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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:24 AM

Where is WCSF headed?

Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF.  There are a lot of people interested in a public statement from patterns & practices about the roadmap for WCSF and future support of WCSF, in addition to
Posted by mpuleio | 0 Comments
Monday, October 13, 2008 10:03 AM

Finally, a common Service Locator

I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares , Glenn Block , and a few others around here have been working with a number of folks from the wider .NET community to create a common wrapper for IoC containers. Chris & Glenn created a community
Posted by mpuleio | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:38 PM

Guidance on SharePoint

You all might be amazed by the number of emails, messages, and calls I get asking for any of the following: Guidance on SharePoint Requests to add SharePoint Guidance to WCSF Requests to add "Office applications" support to SCSF Well, I can finally help
Posted by mpuleio | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:38 PM

See Real Results With patterns & practices

I visited the p&p homepage on MSDN today, and saw an announcement for a research report by Nucleus Research about patterns & practices, and what companies that use our guidance think the benefits are. Check out See Real Results With patterns &
Posted by mpuleio | 0 Comments
Monday, August 04, 2008 10:16 AM

Acceptance Testing Guide Community Preview 2 Available!

As I have mentioned before in a few posts ( Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance , Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey , and Acceptance Testing Guide Update ), I am working with a team on guidance around acceptance testing . We still have a lot of work
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:26 AM

Composite Application Guidance for WPF Shipped!

A while back, I was Dev Lead on the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) when we added the ability to host WPF controls in a Composite Application Block (CAB) application. Since then, the thinking in the WPF space has changed a bit, and p&p decided
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:32 PM

Proof of Concept: a simple DI solution for ASP.NET WebForms

Chris Tavares and I were chatting yesterday morning about an idea Chris had: building a simple, reusable Http Module that gives folks DI scoped to the Application, Session, and Request. Yesterday afternoon, during the p&p Dev team's weekly "Code Kata"
Posted by mpuleio | 3 Comments
Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:52 AM

Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey

We have put together a survey to get a bit more input from the community about Acceptance Testing. If you are at all involved in software development, deployment, or operations acceptance testing proabably impacts you in some way, shape, or form, so you
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:44 PM

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Actually Adding Unity

This is the fifth post in a series. The other post include: Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Monday, April 28, 2008 2:27 PM

We really do listen to community feedback

The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release . Before we shipped, I asked the team to audit all the open work items in the queue on the SCSF community site's Issue Tracker and determine what we had fixed. We had used
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 5:25 PM

Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 Release is available on MSDN

The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx . This is a port of the last release (May 2007, if I recall correctly) to VS2008. No new features were added. A few
Posted by mpuleio | 5 Comments
Monday, April 21, 2008 2:09 PM

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release Candidate Available

Friday, I posted we had a solid Beta. Today, I am letting you know that SCSF now has a Release Candidate (RC) . The bug that appeared Friday is, we think, fixed. We actually published the RC before we completed any internal testing, so the customer who
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 3:34 PM

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Beta Available

The SCSF April 2008 Beta Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available. We fixed all the known issues from the Alpha. It is solid , and may actually be a release candidate, rather than a beta. Enjoy.
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 2:48 PM

Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance

As I mentioned before ( Acceptance Testing Guidance , Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project ), I am working on guidance around acceptance testing with Grigori . We now have alive CodePlex site that we can work from: patterns & practices:
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:16 PM

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Available

For the past month or so, Blaine and I have been overseeing the development of the April release of the Smart Client Software Factory. This release is being done mostly by a team of vendors, freeing Blaine to run Prism and I to run the Acceptance Testing
Posted by mpuleio | 4 Comments
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