Tom Hollander from Microsoft Patterns & Practices group is asking for suggestions for what is to be in the Enterprise Library 3.0 release. Since Microsoft has announced .NET 3.0, the Patterns & Practices group would like to get a head start on the next release of the Enterprise Library.
To give guidelines, they are looking for suggestions in the following areas:
- New blocks (please specify what these blocks should do)
- New providers for existing blocks (please specify which blocks and what the providers should do)
- Integration with new WinFX features (which ones?)
- Changes to the internal architecture (what and why?)
- Better support for deployment or operations processes
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the configuration tool (such as?)
- Improvements to the documentation (such as?)
- New or improved samples or training materials
- Software factories or guidance packages to help you build blocks or providers
- VB version of the block source (oh please no!) -- My Emphasis
- ...anything else?
So, that is rather broad, which is encouraging. Feel free to let them know what you think!