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We have posted the complete session schedule and abstracts for the October p&p Summit, so this is a good time to remind everyone that the Early Bird Discount expires this coming Monday (August 31^st). Hurry up and get your registrations and save $s.

New this year are 15-minute “Lightning Talks”...

Erwin from patterns & practices team just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine on "Building WPF and Silverlight applications using Prism". Check it out here.

Related links:
p&p Prism: http://www.microsoft.com/prism
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p&p is gearing up to create next set of guidance for web applications. Before we get going on this, true to p&p spirits, we would like to gather feedback from you on what are the important areas to focus with this guidance effort. Your input is very important to the project’s success. Blaine...

You have heard of and probably used patterns in your projects. But have you heard of the "Mickey Mouse" pattern. In this short video, Ward Bell, gives you a quick overview of this unheard of pattern.

Ward delivered a great session at the last summit and is coming back to present...

patterns & practices has produced few guides related to testing (including performance testing, security testing of web apps, and testing of .NET application blocks). However, we have heard a lot of requests from our customers for guidance on testing and test strategy in general. Based...

We have a 'fan drive' going on right now to get 250 fans by June 30th. Become a fan of p&p summit on Facebook by clicking here.

If we hit 250 fans by June 30th, one lucky fan will get a free pass to the p&p summit. Act fast and become a fan.

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At p&p, we started a project a few months back to provide guidance on how to build data access layers that use common patterns like Repository and Unit of Work using Microsoft's data access technologies. We called this the "Data Access Guidance" project . Don Smith, whom...

Enterprise Library team at p&p is busy working on the next version of Enterprise Library 5.0. You will find the feature backlog here and of course, you can vote on the features. In this video, yours truly is joined by Grigori Melnik, Program Manager for EntLib and ...

As we mentioned in our earlier post, we release a drop from our SharePoint Guidance project every two weeks which is the duration of our iteration. We released Drop 10 to our CodePlex project site last week. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung are discussing...