The CodePlex team will be well represented (in fact you might get sick of us) at the patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, WA - October 9-12, 2006 . We will be presenting or co-presenting the following sessions: Application Frameworks in IT - Jonathan Wanagel Dependency Injection Architecture ...

I will be in Boston for TechEd in June to present a talk about design patterns and (IMO) how best to use them in your everyday development. In the past I have found design patterns talks less than inspiring. They tend to be just a presentation of a catalog. The approach that I take this time is to talk...

Over 13 months ago (April 4, 2005 in fact) I posted something on my blog that I was leaving the patterns & practices team. Since that time we assembled a team of people and in turn built a community site for developers to innovate and participate in collaborative development projects. The web-site...

I will be in Los Angeles next week (September 13-16, 2005). On Wednesday (September 14) and Thursday (September 15) I will be in the Product Pavilion at the GotDotNet station. I don't have specific times in which I will be there but if you let me know a time I will be sure to be there. If you get...

I have released V0.5. You can get it here . Due to the feedback I received from Scott Densmore this new version has support for files contained in folders within a project and a number of other bugs he and Brian Button found when converting the tests in Enterprise Library. The other feature that was...

I was talking with Scott Densmore and Brian Button who are busy converting the tests in Enterprise Library to use Visual Studio 2005 Team System and they mentioned that they would like to have the converter convert all the files that are contained in a project. The early versions worked on single files...

There is a new version (0.3) of the converter in the GotDotNet workspace. Click here to download. This version adds support for VB.NET and fixes a few bugs that I discovered as I did more extensive acceptance testing. I have done much more acceptance testing with C# conversion because I have a lot...

In addition to GotDotNet workspaces V2 I have been busy on the testing front. A number of customers have started looking at the new testing tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System. One of the first questions that comes to mind is what am I going to do with the tests I’ve written in NUnit. Well, I have...

I will be in Orlando next week (June 6-10, 2005). I have been working on a number of things, blogging not being one of them, but I am sure given my lack of posts you already know this. I would like to discuss with you what features you would like to see in the next version of the GotDotNet workspaces...

As some of you may already know, I have decided to leave the patterns & practices team. I have been working with the team as a consultant and as an employee for 2 1/2 years. I have enjoyed my tenure with the group. I was able to work with great people like David Trowbridge, Ward Cunningham, and my...

It's been awhile but I have been pretty busy. I know both of these were delivered yesterday (28 January 2005) but I wanted to alert you to two new items from the patterns & practices team if you have not already heard. The first one is Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library is a collection of seven...

Would you like to work on a development team that includes people like Ward Cunningham, David Trowbridge, Peter Provost , Scott Densmore , Sandy Khaund , to name a few? We just opened two new positions in the patterns & practices development team. The first position is for a Software Development...

Well summer vacation is over and it's back to work. I have a number of things which I have been working on over the past few months. The biggest news is the public announcement of Enterprise Library for patterns & practices. I encourage you to read the following blogs from some of the developers...

“Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance focusing on testing .NET application blocks. The guide's TOC and two draft chapters have been made available so its possible for others to provide feedback. To view the draft chapters, please download them from...