Our communities have a new, big home; so update your bookmarks and favorites: http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient The GotDotNet hosted sites (CAB, SCSF, MCSF, Updater, Offline) are all going to be moved to this CodePlex, including all the existing forum...

New CTP version of Enterprise Library, new community web site: http://www.codeplex.com/entlib December 2006 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0. Includes: A partial implementation of the Validation Application Block The Application Block Software Factory Visual...

Via Dragos Manolescu : In the patterns & practices (p&p) group at Microsoft we have been using software patterns for several years. I'm working with a couple of colleagues on gauging how the folks employing the guidance coming out of p&p ...

Mario Szpuszta from Microsoft Austria has written a fantastic whitepaper that captures his experiences in the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank with CAB and the Smart Client Software Factory. The paper has some very interesting sections that cover practical aspects...

The new drop this week includes (much) improved recipes. one of the coolest features that we included is a "preview" pane, to get a sense of what the code will look like after the recipe runs: The two treeviews on the right, show the code structure that...