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Enterprise Library 4.1 – October 2008 is Available for Download From here . This release includes: Support for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Interception mechanism in the Unity Application Block. Performance improvements. Usability improvements of the config tool. Fixes. Enjoy!
Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released The patters & practices team has announced the release of the EntLib 4.0 March 2008 CTP . This release has been adapted to work with WMI version 2.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. Enterprise Library 4.0 has the Allow Partially-Trusted Caller attribute (APTCA) on all assemblies. This means that you can call the methods of Enterprise Library and the application blocks from an application running in a partial trust environment. You can do this...
Service Factory: Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 is Live! After the broken IDE changes were made, and the GAT and GAX were released for Visual Studio 2008 RTM , the Software Factories support for Visual Studio 2008 starting to show up. Today, the p&p team has released the Service Factory: Modeling Edition February 2008. You can download: Service Factory: Modeling Edition Binary Release Service Factory: Modeling Edition Source Code Release ( Visual Studio 2008 ) Enjoy!
Just Released: GAT and GAX for Visual Studio 2008 RTM I have posted earlier about the broken DTE interfaces in Visual Studio 2008 that caused the GAT and GAX to break, which made the Software Factories to not work on Visual Studio 2008 . Now that the February 2008 release of GAT and GAX support Visual Studio 2008 , we can expect the software factories updates for Visual Studio 2008 to show up really soon. Downloads: Guidance Automation Extensions - February 2008 Release Guidance Automation Toolkit...
Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 I've written in the past about Software Factories Support for Visual Studio 2008 , and mentioned that currently there is no support for Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008. During the time that post was written, project Acropolis was alive and there were no plans to enable working with CAB and Smart Client Software Factory in Visual Studio 2008 . Recently, when project Acropolis was stopped and the Composite WPF started instead...
Just Released: Service Factory Modeling Edition (v3) for Visual Studio 2005 As I've written in my post Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition Roadmap , the final release of Service Factory: Modeling Edition (v3) supports Visual Studio 2005 only. The Visual Studio 2008 release should be out around February, the same time that Visual Studio 2008 is launched. You can download the Service Factory Modeling Edition (v3) for Visual Studio 2005 release from codeplex . Watch the 15 minutes Walktrough...
Acropolis Out, WPF Composite Client Applications in! Back in June 2007, during Teched Orlando, Microsoft has announced the new Client Application Framework: "Acropolis" . In the mean time, the patterns & practices team has announced that there are no plans for future releases of CAB and the Smart Client Application Block, and the support for WPF in CAB will be limited to Winforms Interop scenarions only (covered in SCSF May 2007 release). As many incubation project in Microsoft, some...
Enterprise Library 3.5 for Visual Studio 2008 After releasing Enterprise Library 3.X last May, and starting the Enterprise Library Contrib project, the team is currently working on porting Enterprise Library to work with Visual Studio 2008. According to Grigori Melnik , this includes improving existing application blocks as well as guidance on how to use them. Melnik also mentions, that moving to Enterprise Library 3.5 does not include introducing new application blocks. No official date was provided...
EntLib Contrib is the community-driven open source project for extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library . Here's the quick list of everything in the September 2007 release ; for more detailed documentation follow the link above. Data Access Application Block extensions MySql, SqLite and SqlEx providers Exception Handling Application Block extensions SqlException Wrap Handler Logging Application Block extensions LogParser Policy Injection Application Block extensions PostSharp4EntLib...
Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition Roadmap Don Smith has published the September Drop of the new Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition (formerly known as Service Factory v3). This drop contains only a newer version of the Service Factory Documentation, and can be found here . Along with this drop, Don has updated the roadmap page for this software factory. Here are the highlights from this page: The final community release of the Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition is...
Software Factories Support for Visual Studio 2008 Since the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 , and the release of GAT/GAX July CTP that supports it, many of us are waiting for updates regarding the support for the current software factories such as Web Service Software Factory , Smart Client Software Factory and Web Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008. I've already mentioned in an earlier post that currently there is not support for those factories in Visual Studio 2008, since it broke...
Service Factory v3 - New Community Drop on CodePlex Build 117 alpha of Service Factory v3 is available for download from Community Page of Service Factory on CodePlex . In order to get started with this new release, go through the documentation of this release. It contains instructions for setting up the factory for your development environment, and also contains an introductory walkthrough that helps you understand how to benefit from the factory. The team is looking for your feedback, as the opportunity...
GAT/GAX July CTP, but no Software Factories The patterns & practices team has released the July 2007 CTP of Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions . It has only minor updates from the previous February CTP, but the big news about it is the support for Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2). Great news? not so much... Visual Studio 2008 has broken some of the DTE interfaces, and therefore it is not fully backward compatible. This means that none of the existing Software Factories...
This post is a step by step guide on how to write a custom validator using Application Block Software Factory and integrate it in the configuration editor of Enterprise Library.
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