Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond
Validation Application Block ported to Silverlight
Earlier this week, we published a code drop of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 02/18/2011
Enterprise Library Extensibility
Extensibility has always been one of the key design principles for Enterprise Library. Today, there...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 01/12/2011
Preliminary Enterprise Library for Silverlight backlog is published. Vote now!
Greetings, Silverlight LOB developers! We’ve published our preliminary backlog for the Enterprise...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 12/10/2010
SQL Configuration Source for Enterprise Library
SQL Configuration Source for Enterprise Library 5.0 is now available. It allows storing...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 12/02/2010
How do software practitioners stay current - IEEE Software Magazine Survey
As a member of the IEEE Software Advisory Board, I’d like to invite you to participate in a short...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/30/2010
Validation Application Block for Silverlight - open question
As we are spiking on the EntLib Silverlight Integration Pack, we can use some feedback on the...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/15/2010
Enterprise Library roadmap
After the release of Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 in April 2010, our team focused on getting...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/03/2010
Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Silverlight - what do you want to see in it?
Update 12/09/2010: Thank you all who posted their thoughts in response to this blog and in the...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 10/08/2010
Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library released!
Lots of excitement in the area of Enterprise Library guidance! As part of the Enterprise Library...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 08/31/2010
The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010
We, at Microsoft patterns & practices, are hosting our flagship event in October – The...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 08/25/2010
Developer's Guide to Enterprise Library - Release Candidate
From the TechEd floor… To complement our set of learning resources for Enterprise Library...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 06/08/2010
Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released
In the continued commitment to our users - .NET enterprise developers, we are releasing a fully...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 05/24/2010
Enterprise Library 5.0/Unity 2.0 – second batch of deliverables
We’ve released the following on MSDN today: Enterprise Library 5.0 Final Doc Set (includes the...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 05/05/2010
Enterprise Library on Windows Azure
Windows Azure Guidance project investigated capabilities and limitations of Enterprise Library 5.0...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/30/2010
Enterprise Library 5.0 on XP: additional test pass, no issues
It’s been a week since we released Enterprise Library 5.0. I’ve been watching the blogosphere,...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/28/2010
Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide
Enterprise Library users’ community, hello! The 5.0 release has received quite the welcome from so...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/24/2010
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released!
Last Friday I signed off on the last quality gates! Yesterday we had our Release Readiness...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/20/2010
Enterprise Library 5: Code is done, MSDN next week
Greetings, Enterprise Library users! I know many of you have been eagerly waiting for the v5...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/15/2010
Enterprise Library 5.0 is near: Beta 2 is out!
It’s been just a month since we released Beta 1. In this short period of time, it has received...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/15/2010
Enterprise Library 5.0 Beta1 and Unity 2.0 Beta1 are released
Greetings! I am very happy to announce the BETA1 releases of Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 and...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 02/08/2010
Announcing Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Roadmap
When will Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2.0 ship? In short, on April 14, 2010. In the meantime, we...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 01/20/2010
Just released: EntLib Contrib – January 2010
Enterprise Library Contrib community just published a new release. Congratulations! Check it out!...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 01/19/2010
Enterprise Library 5.0 preview video posted
The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 12/07/2009
Powered by EntLib
When speaking about or demoing EntLib, I often get asked which Microsoft products Enterprise Library...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/13/2009
Dependency Injection pattern in APIs
My colleague and friend Chris Tavares, who is the Dev Lead on Enterprise Library and Unity,...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/12/2009
Zen and the Art of Managing Crosscutting Concerns – EntLib Dev Guide Preview
A new public preview release is now available on Codeplex. It now includes the following chapters,...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/12/2009
Grigori at PDC
I’ll be at PDC2009 in LA next week. I’ll be happy to meet with EntLib and Unity users as well as...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 11/11/2009
p&p Summit 2009: What’s coming in Enterprise Library 5.0
Yesterday Bob Brumfield and I gave a talk on EntLib5.0 at p&p summit in Redmond . We’ve...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 10/16/2009
Removing WMI support from Enterprise Library
In our quest to simplify EntLib’s codebase, we are considering removing WMI2 support in v5. This is...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 10/13/2009
Enterprise Library reaches 2 million downloads!
Enterprise Library has a broad reach and adoption. No wonder, since it embodies many of the proven...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 09/08/2009
EntLib/Unity Trainers
If you are offering industrial or academic courses or workshops that use Enterprise Library or...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 08/14/2009
Unity 2.0 container update
Our latest work on Unity 2.0 is available on Codeplex (see change set 28516). This is the first work...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 07/16/2009
Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, volume 1 BETA2 release
Today I am pleased to announce the release of the beta2 of the first volume of our Acceptance Test...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 06/30/2009
Enterprise Library 5.0: Architectural refactoring complete
The highest priority story in the EntLib5 backlog is ARC01: Architectural refactoring, which...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 06/25/2009
Video on what’s coming in EntLib 5.0
In this channel9 video, Chris and I give a 10,000 ft view on what’s coming in EntLib5.0. For...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 06/25/2009
Thoughts on improving performance of the Logging Application Block
EntLib5 team is working on improving performance of the logging block (story LAB02 in our product...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 06/19/2009
Taking User Experience Seriously
As I have mentioned in my previous posts, over the years, Enterprise Library grew large (it now...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 05/14/2009
EntLibContrib – May 2009 Release and future plans
Two of our community champions François Tanguay and Stephen Phillips just pushed out a new release...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 05/05/2009
Enterprise Library 5.0: Product Backlog prioritization results
Some two weeks ago, we exposed the preliminary product backlog for Enterprise Library 5.0 and...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 04/16/2009
Enterprise Library 5.0 – tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open – your participation is invited!
EntLib Community! First of all, let me thank all of those who actively took part in providing their...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/27/2009
Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog (Tentative, non-prioritized)
Refer to the following list of possible features/stories for Enterprise Library v5.0 and the codes...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/26/2009
Thinking about business rules in Enterprise Library 5.0
We’ve been exploring the feedback on business rules and how they may apply to EntLib. We see a...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/26/2009
Ethnographies to guide strategy
Ethnographies are descriptions of people with their habits and points of difference (typically, in...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/25/2009
(Un)training puppies or adventures into the world of agile
As I was going through postings from our internal agile discussion forum (yes, we do have one at...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/20/2009
Just Released – Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2
I know it’s easy to get lost in the plethora of announcements and buzz from MIX’09, but today we are...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/18/2009
Where to find useful stuff from the Agile conference?
Agile conference traditionally publishes proceedings (that’s where you find all research papers and...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 03/14/2009
Enterprise Library FAQs wiki now open
Greetings, the Enterprise Library user community! Today the patterns & practices EntLib team...
Author: Grigori Melnik MSFT Date: 02/10/2009