Following my last post around Unity and PIAB, and as already mentioned, PIAB policies have to be explicitly applied to a Unity Container. But what about if you want to apply always the PIAB policies to your container? Easy, apply an extension that does that for you: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; ...

The P&P team just release a bunch of changes on EntLib 4 and Unity. Finally, PIAB is now integrated with Unity! Check out at: Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008 Unity Application Block 1.2 - October 2008 Soon, I’ll try to post some impressions about this Unity release… [crossposted from http://blogs.msdn.com/hugobatista]

Sergey Solyanik left Google and is back to Microsoft. His post on the subject is just... hum.. pragmatic! Here are my favorite parts of the post: (bold format is my responsibility) (...) "First, I love multiple aspects of the software development process. I like engineering, but I love the business aspects no less. I can't write code for the ...

For those who attended DEV09 and asked me the video source: Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed   And for those who didn't understand why the video at the beginning of the session.. well.. it was just a teaser so I could get the audience's attention! :)

Miguel, a GASP fellow, finally migrated his blog to the Gasp website. Please welcome Miguel and check his feed!

WOW Now we're talking!

Finally, the so expected EntLib Dependency Injection implementation is out. Dependency Injection is, IMHO, the most important design pattern on extensible software design. But unfortunately, Enterprise Library previously lacked the support of a lightweight Dependency Container, even if Object Builder was trying to provide this. My view is that ...

Something I normally get annoyed when reviewing others code is when  I have to scroll horizontally. Even when activating ''Wrap'', code doesn't look ''sharp'' and clear. A not well known feature of Visual Studio (2002/3/5/8) is the ability to add a Guide Line to the text editor, which would show a visible line indicating a specific column. ...

This post saved my day.

Paulo Morgado, a GASP fellow, is presenting a Webcast tomorrow about Web Client Software Factory. This webcast is provided by geekSpeak. Paulo is known by his expertise in this kind of factories, so I'm sure this is a must attend webcast!