The second CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 is now available to download on our CodePlex community site ! Full details on this release are in the included release notes, but here are a few highlights: Validation Application Block (also see my previous post...

We're making great progress with the Validation Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0, and one of the last remaining tasks is to make sure we include a compelling set of validators with the block. While it's very easy to build your own validator...

Our team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the January 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0. This new preview release will be available on our community site any day now, but in the meantime I wanted to tease you a bit by showing you a few...

Via Don : the December 2006 release of the Web Service Software Factory is now available! This is a major new release that supports building services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Don (ever so eloquently) lists his highlights as: ...

Our friends over at BT recently released a beta of the Web21C SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio . This SDK consists of a bunch of cool .NET APIs that provide access to BT services such as SMS, presence and voice calls. But if that's not enough, they've...

Alas, the game of Blog-Tag has finally found me (thanks Jezz and Olaf !). Now that I'm tagged, I need to reveal five things about me that most people don't know, and then tag five more people. So here goes: I was born in Woden Valley Hospital in Canberra...

Soma , our division's VP, has just announced on his blog that the first four patterns & practices software factories have reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads. If you haven't checked out the Web Service Software Factory , Web Client Software...

One complaint that we've heard fairly frequently is that the p&p team isn't transparent enough on what we're working on, when new releases will be available, and what we're not currently working on. Not having this information can result in teams...

A few months ago, Peter and Ed took the Channel 9 audience through a guided tour of our shiny new work environment. Our team does have (as far as I know) the coolest work environment on the Redmond campus, so hopefully it was an interesting video - but...