Microsoft’s DI … Unity or MEF… will there be a big change?

Not long ago (early April), P&P team just released the Unity as a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container, it facilitates building loosely coupled applications… CodePlex site is here http://codeplex.com/unity 
Last week, Microsoft’s .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET — Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) — designed [...]

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MS Architecture Joural 15

Journal 15: THE ROLE OF AN ARCHITECT.Welcome to the 15th issue of The Architecture Journal! In this issue, we wanted to kick start a discussion about our emerging profession. We’ve assembled a wide variety of perspectives from architects throughout the industry and at organizations like IASA and the Open Group. Download your electronic copy HERE.

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Framework Design Studio Released…

Krzysztof Cwalina and team released a Framework Design Studio that is a set of tools for framework and library developers to view, review, and compare versions of managed APIs.
It allows you to

List APIs exposed from a managed code assembly
Compare APIs in two versions of an assembly
Review APIs
Comment on API design
File bugs to a defect database [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 Videos

Day 2`s Session Videos
You can check my notes on the sessions that I’ve attended here
Keynote (Day 2) – Enterprise Architecture at the Government of Canada
The Government of Canada has started to apply EA in innovative ways and they are getting results in ways (and places) you will not expect. Come learn how Canada’s Chief Architect [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 My Notes

Day 2 in general is interesting… but when I found that Simon Guest won`t come tomorrow, a bit disappointed. For the full list of sessions videos, click here
KeyNote: EA – Everything Aligned
Gary Doucet from Government of Canada shared his insight in EA implementation. He emphasised that the enterprise architecture already exist in the enterprise… just [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 1 Videos

Canada Strategic Architecture Forum 2008 Day 1

Morning session is quite interesting, it seems that Microsoft having a big bet for future in MS-Surface and natural interface (IPod Touch?)
Richard (BMO) having a very interest presentation to share his experience as a Chief Architect in BMO, some of them are very practical (or real) tips…
Afternoon sessions [...]

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