Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The N-body modeling code and visualization I’ve been working on finally got off the ground in some sort of reasonable form last night. Here you can see it running with 5000 stars at over 30 frames a second.
It’s been working from the start (agile/TDD isn’t something you just write about) ...
Tags: EntLib, NBody.net, Parallel Computing, Prism, Technical computing, Unity, WPF
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
The Enterprise Library 5.0 team is starting to spin up and the first thing they’re doing is coming up with a prioritized product backlog. And that’s where you can help! We’re looking for people to provide feedback on our product backlog and help us make sure we ...
Tags: EntLib, p&p
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
I thought I'd collect together a series posts related to some of my adventures using EntLib 4.1 and Unity 1.2 with Prism 1.0 to build a composite WPF application. Using the EntLib Validation Block with WPF Part 2: Configuration Based Validation Using ...
Tags: EntLib, p&p, Prism, Unity
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
In part 1 I covered using the EntLib Validation Block in combination with the Presentation Model pattern described in the p&p’s Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism). The end result was a presentation model decorated with attributes which describe how to validate the model and surface validation errors to the ...
Tags: EntLib, Prism, Unity, WPF
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Getting validation working with data binding in WPF is pretty simple as .NET 3.5 added support for IDataErrorInfo. You can read more about this on the WPF SDK blog and in the databinding overview article on MSDN. This post outlines how you can go about extending this validation approach to ...
Tags: EntLib, WPF
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
A month or so back p&p shipped Unity 1.2 a dependency injection container for .NET. Just in time for the gift giving season comes Unity for Silverlight! So if you want to use DI as part of your Silverlight application today you can.
Unity for Silverlight December 2008 Release (1.2)
The ...
Tags: EntLib, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Unity
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
I've been working on an application that uses Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) and wanted to upgrade to use Enterprise Library 4.1 rather than the 4.0 version that Prism originally shipped against. Turns out updating this is pretty straightforward (but not trivial)...
Tags: EntLib, Gotchas, p&p, Prism
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Much of this happened last week but what with my white paper to finish and preparing for the p&p Summit I didn't get time to blog about it. Anyway here goes, it's a long list... Unity 1.2 Added an interception mechanism (extension) and integration of the Policy ...
Tags: EntLib, Microsoft, p&p, Unity
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The System.Data.Linq.DataContext class exposes a TextWriter as the Log property allowing you to monitor the SQL that's getting executed under the covers. The trivial usage of this is to simply set the property to Console.Out and watch the results.
Given that I was adding the Enterprise Library 4.0 Logging Block to ...
Tags: C#, Coding, EntLib, Linq, xUnit
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Grigori Melnik, Product Planner for EntLib 4.0, has some interesting posts on his blog regarding their plans for the new version of EntLib and its dependency injection framework in particular. Technorati Tags: EntLib
Tags: EntLib, Events, p&p
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