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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
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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
Posted by tomholl | 4 Comments
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
Posted by tomholl | 6 Comments
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
Posted by tomholl | 2 Comments
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
Posted by tomholl | 4 Comments
Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:28 PM

Invoking the Policy Injection Application Block at WCF Service Boundaries

Back when we originally designed the Policy Injection Application Block for Enterprise Library 3.0, we made a conscious decision not to target the block at WCF service boundaries. This wasn't because we didn't think there was value at injecting cross-cutting
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:51 AM

What do you want to see in EntLib vNext?

Grigori has finally broken the silence on the patterns & practices team's plans for Enterprise Library with this short post on the Codeplex community : Yes, we are planning a release of EntLib for VS2008, consisting of fixes and minor improvements.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:56 PM

EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

In keeping with the p&p team's tradition of naming a release after the month that's just finished, the September 2007 release of EntLib Contrib is now available! EntLib Contrib is the community-driven open source project for extensions to the patterns
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:47 PM

Abstractions: You can have too much of a good thing

Architects love abstracting things. And why wouldn't they - it allows you to hide those pesky implementation details out of the way so they don't trouble your callers, and lets you completely change the implementation at a later stage, provided the interface
Posted by tomholl | 19 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:56 AM

Mapping SQL Server Errors to .NET Exceptions (the fun way!)

As I mentioned in my last post , I've been having some fun discovering what it's like to use patterns & practices deliverables on a real enterprise application. One of the challenges I've faced was figuring out an exception management strategy that
Posted by tomholl | 10 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 5:37 PM

p&p in the Real World: First Impressions

As a product manager at patterns & practices , I got to write a lot more code than most people would expect from a product manager. However the nature of the job and the team meant that it was basically all prototypes and samples. So after over 3
Posted by tomholl | 8 Comments
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