Patterns and Practices

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…

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.…

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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,…

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…

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…

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 9 to our CodePlex project site last week. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis…

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 8 to our CodePlex project site on April 24th. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung guide you…

I am sure many of you are regular readers of MSDN Magazine. We are happy to announce the launch of a new "patterns & practices" column starting with the May 2009 issue. Alex Homer from the p&p team authors the first installment: You Can Depend On Patterns…

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 7 to our CodePlex project site on 4/13th. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung guide you through…