EntLib Contrib, VS2008, Validation Block, Enterprise Library, Unity

Unity Extensibility Workshop
29 January 08 12:13 PM

Microsoft Main Campus (Building 99) February 18-19, 2008 Redmond, WA Description Unity is Microsoft’s lightweight, extensible dependency injection container. Microsoft patterns & practices will host Unity Extensibility Workshop to walk the participants Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 5 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, EntLib Contrib, extensibility, Enterprise Library, Unity, events, workshop

Who are we ? - introducing EntLib 4.0 and Unity Team
22 January 08 11:14 PM

In my previous posting, I’ve acknowleged everybody who worked on EntLib 1.0-3.1. I should have mentioned the technical experts who participate in our advisories and help with their critiques and suggestions. Many thanks to them too! And now … on to the Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 6 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, team development, Enterprise Library, Unity

EntLib downloads exceed one million!
22 January 08 10:42 PM

Friends, Typically I check the download stats for EntLib about once a month. Back in Dec I knew we were on the path to 1 mln downloads but today I am pleased to announce to the EntLib users’ community that now we have actually exceeded 1mln downloads! Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 1 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, Enterprise Library

Making Dependency Injection Simpler in EntLib 4
03 December 07 07:51 PM

The benefits of modular design with cohesive components that have little or no coupling to the rest of the software system are commonly recognized today. Dependency injection is a mechanism that facilitates such aggressive decoupling and independence Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 14 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, extensibility, Enterprise Library, dependency injection

Planning the next release of Enterprise Library
24 August 07 02:47 PM

We, at patterns & practices, are planning a release of Enterprise Library for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). It will happen at around the same time Visual Studio 2008 is out (Feb 2008 as per our roadmap ). At a minimum, you can expect the current functionality Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 8 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, EntLib, Orcas, VS2008, extensibility

intro
02 July 07 10:24 PM

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I've posted an entry on TDD earlier today and completely forgot to introduce myself. Let me do it properly now.... I am Grigori Melnik, a Senior Technical Product Planner with Microsoft patterns & practices . My current Read More...

Postedby gmelnik | 1 Comments    

Filed under: p&p, microsoft, intro, GAX, EntLib, GAT