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dnrTV Does MEF!
Glenn Block recently did a great screen cast on the Managed Extensibility Framework.  Show #130 | 11/26/2008 Glenn Block on MEF, the Managed Extensibility Framework Glenn Block shows you how to use MEF to allow a plugin architecture in your .NET Read More...
Posted 30 November 08 08:56 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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MEF Preview 3 Shipped!
I am pretty excited to see MEF preview 3 ship on codeplex today!  Please check out Glenn's post for all the details... This is a release where we really focused on getting in your feedback...   We are 100% MSPL, we are shipping our own Read More...
Posted 25 November 08 08:55 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines: Supporting Experimentation
Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Framework Design Principles section of Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. I love Read More...
Posted 24 November 08 06:38 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines: Scenario Driven Framework Design
Ccontinuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This annotation is found in Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. Joe and Chris nail the core things. JOE DUFFY Read More...
Posted 17 November 08 06:35 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.*
I need your feedback... I am chatting with some co-workers about the perception of in the .NET Community of what the System.* and Microsoft.* namespaces mean.    So I had the crazy idea of just asking you!   For this exercise, Read More...
Posted 16 November 08 07:04 by BradA | 82 Comments   
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Need Windows Mobile Phone Recommendation
I am ready to replace my several year old Verizon XV6700… The 2 nd replacement battery is not keeping me through the day any more, it is way too heavy and my colleagues pick on my for using such old technology ;-) I have a pretty good deal with Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 09:02 by BradA | 45 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines: Testable Frameworks
I thought I do a weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. The first is around writing testable frameworks it is found in Chapter 1: Introduction. Phil brings his real world experience Read More...
Posted 10 November 08 10:33 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Demo
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new feature of .NET 4 (and will work on 3.5 as well) that makes it significantly easier to extend applications and generally support application composition patterns.  What does that really mean?  Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 07:10 by BradA | 7 Comments   
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Book Plug: The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition)
At PDC2008, we shipped the third edition of the C# Language specification ...  If you are a language-lawyer type or just like to know exactly how the latest version of the language works, this book is for you!  In this addition, we tried something Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 11:55 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Cohesion And Coupling
On the plane ride back from the PDC, I had a chance to read Jeremy Miller's excellent article in the October issue of MSDN magazine.    Cohesion And Coupling   While there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in here, Jeremy does a great job Read More...
Posted 04 November 08 06:46 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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Book Plug: Silverlight 2 Unleashed
I was very honored when Laurent Bugnion asked me to write the foreword for Silverlight 2 Unleashed .  Laurent has long been a very active member of the Silverlight (and general .NET) community.    He is plugged in and deeply understands Read More...
Posted 03 November 08 01:42 by BradA | 7 Comments   
Best Practices for Wrapping Native Code
At our talk on Framework Design Guidelines at the PDC , Krzysztof and I were asked about resources for wrapping a native code library in a nice managed code framework.  This is an extremely common pattern.  Organizations frequently have large Read More...
Posted 03 November 08 12:44 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (video)
Krzysztof Cwalina and I had a chance to sit down and chat with informIT just before the PDC to talk about how the design guidelines have evolved over the last 10 years.    The latest version of the guidelines have just been published as Read More...
Posted 02 November 08 04:06 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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