OK, I know the sun has already set on February in some parts of the world, but over here it's still well and truly the 28th so I have no regrets in announcing the availability of the February 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 . (If only I could say the...

A lot has been written about the constantly evolving disciplines of development, test and project management. As software engineering matures and moves towards more agile approaches, many people have shared their thinking and experiences on how to do...

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Enterprise Library 3.0, we have one last surprise in store: a new application block! The Policy Injection Application Block got off to a late start, but we're making good progress now and...

One very cool new feature which will debut in the next (and final) CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 is something we call "Environmental Overrides". In short this feature makes it much easier to manage configuration files for applications that are deployed...

There have been a few great posts in the last couple of weeks about building software factories. Jezz Santos and Edward Bakker have been posting a series of articles titled Factories 201 to take people beyond the basics. To date, they have posted on the...

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of DOS, the people all used 8.3 filenames for their programs, documents and source files. The subjects got used to files like LETTER.DOC, MSCDEX.EXE and VBRUN200.DLL. Nobody ever knew whether there was any limit to the...