Enterprise Library 2.0 has been released by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group ( Download here )
From the website:
“The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0.
Enterprise Library–January 2006 contains the following general purpose application blocks:
- Caching Application Block. With this application block, developers can incorporate a local cache in their applications.
- Cryptography Application Block. With this application block, developers can incorporate hashing and symmetric encryption in their applications.
- Data Access Application Block. With this application block, developers can incorporate standard database functionality in their applications.
- Exception Handling Application Block. With this application block, developers and policy makers can create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions that occur throughout the architectural layers of enterprise applications.
- Logging Application Block. With this application block, developers can include standard logging functionality in their applications.
- Security Application Block. With this application block, developers can incorporate authorization and security caching functionality in their applications.
Enterprise Library also includes a set of core functions, including configuration, instrumentation, and object builder services. These functions are used by all other application blocks.“
Stay tuned to my blog as I have already talked about IConfiguration in Enterprise Library 2.0 and the Enterprise Library 2.0 Data Access Application Block. A lot more to follow this upcoming week.
Source: David Hayden ( Florida .NET Developer )