I would like to thank all who attended WIN406 – Dependency Injection with Enterprise Library 4.1 . I hope your time in the session was worth the investment. If I’ve been successful, you already downloaded Unity and can’t wait to use it on your current...

Following my last post around Unity and PIAB , and as already mentioned, PIAB policies have to be explicitly applied to a Unity Container. But what about if you want to apply always the PIAB policies to your container? Easy, apply an extension that does...

Here’s a common question that normally arises when you start to use the new Unity 1.2 interception with PIAB. Common Facts: You are using Unity 1.2 You added the new Microsoft.Practices.Unity.InterceptionExtension.Interception to Unity You configured...

The P&P team just release a bunch of changes on EntLib 4 and Unity. Finally, PIAB is now integrated with Unity! Check out at: Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008 Unity Application Block 1.2 - October 2008 Soon, I’ll try to post some impressions...

Sergey Solyanik left Google and is back to Microsoft. His post on the subject is just... hum.. pragmatic ! Here are my favorite parts of the post: (bold format is my responsibility) (...) "First, I love multiple aspects of the software development...

Unity is out. Check out the official release page at msdn . I'm testing the final bits and in the next few days I'll post my thoughts about it... stay tuned!

This blog is now cross posting some content on MSDN ....

For those who attended DEV09 and asked me the video source: Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed And for those who didn't understand why the video at the beginning of the session.. well.. it was just a teaser so I could get the audience's attention...

According to Grigori , the RTM version of Unity has been postponed to April 7, rather than March 15 (Well.. i guess everybody was already noticing that there wasn't any release at March 15, right?) Meanwhile, the last weekly drop is still the March 12...

Miguel, a GASP fellow, finally migrated his blog to the Gasp website . Please welcome Miguel and check his feed !

WOW Now we're talking!

It's public ! Unity 1.0 RTM : 15th March (Next day to Portuguese Techdays Unity Demo: http://www.techdays.pt/session/2008/dev09.aspx ) EntLib 4 CTP : 15th March (Application blocks integration with Unity still not provided, but Object Builder 2.0 will...

Finally, the so expected EntLib Dependency Injection implementation is out . Dependency Injection is, IMHO, the most important design pattern on extensible software design. But unfortunately, Enterprise Library previously lacked the support of a lightweight...

Something I normally get annoyed when reviewing others code is when I have to scroll horizontally. Even when activating "Wrap", code doesn't look "sharp" and clear. A not well known feature of Visual Studio (2002/3/5/8) is the ability to add a Guide Line...

This post saved my day .

Paulo Morgado , a GASP fellow, is presenting a Webcast tomorrow about Web Client Software Factory. This webcast is provided by geekSpeak . Paulo is known by his expertise in this kind of factories, so I'm sure this is a must attend webcast!

This was annoying me: Log Name: Application Source: usbperf Date: 09-01-2008 10:54:18 Event ID: 2004 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: XXX Description: Usbperf data collection failed. Collect function called with usupported...

Just to mention that VS 2008 completely supports a non-intrusive-side-by-side installation with VS 2003. So, if you still want to evaluate while you don't take the migration path, this is a possible scenario. Although, don't forget that VS 2008 can...

It's now official . And what a better day to born a revolution! (private joke, sorry!). Visual Studio 2008 can now be downloaded from Msdn. From my point of view, .Net Framework 3.5 is one of the major revolutions since the .Net era . I remember that...

It's official : OSI approved Ms-Pl and Ms-Rl , after Microsoft submitted those on August 10th. No more doubts! Code released under Ms-Pl or Ms-Ri are finally considered as adhering to the OSD . These are great news. In my point of view, this is the...

The VS Core team developed a great power toy for Visual Studio that provides a tree view of C#/VB.NET source code. Source Code Outliner is available at Codeplex . Give a look...

Mr. Bill just sent us a reminder, and I couldn't miss it! This year, MSN is sponsoring Live Earth and concerts from all over the world are being broadcasted during 24 hours , from seven continents with more than 150 world top bands! Being a little...

This is kind of old, but while navigating in the Windows Client video tutorials, I found a nice video from Lee Brimelow, demonstrating a WPF Application controlled by 3 analog sensors . It worths the view... If you think this is fun, just get a look to...

Wow, the world is really moving faster! In 2 weeks, great news are emerging: WinFx .Net Framework 3.5 Omri unveils the new features of .Net 3.5 , and beta 1 is launched! Between some awesome features, Durable Services is the one which really called my...

Matthew Emma was a "Linux Warrior" and now performs at the LCAIT Test Team @ Readmond . His testimonial really deserves a reading...