Simplifying patterns & practices

Back in February, I blogged about our plans to update GAT/GAX and the Smart Client, Web Client, and Web Service Software Factories (hereafter referred to as the “goods”) to Visual Studio 2010 within 30 days of its release. Now that beta 2...

Since the initial release of Prism in June 2008, many developers have successfully used it to build flexible, modular applications for WPF or Silverlight (and sometimes both at the same time!). We updated Prism in October last year so that it could be...

Context The patterns & practices team is in the process of updating GAX, GAT, and 3 software factories (Smart Client, Web Client, and Web Service) to work with Visual Studio 2010. We intend to release all of these within 30 days of the VS 2010...

...the team blog of the patterns & practices team. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the patterns & practices team, let’s start with a brief introduction. We are a small team in Developer Division (fondly known as DevDiv) and our mission...

If you have used any of the software factories from patterns & practices and are interested in using them in Visual Studio 2010, this post is for you. Get the latest releases of the following projects: Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) 2010...

As we wrap up the second half of 2009, we in the p&p team wanted to share with you an update on our deliverables; as well as what is our backlog for the first half of 2010. One bit of housekeeping before I jump into the good stuff—a number of you...

Recently, as part of the 15 th anniversary of the GoF book, I met with Larry O’Brien of InformIT to talk about the mission of patterns & practices at Microsoft; about our customers, and the specific areas that we focus on to help them be even more...