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]

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. ...

The VS Core team developed a great power toy for Visual Studio that provides a tree view of C#/VB.NET source code. Source Code Outliner is available at Codeplex. Give a look...

Found this cool e-book about writing quality code with Visual Studio Team System. It's written by a group of Australian developers and it's worth a look. It talks about test-driven development, performance-tuning, application threat modeling, code analysis, Web load testing, and check-in policies. All in VSTS. The URL is ...

Through Mário, I found a comparison between VS 2005 and Eclipse. Here's my comment about the comparison: I'm a frequent user of VS.NET and a recent user for Eclipse. On the last months, I've been developing J2ME apps on Eclipse. My first impression of Eclipse is good, even if I felt that it was hard to mount the whole environment for what I’m ...

I've received a few mails about my post on crystal memory leaks (original version with pictures available here),  and the class I posted to solve the problem. Since that code was written to work on .net framework 1.1 and Crystal Reports XI, here's the same class to solve the problem in .net framework 2.0 and Crystal Reports XI ...

Sometimes, it would be useful to debug some code, which we have no source. For example, when we are using an external library or framework, like WCF, or a ado provider, and we want to trap a suspect behaviour. Today, for example, I needed to debug a strange situation when a worker thread was firing inside one of those libs, and consuming more ...

Migrating a .text 0.94/95 blog to CS was more easy than I thought, thanks to Metablog API. I only migrated posts, and didn't care about trackbacks or comments. Simple, efficient, and no pain. For those wanting to do the same, here's the code. It will need a reference to CookComputing.XmlRpc assembly. Some additional notes: Please remind that ...

24 hours later I submitted this to IBM, I was contacted by a representative to let me know that a hotfix media cd was leaving US by express mail, with my problem solved. Today I received the hotfix and confirmed that the problem is not reproducible anymore. Solved. On the other hand, today, and after two long months since I submitted this ...