Developer′s Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library, Visual Basic Edition (Patterns & Practices) - Softcover

Homer, Alex; Botto, Nicolas; Brumfield, Bob; Melnik, Grigori; Renaud, Erik; Simonazzi, Fernando; Tavares, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735651779 ISBN 13: 9780735651777

Publisher: Microsoft Press US, 2011

Synopsis

Developer's Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library, Visual Basic Edition Introduction to using Microsoft Enterprise Library version 5 for experienced developers.

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About the Author

Alex Homer, well known author of many ASP.NET titles for Wrox Press and others.

Nicolas Botto is a software engineer and development consultant based in Argentina. He has more than 10 years of experience in helping enterprise customers building scalable component frameworks and based on the .NET Framework since 2001. He currently spends much of his time working for Microsoft Corp helping the patterns & practices group in building useful stuff like tools, guidelines and application blocks for the worldwide community of developers.

Bob Brumfield is a software developer at Microsoft with the patterns & practices team, primarily working on Prism, Enterprise Library and Web guidance projects. Prior to joining Microsoft, he focused on helping teams deliver Microsoft-based solutions as a consultant in the Colorado Rocky Mountain region. Bob has more than 15 years experience with professional software development and architecture.

Grigori Melnik is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Enterprise Library and Acceptance Testing Guidance projects. Prior to that, Grigori was a researcher, software engineer, and educator long enough to remember the joy of programming in Fortran. His areas of expertise include agile methods, empirical software engineering, and software testing. Grigori is a regular contributor to software conferences around the world. He is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory board. Grigori holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Erik Renaud is an agile coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. His current mandates concentrate on large financial institutions creating new teams that directly support their primary activities. Erik has over 10 years of experience developing software, coaching teams to architect, model and analyze software solutions. He ultimately helps them develop the solution using cutting edge .net technologies and offers guidance packages that accelerate the development phase. He is a certified ScrumMaster, which helps him lead teams to success, and often offers training in object oriented technologies.

Fernando Simonazzi is a software developer and architect with over 12 years of professional experience. He has been a contributor in several projects for Microsoft's patterns & practices group, including Prism v4 and several versions of the Enterprise Library.

Chris Tavares is a development lead on the patterns & practices team, producing written and code-based guidance for .NET developers. For the last three years he's been the dev lead on the Enterprise Library project. As part of that role, Chris is the primary author of the Unity dependency injection container. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris was a trainer, consultant and contractor, worked on shrink-wrap software in several industries, and even did a short stint with embedded systems for the Navy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press US
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0735651779
• ISBN 13: 9780735651777
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272