Yes - I'll be at TechEd 07. Yes - My birthday is November 5th. No - That doesn't bother me. Yes - You are invited! Let us know whether you are coming (send me an email with your name and the number of people you plan to take with you). We'll drop you a note on what we are up to, the weekend before. Hopefully weather is good and the flyer
You might have read about the Service Factory Customization Workshop held on Microsofts campus, the end of July. Since we know a large portion of the Service Factory community is based in Europe, Don Smith and myself are doing a second workshop in The Netherlands . This workshop will be similar to the workshop previously held in Redmond. The emphasis
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 redundancy across time zones! On the project homepage
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 Studio 2008 is out (Feb 2008 as per our roadmap
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!). From this point on we will try to release every
Most people should be familiar with the term “defensive programming”. It’s a way of writing code, in which the default mode is to explicitly check all assumptions you have in mind while writing logic (most of the time throwing exceptions to the caller). Though, when does this make sense? Assume you are developing a framework, application host or plug
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 to the sourcecode; the "additional matchingrules
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, the matchingrules themselves often contain
The DSL Toolkit knows a concept called shape (the thing that represents an element and is drawn on the modeling surface) and allows to define these shapes in 3 basic flavors: 1.) Geometry Shapes . Either a Rectangle, Rounded rectangle, Ellipse or Circle 2.) Image Shapes . An imported image 3.) Compartment Shapes . Either a Rectangle or Rounded rectangle