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Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:50 AM

Software Factories: 100,000 served!

Soma , our division's VP, has just announced on his blog that the first four patterns & practices software factories have reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads. If you haven't checked out the Web Service Software Factory , Web Client Software
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:34 PM

patterns & practices on Channel 9

A few months ago, Peter and Ed took the Channel 9 audience through a guided tour of our shiny new work environment. Our team does have (as far as I know) the coolest work environment on the Redmond campus, so hopefully it was an interesting video - but
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:25 PM

BT's SMS Trace Listener for EntLib Logging Application Block

Our friends over at BT recently released a beta of the Web21C SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio . This SDK consists of a bunch of cool .NET APIs that provide access to BT services such as SMS, presence and voice calls. But if that's not enough, they've
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:49 PM

One-Stop Shopping for the p&p Development Plan

One complaint that we've heard fairly frequently is that the p&p team isn't transparent enough on what we're working on, when new releases will be available, and what we're not currently working on. Not having this information can result in teams
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Friday, January 19, 2007 5:33 PM

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 January 2007 CTP

The second CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 is now available to download on our CodePlex community site ! Full details on this release are in the included release notes, but here are a few highlights: Validation Application Block (also see my previous post
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:06 PM

Validation Application Block in the January 2007 CTP

Our team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the January 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0. This new preview release will be available on our community site any day now, but in the meantime I wanted to tease you a bit by showing you a few
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Friday, January 12, 2007 10:23 AM

Just Released: Web Service Software Factory for WCF!

Via Don : the December 2006 release of the Web Service Software Factory is now available! This is a major new release that supports building services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Don (ever so eloquently) lists his highlights as: WSDL-first
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:04 PM

Validators supplied in the VAB

We're making great progress with the Validation Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0, and one of the last remaining tasks is to make sure we include a compelling set of validators with the block. While it's very easy to build your own validator,
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:48 PM

I'm It!

Alas, the game of Blog-Tag has finally found me (thanks Jezz and Olaf !). Now that I'm tagged, I need to reveal five things about me that most people don't know, and then tag five more people. So here goes: I was born in Woden Valley Hospital in Canberra,
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