Does the patterns & practices client team listen to the community? It is easy for someone in our position to fall into the "ivory tower" trap and not listen to customers. Within patterns & practices we work hard at listening to the community when...

As Mike announced in his blog yesterday, we released an updated version of the Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 . As previously discussed in my blog , this release provides: Support for Visual Studio 2008. Fixes for bugs identified...

In response to customer requests, we just published the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha release to CodePlex. As I mentioned in a previous blog we are close to finishing this release. The current plan is to go out with EntLib 3.1 support...

We just posted the Web Client Assets (formerly known as Bundles) for both .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 on the download center. You can get links to the downloads from the Web Client Factory Home Page or from the Bundles Pages on CodePlex. If you are not familiar...

Earlier today I provided a link to JD's blog on a presentation from Stephen Covey . I have known JD for over 5 years now and worked closely with him on multiple projects for almost 2 years. During this time, I remember that JD read lots of books on lots...

JD Meier recently posted a blog on Stephen Covey's presentation to Microsoft. The blog post includes: Lighthouse principles Values and principles Personal and family mission statement and why One of my favorites Urgent but not important Office politics...

Mike Puleio recently posted blog entries on how to convert Composite Web Application Block (CWAB) to use Unity. Here are the links to the blog posts: - First post - Second post If this is something you are interested in, check it out. Unity simplifies...