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The EntLib Extensions to WSSF have gotten more and more attention lately. There now is a (very positive) announcement about the extensions on the WSSF site , and there is a complete article on MSDN explaining how to use the extensions. Check it out! Links: EntLib Extensions to WSSF: http://www.codeplex...
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Some of my (Dutch!) Avanade colleagues recently released 'Entlib Extensions To WSSF' to CodePlex. Quite a cool addition to the already rich Enterprise Library. Entlib Extensions to WSSF (Web Service Software Factory) is an extension that enables WSSF to easily integrate with Enterprise Library...
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I have created an example using Enterprise Library's Policy Injection application block. In this example, I am applying an event log trace to a WCF host using a named pipe binding. http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/chilberto/pages/policy-injection-with-wcf-service.aspx
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This morning I woke up to Tom's announcement on the new EntLib Contrib release. No big surprises for me personally, since we have been working on this release together for quite some while. Tom actually picked up where I left it, when I went to sleep (and Tom woke up and got to work). Hooray for...
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Grigori Melnik ( yeah, you know... Tom++ ) is planning a new Enterprise Library release for Visual Studio Orca's . Yay! From Grigori's weblog: We, at patterns & practices, are planning a release of Enterprise Library for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). It will happen at around the same time Visual...
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After having hosted the EntlibContrib project for a couple of months now, I believe we have come to a point at which we have reached critical mass and provide good value over Enterprise Library (we even managed to fix some issues that where logged in the Enterprise Libraries issue tracker on codeplex...
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A couple of weeks ago the "Enterprise Library Contrib" project was published on CodePlex ( www.codeplex.com/EntLibContrib ). Meanwhile a couple of cool people joined the project, with intent to share and collaborate on the extensions they've made to EntLib. Currently, 2 extensions have already been commited...
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Even though the Validation Application Block supports extensive composition of validation rules (using And and Or 'operators' and the Negated property) PIAB doesnt. PIAB Matchingrules are always composed using an "AND" operator (Namespace is 'BusinessLogic.Actions' and Tag is 'ShouldBeAudited') . Additionally...
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As you might already know, one of the additions to Enterprise Library version 3 is the ability to manage configuration files from within the Visual Studio IDE. In order to have both the existing configuration tool and the integrated editor for Visual Studio use the same logic under the covers EntLib...
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Again i am very proud to have been part of the development team. Tom's announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2007/04/05/just-released-enterprise-library-3-0-april-2007.aspx Download at MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=62ef5f79-daf2-43af-9897-d926f03b9e60&displaylang...
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Since Both Tom and Ed wrote an article explaining whatever the Policy Injection Application Block [PIAB] is, you might be interested in how to use this new block from within Enterprise Libraries February CTP . Tom, who is the Product Manager on Enterprise Library, has been keeping me fairly busy over...
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As announced on Tom Hollander's blog, the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 will include a new application block: the Policy Injection Application Block . Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) Edward and me noticed a striking similarity with an earlier effort by Microsoft Patterns and Practices...
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Let’s start out with a little history here. About 1.5 year ago I worked as a development coach to a team of programmers at a large dutch insurance broker. To satisfy some of the infrastructural requirements we spec-ed in enterprise library v1. The team I worked at had a pretty sophisticated build environment...
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The December 2006 CTP of the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) from Microsoft P&P ships with a 2.0 version of the Microsoft Enterprise Library. The Data Accesss factory inside Service Factory generates code which uses the Data Access Application Block from Enterprise Library. This interface of...
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Because of the lack postings on this weblog, below is a little heads-up on whatever I have been doing recently. During the second half of 2006 I’ve been fairly busy implementing a “ software factory ” strategy (whatever that means J ) for one of the bigger consultancy companies based in europe. This...