The Microsoft patterns & practices Smart Client Team has released the Composite UI Application Block (C# version) to the Community.

Check the downloads section in this site to get the latest MSI.

Highlights of the release:

• Tests for Visual Studio Team System and NUnit
• Comprehensive QuickStarts
• Full documentation
• Visual Basic.NET version will be available as pubished in the release plan

"Grab it from the Downloads section of the GotDotNet CodeGallery. This build works on the final shipping version of Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. Please post any feedback about this CTP build to the "Enterprise Library Pre-Release Discussion" message board."

Description:

"Enterprise Library for Microsoft .NET 1.x has been a smashing success with two releases and over 150K downloads. The June 2005 release is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, but many of you are eagerly awaiting this next release of Enterprise Library which is specifically designed for .NET 2.0. In this webcast, we discuss how Enterprise Library has evolved to a true .NET 2.0 library."

Presenter: Ron Jacobs, PRODUCT MANAGER, Microsoft Corporation

The Composite UI Application Block - October 2005 CTP is now available

New or updated features:

• Codebase updated to use .NET 2.0 Release Candidate (Build 2.0.50727.26)
• Usability and simplification of the API: check out the startup sequence in CAB and new helper initialization classes (look at BankTeller Quickstart for details)
• New dependency injection mechanism. This is probably transparent to most of you. If you have extended CAB in any way before (like writing your own monitors, then this is important)
  Improved performance
• New improved documentation (although the final release will include much richer one)

This patch should be applied to Enterprise Library January 2005 if you have built or are building applications compiled in .NET Framework 1.1 using Enterprise Library, and you may wish to run these applications using the .NET Framework 2.0. More details are available in the Readme file in the Documentation section of this site.

Read Scott's post and get it solved.

It is done: The August CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available for download!

If you want to participate in the Enterprise Library 2.0 Pre-Release Discussion, just klick here.

If you want to be up to date on what's going on with Enterprise Library 2.0 for the .NET Framework 2.0, you should read Fernando Simonazzi's Blog.

Fernando is one of the Enterprise Library 2.0 Developers.

The p&p Team has just released hands on labs for the CAB (Composite UI Application Block) released recently.

More details.