Just about a month and a half ago I wrote a blog post announcing the beta release of Wasabi – a new Autoscaling Application Block. Since then we’ve got a lot of positive feedback from customers and internal partners, some of who have made decisions to adopt it even before we shipped the final...

Unity has become a popular DI container with a solid base of users (last time I checked, there were 300K+ cumulative downloads of the Unity container through all channels – MSDN, Codeplex, and NuGet). Unity runs in the heart of Microsoft Exchange and Bing and many other systems. For all of you Unity...

When I give an overview of the Enterprise Library, I often refer to an ecosystem of the core application blocks built by the Microsoft patterns & practices team, components tailored by the customers for their own needs as well as those produced and shared by the community. Extensibility has been...

In the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (codenamed “WASABi”) we have support for scale groups . These are for convenience when there are many rules that target multiple roles. With scale groups we can reduce the number of autoscaling rules we must create and manage. In defining constraint...

Just in time for the //Build/ Conference , we have released a preview of the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) . It’s available via NuGet . There are two packages – one with binaries and one containing the source. This preview includes a sample application for hosting the block and...

There are two versions of this post. If you are not interested in various approaches we have evaluated, please read the short version and cast your vote. Short version Please take a look at these two conditionals which are meant to trigger scaling actions. Style 1 – “fluenty” XML < when > <...

As I have previously announced , my team has been heads-down working on the new Windows Azure Integration Pack for Enterprise Library . Autoscaling came as one of the top-ranked stories for the pack (it is a frequently requested feature from the product group and it gathered a lot of votes on our backlog...

After several weeks exploring the Azure development space and consulting with the field and internal product groups, we’ve identified several opportunities for the Windows Azure Integration Pack for Microsoft Enterprise Library. They are posted as stories via Uservoice . They are grouped in the following...

We have started exploration and experimentation on a new project -- Windows Azure Integration Pack for Enterprise Library. Our product vision is: For .NET developers, architects, testers, and IT/Pros building, extending and maintaining LOB applications powered by Windows Azure-hosted or...

For years I’ve been trying hard to fight the perception of Enterprise Library as a monolith. Yes, there’s a lot of functionality baked in EntLib. However, you don’t have to use it all. In the early versions (1.0 – 4.1) you could always delete the binaries you didn’t care about after install. In v5.0...

Today we are releasing the Silverlight Integration Pack for the popular Microsoft Enterprise Library application blocks. This release provides guidance and reusable components designed to encapsulate recommended practices which facilitate consistency, ease of use, integration, and extensibility. It also...

Original blog post title: Deleting code is one of my favorite things This blog post is in response to a number of inquiries on the future of certain Enterprise Library features ( this one , for example) and is meant to expose our thinking on code retirement/deprecation. Let me start by saying that we...

Third drop of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack is now available on Codeplex. What’s in the drop? - Validation Application Block for Silverlight ( details , video1 , demo1 , video2 , demo2 ) - Caching Application Block for Silverlight with support for: -- in-memory cache...

Just a quick note: Extensibility Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library have been updated to include guidance and exercises on building custom application blocks – both runtime and design-time pieces. The full set of labs is on MSDN now. A friendly reminder, if you build an extension to EntLib that others...

Earlier this week, we published a code drop of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack . It contains: port of the Validation Application Block new pieces of the infrastructure to support XAML-based configuration async configuration loading Note there is also a conversion tool to facilitate...

Extensibility has always been one of the key design principles for Enterprise Library. Today, there are 3 ways how EntLib can be extended and customized: 1) Write pluggable custom providers . Each application block has extension points which you can leverage. With providers, functionality that is not...

Greetings, Silverlight LOB developers! We’ve published our preliminary backlog for the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack , based on numerous discussions and user feedback . It also includes stories for the update of Unity 2.0 for Silverlight . You can find it at http://EntLibSL.mswish...

SQL Configuration Source for Enterprise Library 5.0 is now available. It allows storing configuration information in a database. It’s strengthened with encryption and change monitoring. We are shipping this as source code here: http://entlib.codeplex.com/releases/view/56812 The project is set up to build...

As we are spiking on the EntLib Silverlight Integration Pack, we can use some feedback on the validation story. With the recent addition of DataAnnotations and RIA Services to the framework stack, we would like to avoid adding confusion to the Silverlight platform by introducing yet another validation...

After the release of Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 in April 2010, our team focused on getting the hands-on labs out and the new Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library , including versions localized to Russian (already out) and now working on Japanese, Chinese and Spanish editions as well as a...

Update 12/09/2010: Thank you all who posted their thoughts in response to this blog and in the forums. A preliminary backlog of stories is now posted and available for voting. http://EntLibSL.mswish.net --- Silverlight, originated as a rich media platform, is emerging as a business application...

Lots of excitement in the area of Enterprise Library guidance! As part of the Enterprise Library 5.0, we took on a mission to considerably improve the learning curve and create a pragmatic and approachable primer on EntLib! We hope with this release we’ve accomplished that goal. This guide helps you...

From the TechEd floor… To complement our set of learning resources for Enterprise Library ( reference docs , hands-on labs , videos ), I’ve just uploaded the most recent version of the Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library to Codeplex. It includes all chapters and represents a...

In the continued commitment to our users - .NET enterprise developers, we are releasing a fully updated set of hands-on labs today. These are built by developers for developers! The set includes exercises for all application blocks as well as Unity, Interception and complex configuration scenarios. Once...

The following are upcoming events where the new Enterprise Library 5.0 will be presented at. There you’ll be to meet with the patterns & practices team members, discuss other p&p projects, learn about our future plans, share your experiences : Slovenia : NT Konferenca, Portorož, May 24-27, 2010...