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Release of CAB (Composite UI Application Block) !!

And so it releases. This has been a great project and team to work with. I feel privileged to have been able to work with all the folks who made it possible, and to have made such a step forward implementing a close customer connection throughout the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:38 PM by edjez | 9 Comments

Of EntLib 2.0, a local AOP Workshop, and the infamous TDD article

Quickie blog post, just to get jamming: EntLib internals webcast . Yes, EntLib and CAB ship with ObjectBuilder, our common factory & dependency injection infrastructure ++. Answering the FAQs: Yes, we have one. Yes, it's this one. Yes, you can build Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 8:19 PM by edjez | 6 Comments

CAB - October 2005 CTP out!

This is the last community release before our final release - the purpose of this release is to allow you to see the changes we've been doing into the API based on your feedback, to let you start building apps on what is closer to the final drop. There Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 6:00 PM by edjez | 2 Comments
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Backwards Compatibility and Enterprise Library and all patterns & practices assets -What's the deal?

Hello. How are you? Enterprise Library for VS.NET 2005 will have API and configuration changes compared to the latest versions (January/June). So will other blocks and a lot of the rest of the guidance....and you should expect this. er...Is that a roar Read More...
Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 7:18 PM by edjez | 13 Comments

p&p Community Process 2.0 is out!

We have relased the p&p Community Process to 2.0, incorporating feedback we got from customers, partners and field on the 1.0 version. This one includes: - A more realistic relationship between the internal process and externally visible process. Read More...
Posted Friday, July 08, 2005 7:57 PM by edjez | 4 Comments

5 years of guidance groups at Microsoft! - What's your story?

5 years ago Microsoft executives approved the existence of a group focused on guidance - understanding enterprise customer scenarios, creating a dedicated engineering team to producing guidance in the form of code,patterns, frameworks and guides, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:02 PM by edjez | 0 Comments

CAB Released...almost..any...second...now

The release day is the final battle with entropy. It's when the work of months seems to be put at risk and "die the death of a thousand paper cuts"...Xenon's paradox kicks in and every little task breaks up into some smaller tasks and it suddenly feels Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:55 PM by edjez | 2 Comments
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CAB - Code Drop 2 on its way

Hello all - Its been great to see the community interest in CAB. Thanks for your support! (Join us here: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cab ) We have 1000 users before our 2nd community drop!!! As you know we are working hard to have an important release Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:16 PM by edjez | 5 Comments
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How Community Feedback is changing the CAB

I love how the CAB project is working with our community process. Not only does the transaprency give us a chance to ge great input from field, customers, partners and even folks at MS product groups; but it also is a nice forcing function to keep our Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 6:58 PM by edjez | 9 Comments

CAB -Event Broker: Pub-Sub for your components

Yesterday we finished some cleanup refactorings around the EventBroker feature of CAB. I'm happy with the result, because it's conceptually simple, it's easy to use, and it isn't much code, yet it helps a lot. I expect some things to be added before release Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:34 PM by edjez | 14 Comments
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CAB - Composite UI Application Block Ready to Kick Off!

Great piece of news - today in the patterns & practices group we went through our M0 milestone for an exciting asset to assist with Smart Client development. We are calling it the CAB - which stands for Composite UI Application Block. It is not a Read More...
Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 7:20 PM by edjez | 30 Comments

Would you like to "grade" patterns & practices projects based on project execution?

In the Smart Client Program we have been working in a way that involves community in building p&p guidance , especially the application blocks, and lets expert advisors and community members influence the project execution, all the way to allowing Read More...
Posted Friday, April 01, 2005 9:38 AM by edjez | 0 Comments
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My Performance Review Document - Are these the right things to be working on?

I had a conversation with Ward today where he was asking me if it was common for folks in MS to share their goals (what you go against when you do performance appraisal) as a way of communicating to others what they are working on. It led me to think Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:05 PM by edjez | 15 Comments

Hook up to your GPS with .NET

Looking for the killer CAB demo... This week we spent a considerable amount of time working on the CAB - Composite UI Application Block ..aka Smart Client Portal. Part of the value it provides is simplifying how visual components (SmartParts - think WebParts Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:58 PM by edjez | 40 Comments
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VB6 --> VB.NET Guidance

This is not about EntLib and not about Smart Client specifically, but we expose some plans soon around working on VB6 --> .NET guidance focused on Enterprise customers' LOB apps. Part of the challenge with this guide will be finding and keeping to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:35 AM by edjez | 5 Comments
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