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Recent Release - Composite Application Guidance for WPF
Streamline your WPF team development experience with the new Composite Application Guidance for WPF. With it, you'll build solutions that take advanta... More...

Recent Release - Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008
This release of Enterprise Library includes the new Unity Application Block, a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container with support for... More...

Recent Release - Unity Application Block 1.1
Unity is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers w... More...

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