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P&P/Design Patterns

• I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of the SAB+VAB+LAB from EntLib in order to create a custom Claims-Based identity system configured with SAB rules expressed with VAB expressions. It had just come up Friday that I couldn't use Ent Lib 4 because it was a CTP and not released. Well, now it is! Enterprise Library 4 has shipped! You can get EntLib 4 here.
• Also, with it Unity 1.1 has also shipped

BizTalk/WCF

• My good friend Tomas on A Generic WCF Service for WCF
• Tom Hollander has decided to take the hard way out and build a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ. Maybe he hasn't heard of Neuron. In our Fidelity LSI Case Study, we show processing 28 million messages per hour!

Visual Studio 2008/CLR

• Latest in great series of links with Visual Studio Links #28
• From that, Vance Morrison describes What's Coming in .Net Runtime Performance in Version 3.5 SP1
• VS 2008 Service Pack 1 - Docs and Installation