Over the last few weeks (in my copious spare time between midnight and six in the morning), I have been updating the Data Access Guidance code base to VS2010B2 in prepration for a few talks I am giving on Data Access patterns. As soon as I am happy with...

For the past several months, I ahve been working with Blaine and Francis on the Web Client Developer Guidance project . This project (when we ship) will provide further guidance for web developers who are creating risch responsive web applications. We...

For the last few months, I have been working with Don on developing guidance for developers who have to deal with data access. We have a CodePlex project over at http://dataguidance.codeplex.com/ up and running. We have been working for a while, but ...

Ajoy has posted that three of the sessions have been made available online at pnp Summit videos online . Since one of the three sessions is one that Grigori and I did about the Acceptance Testing Guide, Driving Development with Acceptance Testing , I...

Blaine and I would like to ask the community to let us know "who is using WCSF?"  We know that WCSF has been fairly successful based on: WCSF has been downloaded a few times (ok, it is really many thousands of times) The discussion forums...

Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF.  There are a lot of people interested in a public statement from patterns & practices about the roadmap for WCSF and future support of WCSF, in addition to...

I took a week off, which was good. I visited family and spent time relaxing and playing video games. (Fallout3 rocks so far!!). I got back this morning to hundreds of emails to go through. After reading almost all of it, there were a few things that happened...

Blaine recently posted that there is a CAB to Prism Comparison Available on Codeplex . This links to Composite Application Guidance for CAB Developers , a download from the CompositeWPF community site. While this document does not help you decide IF ...

I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares , Glenn Block , and a few others around here have been working with a number of folks from the wider .NET community to create a common wrapper for IoC containers. Chris & Glenn created a community...

Last night I posted the Alpha version of Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if Software is Ready for You or Your Customer to the Acceptance Test Engineering CodePlex community site . There are 300+ pages of content. It is still a bit rough...

In past posts, and the recent Unit testing SharePoint post, I have mentioned "brown-bag talks." This has spurred emails from non-native English speakers asking me what in the heck a brown-bag talk is... I am not sure if this is a Microsoft term, or a...

Francis has an article on Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications He also did a brownbag talk on this yesterday, which was very interesting and brought up a few big challenges and ways to work around them. Enjoy

You all might be amazed by the number of emails, messages, and calls I get asking for any of the following: Guidance on SharePoint Requests to add SharePoint Guidance to WCSF Requests to add "Office applications" support to SCSF Well, I can finally help...

I visited the p&p homepage on MSDN today, and saw an announcement for a research report by Nucleus Research about patterns & practices, and what companies that use our guidance think the benefits are. Check out See Real Results With patterns &...

As I have mentioned before in a few posts ( Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance , Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey , and Acceptance Testing Guide Update ), I am working with a team on guidance around acceptance testing . We still have a lot of work...

A while back, I was Dev Lead on the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) when we added the ability to host WPF controls in a Composite Application Block (CAB) application. Since then, the thinking in the WPF space has changed a bit, and p&p decided...

Chris Tavares and I were chatting yesterday morning about an idea Chris had: building a simple, reusable Http Module that gives folks DI scoped to the Application, Session, and Request. Yesterday afternoon, during the p&p Dev team's weekly "Code Kata...

The team has been writing, editing, re-writing, and working hard on putting together a guide on Acceptance Testing. We have made quite a bit of progress, decided on an organization scheme, the basic format of how we want to write each chapter, and have...

This is the sixth post in a series. The other post include: Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application...

We have put together a survey to get a bit more input from the community about Acceptance Testing. If you are at all involved in software development, deployment, or operations acceptance testing proabably impacts you in some way, shape, or form, so you...

Grigori has announced that Enterprise Library 4.0 has shipped . You can get EntLib 4 here . I have been watching this team work hard for the last few months, had a number of conversations with Chris about it, looked at a few problems (note: I did not...

This is the fifth post in a series. The other post include: Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application...

I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut . I have mentioned ScrumBut and Scrummerfall before, but this is a good, quick read with a few good tips. A lot of the concepts carry over to XP as well. I'll add something...

The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release . Before we shipped, I asked the team to audit all the open work items in the queue on the SCSF community site's Issue Tracker and determine what we had fixed. We had used...

The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx . This is a port of the last release (May 2007, if I recall correctly) to VS2008. No new features were added. A few...