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Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:51 PM

Gosh! GAT/GAX is Golden!

Hot off the presses: the February 2008 release of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions is now available. In addition to a number of new features, it's great to see that GAT/GAX has finally been allowed to graduate from Community
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Friday, August 03, 2007 11:22 PM

GAX += 0.1;

Grigori has just announced the release of the Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit, July 2007 CTP (or simply "1.3" to their mates). While I would have personally liked to see a more substantial list of changes, this looks like
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:02 PM

GAX 1.3 for Orcas announced

Grigori Melnik , who has taken over responsibility of GAX and Enterprise Library since my departure from patterns & practices, has spilled the beans on the initial plans for the next version of GAX, which is being called 1.3 internally (but probably
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Monday, March 26, 2007 11:22 AM

Clarius updates the Software Factories Toolkit

Hot on the heals of the release of the February 2007 CTP of the Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit , Clarius has just launched the February 2007 CTP of their Software Factories Toolkit . The SFT provides a number of new tools
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:43 PM

Just Released: GAT and GAX, February 2007 CTP

After a false start a couple of weeks ago (when it was still February), we're pleased to announce that we've finally released the February 2007 CTP of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and the Guidance Automation Extensions . These technologies are increasingly
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Monday, February 12, 2007 8:52 PM

Software Factory Building Roundup

There have been a few great posts in the last couple of weeks about building software factories. Jezz Santos and Edward Bakker have been posting a series of articles titled Factories 201 to take people beyond the basics. To date, they have posted on the
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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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Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:57 PM

EntLib 3.0: Strong Naming Guidance Package

I hope you all had a great Christmas, or whatever else you may or may not choose to celebrate at this time of year. (I've probably been in the USA too long, with this amount of political correctness showing through ;-). This was my first Christmas in
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:37 PM

Clarius releases Software Factories Toolkit CTP

In order to build the best possible deliverables, the patterns & practices team pulls in a number of external specialists and industry experts to work on our teams. For the last couple of years, we've been working very closely with Clarius Consulting
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Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:37 PM

Installing GAT/GAX and factories under Windows Vista

Now that Windows Vista is here, I know a lot of people are going to want to run GAT/GAX and Software Factories on the new OS. While it is possible to run these on Vista, there are some known issues with the June 2006 CTPs of GAT/GAX, especially around
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:36 AM

DSL and GAT: Together at last (sort of)

Combining automated guidance and Domain-Specific Languages is one of the key themes for the next-generation software factory platform that we're currently working on. Currently, these concepts are supported in separate deliverables, namely the Guidance
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Friday, September 15, 2006 4:52 PM

p&p Installers in the Vista World

Yesterday I took the plunge and installed Windows Vista RC1 and Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh. Unfortunately my notebook is over 2 years old and pretty sluggish (it gets a whopping 1.0 "Windows Experience Index" score) so I'm missing out on most
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Sunday, August 27, 2006 8:20 PM

Debugging Guidance Packages

In the last couple of weeks a couple of people have pinged me to ask about how to best test and debug guidance packages built with the Guidance Automation Toolkit . Two questions on the same topic in a month is my threshold for creating a blog post (it's
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 3:20 PM

Just Released: Web Service Software Factory

The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce the availability of the first "official" release of the Web Service Software Factory . The Service Factory is the latest addition to our fast-growing crop of factories, including the Smart Client
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Monday, July 17, 2006 4:28 PM

Software Factories: The Next Generation

First, a little comic relief about factories and meta-factories . In case you haven't noticed, the patterns & practices Factory Factory assembly line is well and truly moving! Last month saw the release of the Smart Client Software Factory . Last
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