What is Enterprise Library team currently up to?

gmelnik — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:00 GMT

After shipping Enterprise Library v4.1, the team is focusing on the ease-of-use and learnability aspects of both EntLib and Unity. Our top stories of the current backlog include the following:

Unity for Silverlight [Done - 12/14/2008]
Comprehensive Enterprise Library FAQs [Done - 2/10/2009]
Validation Block Hands-on Lab [Done - 1/3/2009]
Interception Hands-on Lab [Done - 3/18/2009]
Unity Extensibility documentation [In Dev]
New video on Unity (level 200)
New video on Unity Extensibility (level 400)
Customer satisfaction survey analysis [Done]

These are all things we plan on doing prior to starting Enterprise Library v5 research and planning work early next year.

Just Released: Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2

gmelnik — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:17:00 GMT

From the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, I am writing this message in between many exciting PDC sessions and conversations with customers of Enterprise Library and other p&p assets.

Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the twin release of Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2.

What’s New in Enterprise Library v4.1?

This release of Enterprise Library is a service release that includes the following:

– Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection Application Block with the Unity Application Block;

– Performance improvements;

– Usability improvements to the configuration tool;

– Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 support;

– Bug fixes.

For the detailed list of all changes, see About This Release of Enterprise Library.

What’s New in Unity v1.2?

− Added an interception mechanism (extension);

− Added two instance interceptors (TransparentProxyInterceptor, InterfaceInterceptor) and one type interceptor (VirtualMethodInterceptor);

− Improved support for generics;

− Added support for arrays;

− Registered names are now available as an ObjectBuilder policy so that you can do a ResolveAll from within the strategy chain. The container automatically registers itself with itself;

− Added PerThreadLifeTimeManager;

− Bug fixes;

− Performance improvements.

How to Get Started?

If you are new to Enterprise Library:

− read the Introduction to the Enterprise Library;

− download, compile, and run the QuickStart samples —study the code;

− read through the related QuickStart Walkthroughs and “Key Scenarios” sections of the documentation;

− practice the Hands-On Labs;

− review the source and unit tests for deeper understanding;

− view webcasts on Enterprise Library and Unity, review demo code.

If you already know and love the Enterprise Library:

− check out the change log for this release;

− upgrade to V4.1—no code change is required—simply update the references to the corresponding application block assemblies and to the common assemblies;

− download the updated QuickStarts and run through the Unity-integrated examples to get the flavor of new dependency injection style of using the Enterprise Library;

− review the documentation on how to use interception with Unity;

− view webcasts on Enterprise Library and Unity, review demo code.

Happy Coding!

Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond : interception

What is Enterprise Library team currently up to?

Just Released: Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2