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Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:14 PM

SharePoint application guidance is here!

I am WAY behind on my posts with a backlog that includes a MEF Module Loader, MEF Validation sample, MEF container refactoring, PDC, Kaizenconf thoughts, etc. Those have to wait though so I can announce this. patterns & practices just shipped new
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 6:52 PM

Elegant Code Cast on ALT.NET and Microsoft

Last week, David Start of Elegant Code and I got a chance to chat on ALT.NET, Open Source at Microsoft, and MEF. David was a great host who I am sure loved  responded as he through some curve balls at me. Actually it was a provocative discussion
Posted by Glenn Block | 0 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:23 PM

Brian Noyes thoughts on Prism

Brian Noyes from IDesign is one of the great folks helping us in the design and development of Prism. Brian brings a breadth of experience with WPF, and has worked significantly with CAB. He also was the author of the click-once integration pieces in
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:27 PM

The Prism team and how we develop

We've got quite a diverse team for Prism that spans 3 continents. In Redmond Adam Calderon (Interknowlodgy), Arun Subramonian Namboothiri (Infosys), Prasad Paluri (Infosys), Francis Cheung, Julian Dominguez (Southworks), Bob Brumfield, Glenn Block, Blaine
Posted by Glenn Block | 10 Comments
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:37 AM

PageFlow reborn

Many of you noticed that WCSF 2.0 did not ship with PageFlow. Early during the development of WCSF 2.0, we decided to break out the PageFlow application block and recipes into a separately downloadable package. There were several reasons foremost of which
Posted by Glenn Block | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:57 PM

Announcing the patterns and practices Patterns Factory

For some time now I've been working on a project that I've not been able to talk about. Well today, I am finally able to let the cat out of the bag. One of the challenges we've been hearing about from customers is around patterns. We hear they are way
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:20 AM

Prism talk at WPF Bootcamp

Some months ago I delivered a talk on "Prism' at the WPF Bootcamp. The talk gives a good overview of why we are doing this work. At the time of this demo it was very early, before we even started on the RI work. It does give a good idea of where we are
Posted by Glenn Block | 3 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:44 AM

Prism Drop 2

We just shipped our next "Prism" drop on codeplex. Below is a list of some of the significant changes. RegionManagerService no longer exposes AddViewToRegion. Added a sliding region to the shell which displays the watch list. Add to Watchlist functionality
Posted by Glenn Block | 5 Comments
Friday, March 14, 2008 12:39 AM

Entlib 3.1 and Visual Studio 2008 playing well together

Scott just posted on how to get Enterprise Library 3.1 installed with Visual Studio 2008. Check it out here .
Posted by Glenn Block | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:52 PM

'Prism' RI first drop

Today is a historic occasion for the "Prism" team as our first drop of our Reference Implementation (RI) hits codeplex. In this post I will describe to you what the RI is, and what you can expect to see when you download it. Disclaimer: This
Posted by Glenn Block | 21 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:54 AM

'Prism' launches on CodePlex

Some time ago we announced that patterns & practices was going to be delivering a new set of guidance for building composite applications in WPF. A lot has happened since then, least of which is coming up with a new codename "Prism". Just last week
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 4:24 PM

Heading to Boise Code Camp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/o2ma/285230883 A few months ago I heard through the grapevine about plans for a Code Camp in Boise. Next thing you know Jarod has emailed me asking if I would be interested in attending. I am a geek at heart, and always jump
Posted by Glenn Block | 3 Comments
Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:27 PM

WCSF 2.0 Hidden Gem - Creating interface projects

Well not hidden exactly, but subtle. A while ago I requested we add this capability to the WCSF Guidance package, and then I forgot about it. Well today I was playing around with the new GP and to my surprise saw the following. Yes, you can now create
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:02 PM

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 shipped!

As promised, WE'RE LIVE!!!!!   (Image courtesy of hyku via http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/480867085/ ) After a long haul and several posts such as here and here , we're finally out the door with the next version of the Web Client Software Factory!
Posted by Glenn Block | 12 Comments
Monday, February 25, 2008 10:10 PM

Get trained on Web Client Software Factory 2.0

David Platt just announced a new 4 day course on WCSF from April 8th to 11th. Register here. One of the repeated requests I hear from customers working with WCSF and SCSF is "Where can I get training?". Fortunately thanks to David Platt, this
Posted by Glenn Block | 2 Comments
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