Help Us Prioritize the Enterprise Library 5.0 Backlog

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 ...

Using Prism With EntLib and Unity

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 ...

New Agile Videos on Channel 9

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

We've posted a couple of new videos on Channel 9 this week. One from last year's p&p Summit and a new one I shot last month showing how Visual Studio Team Architect build a team room without spending a lot of money. pnp summit 2008 video - Distributed Agile Development In this ...

Unity for Silverlight from patterns & practices

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 ...

How Organizational Structure Effects Software Quality: Learnings From Windows Vista

Monday, December 8th, 2008

When Nachiappan Nagappan from Microsoft Research (MSR) showed some of the results from his paper at the p&p Summit I pretty much had to check it out. THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON SOFTWARE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY  - Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy & Victor R. Basili The MSR team examined the ...