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Monday, August 24, 2009 10:18 PM

See you at TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Just a quick post for anyone attending TechEd Australia and/or New Zealand, in the first couple of weeks of September 2009. I’ll be doing two presentations, so please stop by and say hello (and maybe even watch the sessions!). The sessions I’m presenting
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:34 AM

What do you want to see in EntLib 5.0?

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a blogging vacation of late. Rest assured that I’m still here and I’ll try to get some good posts happening soon. But for now I just wanted to draw your attention to one of Grigori ’s posts asking for
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:43 PM

Enterprise Library 5.0 kick-off! Spend your $100 wisely!

It’s that time again – the kick-off for the next major release of Enterprise Library. I can’t believe we’re already up to version 5.0 – it doesn’t seem like that long ago when we were planning version 1.0. Anyway, you should know the drill by now. The
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Friday, January 09, 2009 1:15 PM

Just Released: Validation Application Block Hands-On Lab

Reposting Grigori’s announcement in case you missed it: Here’s a gift for the New Year’s. We have produced a new hands-on lab on validation with Enterprise Library. It contains 13 exercises that walk you through capabilities of the Validation Application
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:32 PM

Constructors and Inheritance – Why is this still so painful?

Recently my team discovered a limitation in the RelativeDateTimeValidator that ships with the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block. This validator is used to check if a DateTime object occurs within a configured time before or after Now. It’s
Posted by tomholl | 19 Comments
Friday, October 10, 2008 3:56 PM

Speaking at WDNUG

It’s been a little while since I’ve presented at a public forum – particularly since I missed TechEd Australia after it clashed with my Great Barrier Reef holiday. However this is all going to change with my next live appearance in the centre of the known
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:26 AM

Enterprise Library 4.0 - Get it while it's hot!

It's almost exactly a year since I handed in the keys to the Enterprise Library bus, but I'm still as excited as ever about the release of a new version. The team has just released Enterprise Library 4.0, which features all of the blocks you know and
Posted by tomholl | 4 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:02 PM

Enterprise Library 4.0 Community Technology Preview

From Grigori : We are pleased to announce the release of the EntLib 4.0 March 2008 CTP and invite your feedback. This release has been adapted to work with WMI version 2.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. Enterprise Library 4.0 has the Allow Partially-Trusted
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:35 AM

Cool New Stuff on CodePlex

In the last few weeks there have been a number of interesting new projects added to CodePlex that you may want to check out. Resource Application Block Stephen Phillips has just checked in a complete application block to the EntLibContrib project. We
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:14 AM

Polymorphism and the Validation Application Block

The Validation Application Block is a useful piece of technology, but unfortunately it doesn't get along too well with that slippery character called Polymorphism. This is because you need to tell the block the exact type in which it should look for validators
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:03 PM

Unity + EntLib = ?

If you've been following Grigori Melnik's blog , you'll know a bit about Unity , the new Dependency Injection container that's coming in Enterprise Library 4.0. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the Unity Extensibility Workshop later this month
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:25 PM

Unity Workshop in Redmond

In case you missed it, the "Dependency Injection Application Block" promised for Enterprise Library 4.0 is now called "Unity" . (As an aside, I find it quite interesting how Microsoft's product names have been changing lately - in no time we've moved
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:32 PM

Enterprise Library 4.0 Plan Published!

Happy New Year to you all! The Enterprise Library team has started the new year with a bang by publishing their v4.0 product backlog onto CodePlex . As announced previously, the big ticket item is a new Dependency Injection Application Block, but there
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:51 PM

Prioritising Validation Results using VAB ASP.NET Integration

One of the many cool features of the Validation Application Block is the simple integration into ASP.NET web applications. By using the PropertyProxyValidator (PPV), you can associate input controls with specific properties of specific types, and the
Posted by tomholl | 6 Comments
Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:13 PM

Dependency Injection coming in EntLib v4

Just a quick note in case you missed Grigori's announcement on the patterns & practices team's plan to focus on Dependency Injection in the upcoming release of Enterprise Library, now apparently known as v4 (not v3.5 as announced previously). If you
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