ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET Social 1.0.0 (as well as adapters for the Dropbox API and the Twitter API) is now available (and LinkedIn API support is in progress!).

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that helps you connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, and more! It offers an extensible service provider framework (including support for OAuth1 and OAuth2) that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.

Spring.NET Social supports the following runtime environments:

• .NET 2.0
• .NET Client Profile 3.5 and 4.0
• Silverlight 4.0 and 5.0
• Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1

Spring.NET Social Home Page
Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support (pre-release) Home Page

Want to contribute? There's a rich universe of Social platforms for which Spring.NET Social support can be easily extended and we're actively looking for community contributors interested in adding projects to support Facebook, TripIt, GitHub, and many more!

These projects are hosted at GitHub:

• Spring.NET Social
• Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support
• Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support
• Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2012-01-25]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET REST Client 1.1.0 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

In addition to several bug-fixes, the 1.1.0 release of Spring.NET REST Client adds the following new features:

• .NET 4 TPL (Task-Parallel Library) Support
• Silverlight 5 support
• REST testing framework

This project is hosted at GitHub.

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2012-01-25]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET REST Client 1.0.2 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

Spring.NET REST Client is a lightweight library (~60k-80k, depending on your target platform) that has no direct dependency on the Spring.NET Framework. It can be used either by itself in isolation or in combination with the remainder of the Spring.NET Framework to suit different usage scenarios.

In addition to several bug-fixes, the 1.0.2 release of Spring.NET REST Client adds the following:

• .NET Compact Framework 3.5 support
• Windows Phone 7.1 support

This project is hosted at GitHub.

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-11-11]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.2 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

This release contains the following new major features:

• Initial ASPNET MVC 3 Integration for core DI capabilites
• Native .NET 4 compilation assemblies
• Support for NHibernate 3.2 GA release
• Over 50 bug fixes and other improvements

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

[2011-08-02]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring.NET Visual Studio 2010 Extension 1.0.1 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

This release of the Spring.NET Visual Studio 2010 Extension improves Intellisense support by adding the following capabilities for editing Spring XML configuration files:

• Property name completion for types in referenced libraries and projects

For a comprehensive list of project resources including source code, forums, and more, see the project SpringBoard page at http://springframework.net/vsaddin/

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-07-28]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET CodeConfig 1.0.1 is now available.

Download | NuGet Package | Support | Documentation | Community

Note also that Spring.NET CodeConfig is also available as a NuGet Package.

This release contains several minor bug-fixes as well as the following major changes:

• Explicit support for .NET4 (with corresponding dependency on the .NET4 release of Spring.NET 1.3.1)
• Elimination of the option to specify variable scan-paths for Assembly Scanning

This project is hosted at GitHub and is the first step in the process of expanding Spring.NET's support for non-XML-dependent configuration scenarios.

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-04-27]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET REST Client 1.0.0 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

Spring.NET REST Client is a lightweight library (~60k-80k, depending on your target platform) that has no direct dependency on the Spring.NET Framework. It can be used either by itself in isolation or in combination with the remainder of the Spring.NET Framework to suit different usage scenarios.

The 1.0.0 release of Spring.NET REST Client contains:

• A RestTemplate class for client-side access to RESTful services
• A set of HTTP message converters used to marshal objects into the HTTP request body and to unmarshal any response back into an object.

Spring.NET REST Client supports all of the following .NET Runtime environments

• .NET 2.0
• .NET Client Profile 3.5 and 4.0
• Silverlight 3.0 and 4.0
• Windows Phone 7.0

This project is hosted at GitHub.

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-04-14]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring.NET Visual Studio 2010 Extension 1.0.0 is now available.

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

This release of the Spring.NET Visual Studio 2010 Extension provides Intellisense support in the following areas for editing Spring XML configuration files:

• Type completion
• Property name completion
• Constructor argument name completion
• Property value completion for property of type 'Type', 'Enum' and 'Boolean'

In addition, this release also provides for the following enhancements to the Visual Studio 2010 XML Editor experience:

• Snippets integration (inline or by menu)
• Quickinfo tooltip for properties and types

A brief screencast of this tool in action can be watched here.

This project is hosted at GitHub.

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-04-06]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET CodeConfig 1.0.0 is now available.

Download | NuGet Package | Support | Documentation | Community

Note also that Spring CodeConfig for .NET is also available as a NuGet Package.

This release contains the following major features:

• Code-based configuration similar to the @Configuration support in Spring Java
• Declarative Assembly Scanning to detect Configuration Classes
• Support for mixing and matching Code-based and XML-based configuration metadata
• Extension Methods to support Code-Based Configuration on existing Application Contexts
• Bootstrapping the Context configuration from either Code-First or XML-First approaches

This project is hosted at GitHub and is the first step in the process of expanding Spring.NET's support for non-XML-dependent configuration scenarios.

The next steps for this project include the following:

• Definition of additional elements such as Aspects and ValueResolvers
• Convention/Rule-based Object Definitions, Registrations, Aspects, PointCuts, and JoinPoints
• Fluent Object Definition API

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

[2011-04-05]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the initial basic Spring.NET 1.3.1 packages are now available via the NuGet Package Management System.

The following Packages are now available:

• Spring.Core
• Spring.Aop

We have also made the corresponding DEBUG builds of these same packages available on NuGet as well. Since NuGet does not inherently support (yet!) a single package containing both RELEASE and DEBUG builds of a single logical package, we are following the convention of appending the RELEASE package name with the ".Debug" suffix as follows:

• Spring.Core.Debug
• Spring.Aop.Debug

This is merely the initial step in making all of the Spring.NET Framework available in NuGet. Coming soon will be packages for the following additional higher-level components of the Spring.NET Framework as well:

• Spring.Data
• Spring.Data.NHibernate
• Spring.Scheduling
• Spring.Messaging
• Spring.Web
• ...and more!

This packaging approach will permit users to download and consume the components of the overall Spring.NET Framework as they need them, increasing the granularity of our distribution process for those that wish to download the Spring.NET Framework incrementally rather than all at once.

As always, the complete Spring.NET Framework download(s) will continue to be made available for those that prefer the more comprehensive single-download of the complete release or aren't ready to adopt NuGet as a package manager as of yet.

Please direct all feedback you have from your experiences using these packages to the Spring.NET Community Forum. We look forward to your feedback as we explore the benefits of this new additional method of distributing Spring.NET to the community.

[2011-04-05]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.1 is now available.  

Download | Support | Documentation | Community

This release contains the following new major features:

• Namespace parser for WCF integration
• Initial ASPNET MVC 2 Integration for core DI capabilites
• Support for DI using WCF's WebServiceHostFactory
• Native .NET 4 compilation assemblies
• Support for switching among multiple databases at runtime when using NHibernate
• Support for NHibernate 3.0 GA release
• Upgrade of Quartz.NET support to version 1.0.3
• Upgrade of Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ support to version 1.4.1
• Over 100 bug fixes and other improvements

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, this will be the final release of Spring.NET offering support for .NET 1.x. Future releases of Spring.NET will target only .NET 2.0 and later, enabling Spring.NET to more aggressively take advantage of more of the recent capabilities within the .NET platform.

Moving forward we will also be experimenting with several ways to achieve a much more aggressive release schedule in 2011 and beyond. One part of this effort is targeting a quarterly release cycle for Spring.NET. The goal is to provide steadily-increasing value and capabilities to Spring.NET adopters moving forward without significant intervals between releases.

Another part of this effort involves moving (temporarily) the planned Code-Based Configuration support for Spring.NET into a project separate from Spring.NET itself so that it can iterate and evolve independently of the pace of the main Spring.NET trunk.

This project is hosted at GitHub and is expected to be released before the end of the year (within the next two weeks) and provide capabilities in line with the Java-based "@Configuration" annotation-based configuration capability.

After it's features have matured further, the Code-Based Configuration functionality will be folded back into the Spring.NET trunk and will again release as a component of the main Spring.NET core project.

Watch this site for an announcement and download link once the Code-Based Configuration project is released in next several weeks.

In the mean time, Happy Holidays!

[2010-12-14]

ANNOUNCEMENT:  

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring GemFire 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET!

Downloads | API Docs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring GemFire Homepage. There you will find links to the Reference Manual, Forum, Issue Tracker, and more.  

The features in 1.0.0 M1 for .NET include

• Spring FactoryObjects to enable dependency injection style configuration of GemFire infrastructure classes such as Cache, Region, Interests, etc.
• Exception translation to Spring's portable Data Access exception hierarchy for GemFire exceptions. 
• Console based 'shell' sample application to allow for ad-hoc interaction with the data grid.

Note the Java version has additional features.  The feature set for Spring GemFire for .NET M2 is on the issue tracker.

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

[2010-8-3]

ANNOUNCEMENT:  

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring AMQP 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET!

Download it now: Spring AMQP for Java | Spring AMQP for .NET

The Spring AMQP project aims to simplify the development of AMQP based applications with a POCO centric programming model.  It also aims to provide portability across AMQP implementations such as RabbitMQ and Apache Qpid.  

If you are familiar with Spring's existing messaging support for ActiveMQ, MSMQ, or TIBCO EMS Spring AMQP should be easy to pick up.

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring AMQP Homepage. There you will find links to the Reference Manual, Forum, Issue Tracker, and more.  

The features in 1.0.0 M1 include

• An AMQP implementation agnostic Message API for use across multiple implementations (RabbitMQ and Qpid)
• A POCO based programming model promoted through the use of MessageConverters and POCO based message handlers. 
• AmqpTemplate - with specific vendor subclasses - to simplify synchronous publishing and consuming of messages.
• A MessageListenerContainer for asynchronous multilthreaded message consumption.
• A ConnectionFactory abstraction manages a single connection to the broker and an experimental implementation that supports a cache of Channels
• JSON MessageConverter
• Administration API that mirrors functionality in rabbitmqctl.
• ErlangTemplate - to facilitate easy calling of Erlang functions from .NET
• Two example applications
• Reference and API documentation

Apache Qpid support is minimal in M1 and was used to vet the Messaging abstractions.

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

[2010-7-16]

UPCOMING NEW RELEASES:  With SpringSource's aquisition of Gemstone and Rabbit Technologies we have started open source projects to provide integration of data grid and AMQP messaging functionality with Spring.NET.

If you would like to participate in the development of these open-source projects, please reach out.  Note, the range of products to integrate is not limited to Gemstone/RabbitMQ. 

The Spring AMQP project aims to provide portability across AMQP specifications and vendor implementations such as RabbitMQ and QPid.

If you are familiar with Spring.NET's support for ActiveMQ, MSMQ, or TIBCO EMS you should feel right at home.  

Features include

• A POCO based programming model promoted through the use of MessageConverters and POCO based message handlers.
• AmqpTemplate - with specific vendor subclasses - to simplify synchronous publishing and consuming of messages.
• A MessageListenerContainer for asynchronous multilthreaded message consumption.
• Low level resource management of connections/channels and integration with Spring's declarative tranasaction management are also provided.
• Management API for the RabbitMQ broker to programmatically create, update, delete, and query broker configuration and information such as exchanges, queues, users, vhosts, data rates, etc.

The planned release date of Spring AMQP Milestone 1 is July 9th.  

You can view the code in the repostory here.  We will be moving to GIT shortly.

More news to come on Spring.NET integration with Gemstone products such as Gemfire and SQLFabric.


[2010-6-24]

USER GROUP:

Mathias Kluba, Florent Dugué & David Coppet spoke at the French Spring User Group about Spring.NET.  Slides and information are available here (in French). 

 [2010-6-22]

CODE CAMP:  Milan Negovan spoke at the NYC Code Camp on Real-World Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with WebForms.  Slides available here.

[2010-3-6]

PODCAST:

The Connected Show #24, Peter Laudati interviews Mark Pollack to discuss Spring.NET, Dependency Injection, Aspect-Oriented Programming and more.

• Connected Show -  Episode #24 - Addicted to Spring.NET

[2010-2-10]

INTERVIEW:

InfoQ's Ryan Slobojan interviews Mark Pollack on Spring.NET 1.3 and future directions for the framework.

• InfoQ Interview

[2010-2-11]

USER GROUP MEETING:  Milan Negovan spoke at the Long Island .NET Users Group on Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Spring.NET.  Code available here.

[2010-1-8]

FEATURED BLOG:  Erich Eichinger has posted several interesting blog articles on AOP, Application Monitoring and code based configuration of DI/AOP with Spring.NET.  

Here is a 'sneak peak' of the code based configuration using the classic MovieFinder example. A variation on this DI configuration style will be part of the Spring.NET 2.0 release.

[Configuration]
public class MovieFinderConfiguration 
{
 public virtual IMovieFinder MovieFinder() 
 {
 return new MovieFinder();
 }

 public virtual IMovieLister MovieLister()
 {
 return new MovieLister( MovieFinder() )
 }
}

As close to what you would have written in 'normal' code to configure the two objects.  Note, this code is external to your code, just like XML files are external to your code, therefore non-invasive.

This approach is taken from the Spring JavaConfig project, based on an idea from Rod Johnson.  This approach has matured and is included an a DI configuration option in the Spring Java 3.0 release. (blog, docs)

Please see Erich's blog for more details.


[2010-1-8]

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