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Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to
the p&p library of software architecture guidance:

Unity for Silverlight
December 2008 Release (1.2)

Quick Links:

– MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd362339.aspx

– Community Forum: http://codeplex.com/unity

What is Unity?

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container. This release of Unity is a port of Unity Application Block 1.2 to Microsoft Silverlight 2.0.

What’s New?

The following capabilities and packaging of the Unity container have been adjusted in this release:

– The single Microsoft.Practices.Unity.dll file in the Silverlight version contains all the classes from the three separate desktop DLLs: Microsoft.Practices.Unity.dll, Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder2.dll, and Microsoft.Practices.Unity.StaticFactoryExtension.dll. You only need to reference and deploy the one assembly in your Silverlight projects.

– Because of differences in the Silverlight security model, only public types can be created and injected by the container. The desktop version allows you to also inject internal types.

– XML configuration is not supported.

– The Unity interception mechanism is not supported.

An updated quickstart is also included.

Information on Microsoft patterns & practices

– Visit us at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ to see the full line of existing patterns & practices.

Mark Hindsbo from Microsoft interviews Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic.  They discuss the impact of Cloud Computing as it relates to the application developer, the enterprise, and the impact on consulting organizations.

Link

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Mickey-Williams-and-David-Pallmann-of-Neudesic-on-the-Impact-of-Cloud-Computing/

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