EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

Enterprise Library Contrib September 2007 Release is available

Guy Burstein [MVP] — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:16:03 GMT

EntLib Contrib is the community-driven open source project for extensions to the patterns & practices

EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

Maor David - The Blog — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:34:56 GMT

EntLib Contrib is a community-developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise

EntLib 3.1: new contributions (more and more ...)

El Bruno — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:35:50 GMT

Buenas hace un tiempo posteaba sobre este nuevo programa de Microsoft Patterns and Practices , donde

5 reasons to download the EntLib Contrib September 2007 release

^(?:[^$]*)$ --Matches everything, captures nothing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:42:55 GMT

This morning I woke up to Tom's announcement on the new EntLib Contrib release. No big surprises

EntLib Contrib - community-developed extensions to Enterprise Library - September release

Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:46:19 GMT

I'd like to invite current users of EntLib to check out the recent EntLib Contrib release - it's worth

re: EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

gmelnik — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:51:59 GMT

Congratulations, Tom, Olaf and everyone who contributed to this release!

re: EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

Steve Gentile — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:21:03 GMT

Is the work Dave Hayden has done on Repository and the tools included in this update?

re: EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

tomholl — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:44:17 GMT

Sam - no it's not. I haven't looked at it too closely but I'm not sure it's really an "EntLib extension" - it looks more like an applied use of EntLib for a different scenario. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't see that as the goal of EntLibContrib.

Tom

Alot's going on the contrib front!

My Technobabble — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:28:48 GMT

A few weeks ago, Tom announced that the folks over in Entlib contrib have shipped a new release . That's

re: EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release

AndyH — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:33:46 GMT

Hi:

I'm on the fence w/GAT and GAX right now. With decades of experience in this industry, I'm think whoever is in charge of GAT and GAX is putting the cart before the horse. The forced pattern implementation of WCF, WCSF, etc (yeah, just what we need, another Microsoft acronym, that is built on TOP of yet another acronym (GAT), which is yet built on top of ANOTHER Microsoft acronym (EntLib)). NOT!

While I can definitely see the opportunity presented w/GAT and GAX, and w/EntLib, what you should be open-sourcing and getting 'out there', is not specific implementations for services, etc, but more recipes. More actions. More templates!

I firmly believe that Microsoft is putting the cart before the house in this releasing of WCF and WCSF and all these other enforced sets of patterns on the community. We won't just adopt your pattern suggestions! In the real world, people use many other things besides LINQ (another disaster waiting to happen IMO). We use the Provider Pattern (see DotNetNuke and why that framework is so popular) for Data. We loosely couple w/other means.

So IMO, if you want P&P to be truly successful, someone there will look over the wall, see that OVER A YEAR INTO GAT and GAX, it 'isn't working!', and will see that the road to acceptance is to focus on the patterns in the EntLib, focus on the recipes and making GAT and GAX easier to use (like, get rid of the stupid registration/deregistration crap. Why do we architects have to see that? Hide it! When we want to *run* the GAT, you know this, correct? So unload and load for us in the background. That's a nightmare and a whole discussion in itself! Ack), and let us architects worry about how the patterns should work together.

Heck, you want to suggest an architecture? That's great. BUT GET GAT AND GAX AND ENTLIB out there first!!!! You are most definitely not accomplishing this as yet, based on the page views on Codeplex, based on the obvious lack of recipes and actions and templates available. I mean, geez, it took someone a year to figure out that SEPARATING the Data Repository might be a good idea? And this is ALL you have to offer in the Data Repository? It can't possibly come close to competing w/MyGeneration or CodeSmith, and all applications are built on objects based on data and patterns.

I really want this to succeed, but the fact remains that for ONE year of work, GAT and GAX is like a 'tree falling in the forest' (for those int'l folks, that's an adage...that ends with 'if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?').