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If you're in the Copenhagen or Århus area in the beginning of March, you may have the opportunity of going to the local Mød Microsoft ( Meet Microsoft ) event, where I'll be delivering a day-long seminar on Applied Architecture with Enterprise Library...

In some cases, a Component or Control may have the need to contain a read-only collection of complex objects. Additionally, although you don't want to enable a developer to change the collection itself at design time, you still want to make it possible...

When writing complex components or controls, it is sometimes necessary to implement custom CodeDOM serialization of the control. If the code serialization logic is complex, it would be nice if it was possible to unit test this logic. It's not quite as...

One of the inherent problems of control development is that it doesn't lend itself easily to unit testing. After all, you are developing a user interface, and it's necessary to validate that it looks as expected. While that's true, more complex control...

Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 has finally been released! This new release contains a lot of breaking changes from the former version; there are many good reasons for this, such as new features of .NET 2.0 which supercede some of the features of Enterprise...

If you are unit testing a class which may raise an event, it will be appropriate to test that the event is raised when appropriate. Before .NET 2.0, you had to attach an event handler to an instance of the class to test the event, but now you can do it...

A new version of the Service Locator Enterprise Application Block is now available. At version 1.1, not much is new: I've added a method which allows a developer to clear all injected services from the InjectionServiceProvider. The idea is that, in unit...