Grigori, Program Manager of Enterprise Library at Microsoft Patterns & Practices has published the prioritized backlog for V5. He explains in details the procedure that has taken place to select items we’ll be working on. It is impressive how Microsoft has turned to the community to get feedback: blog posts, advisory board, events, Codeplex, MSDN, …

It also exciting to see how many of you answered the survey. It shows that Enterprise Library provides great value to many of us and that we should continue working with this interesting beast.

If you have a look at the backlog, you’ll see that we’ll spend much time trying to simplify the EntLib story. Whether it’s through Architecture refactoring, documentation, labs, the story should become clearer to understand and easier to tell. It will also likely embrace new technologies like WPF and WCF.

Go have a look! With previous versions, there was a weekly drop on Codeplex. You should get some bits of V5 sooner than later as we’ve already started an iteration!

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