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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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Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:22 PM

The Repository Factory - Try It, Use It, Contribute!

This news isn't exactly hot of the presses, but it probably flew under the radar for many of you so I thought it was worth a blog post. The first official release of the Repository Factory is now available to download from CodePlex. Not sure what this
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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
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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 24, 2007 3:24 AM

Tech.Ed, here I come!

To continue my recent tradition of attending Tech.Ed in a different region every year, this year I'll be playing on home soil at Tech.Ed Australia (on the Gold Coast, 7-10 August) and Tech.Ed New Zealand (in Auckland, 13-15 August). I'll be presenting
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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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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:44 AM

Software Factories Exit Poll

It's been almost a year since we released our first software factory. In the months leading up to that first release, the Smart Client Factory, we thought we were onto something interesting, but I certainly wouldn't have predicted that a year later we
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:59 PM

VSIP Factory on CodePlex

While the initial crop of patterns & practices software factories target different types of business applications, we're seeing that the software factory form-factor is a great way of packaging guidance for some less expected scenarios. One such example
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:26 PM

Enterprise Library: The Videos

For quite some time, Don has been been putting together short video tutorials on the Web Service Software Factory (including a brand new one giving a preview of the upcoming v3 release ). Up until now I've never tried this, but Don has been getting pretty
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:13 PM

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Yes, it's finally here. The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce the official release of Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007 for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0. Highlights of this Release If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology
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Monday, March 26, 2007 11:39 AM

"Enterprise Library 3.0 - What's New?" Webcast on tomorrow, March 27th

We're currently putting the final coat of polish onto Enterprise Library 3.0, and we should have the release out the door right at the start of April. But we wanted to get a head start on the launch party with our first EntLib 3.0 webcast, which is on
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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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Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:02 PM

It's Webcast Time!

We've been in a bit of a webcast drought in p&p for a little while, but we're trying to make some amends over the next couple of months with a number of webcasts about Enterprise Library and Software Factories. Here's the schedule for the first few:
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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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