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Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:16 AM

Data Access Guidance Drops available

For the last few months, I have been working with Don on developing guidance for developers who have to deal with data access. We have a CodePlex project over at http://dataguidance.codeplex.com/ up and running. We have been working for a while, but (unlike
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:37 AM

If you missed the patterns & practices summit....

Ajoy has posted that three of the sessions have been made available online at pnp Summit videos online . Since one of the three sessions is one that Grigori and I did about the Acceptance Testing Guide, Driving Development with Acceptance Testing , I
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:48 AM

Who is using WCSF?

Blaine and I would like to ask the community to let us know "who is using WCSF?"  We know that WCSF has been fairly successful based on: WCSF has been downloaded a few times (ok, it is really many thousands of times) The discussion forums
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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
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Monday, November 03, 2008 11:48 AM

Back from vacation... and a lot has happened in the last week

I took a week off, which was good. I visited family and spent time relaxing and playing video games. (Fallout3 rocks so far!!). I got back this morning to hundreds of emails to go through. After reading almost all of it, there were a few things that happened
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:12 AM

How to migrate from CAB/SCSF to Composite WPF

Blaine recently posted that there is a CAB to Prism Comparison Available on Codeplex . This links to Composite Application Guidance for CAB Developers , a download from the CompositeWPF community site. While this document does not help you decide IF [*]
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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
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:00 AM

Acceptance Test Engineering guide Alpha Available

Last night I posted the Alpha version of Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if Software is Ready for You or Your Customer to the Acceptance Test Engineering CodePlex community site . There are 300+ pages of content. It is still a bit rough,
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Monday, August 25, 2008 9:20 AM

What is a "brown-bag talk"?

In past posts, and the recent Unit testing SharePoint post, I have mentioned "brown-bag talks." This has spurred emails from non-native English speakers asking me what in the heck a brown-bag talk is... I am not sure if this is a Microsoft term, or a
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Friday, August 22, 2008 2:38 PM

Unit testing SharePoint

Francis has an article on Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications He also did a brownbag talk on this yesterday, which was very interesting and brought up a few big challenges and ways to work around them. Enjoy
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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
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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 &
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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
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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
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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"
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