Enterprise Library 2.0

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.

Enterprise Library features new and updated versions of application blocks that were previously available as stand-alone application blocks. All Enterprise Library application blocks have been updated with a particular focus on consistency, extensibility, ease of use, and integration.

Tampa Architects Group EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Presentation

I will be speaking in Tampa at the end of the month.

posted @ Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:37 PM | Feedback (0)

Unity 2 and Unity 2 for Silverlight Released

Unity 2 and Unity 2 for Silverlight have been released on Microsoft Downloads. Thanks to those who attended my presentation last night!!

posted @ Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:28 PM | Feedback (0)

Presenting Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 at Sarasota .NET Developer Group

Presenting EntLib 5 and Unity 2 in Sarasota next week.

posted @ Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:27 PM | Feedback (0)

Download Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2

Both have been released as RTM.

posted @ Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:42 AM | Feedback (0)

Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams

Diagrams for Visual Studio 2010.

posted @ Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:51 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads

EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Released for Download.

posted @ Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:50 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5 Configuration Editor for Unity 2

Taking the GUI editor for a spin for the first time with Unity.

posted @ Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Download Unity 2 and Enterprise Library 5 Beta 1

Time to start playing with the beta 1 release.

posted @ Monday, February 08, 2010 11:06 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5 DAAB Tutorials

A handful of Enterprise Library 5 DAAB Tutorials. Some interesting changes.

posted @ Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:34 PM | Feedback (0)

Unity 2 Examples

A couple of examples on Unity 2.

posted @ Sunday, January 24, 2010 8:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5 DAAB - DatabaseExtensions Class and DAAB Accessors

Some cool changes to the Data Access Application Block in EntLib 5.0.

posted @ Friday, December 18, 2009 6:50 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5 Configuration Editor Preview

Can't get over how much the config editor has changed.

posted @ Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:20 PM | Feedback (0)

Presenting ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and Enterprise Library and Unity

Presenting two talks at SouthWest Florida Code Camp this weekend!!!

posted @ Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:51 AM | Feedback (0)

Data Access Guidance - Microsoft Patterns & Practices

Expect this to be discussed at the Day of Patterns & Practices as well as the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group!!

posted @ Friday, July 24, 2009 10:24 AM | Feedback (0)

Custom ActionFilter in ASP.NET MVC with EntLib Logging Application Block

Sample ASP.NET MVC ActionFilter using Logging Application Block.

posted @ Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:02 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library and Unity Deep-Dive Presentation at IASA Tampa in May

See you at the IASA Tampa meeting on May 28!

posted @ Sunday, May 03, 2009 7:34 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library Videos - New DAAB Screencast

Based on popular demand, a 23 minute screencast introducing the Data Access Application Block with and without Unity.

posted @ Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:57 PM | Feedback (0)

Presenting Enterprise Library Tips & Techniques in Lakeland Florida on April 21

Presenting EntLib and more goodies in Lakeland on April 21!

posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:10 PM | Feedback (0)

Prism v2.0 Released - Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

Download the new release.

posted @ Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:29 PM | Feedback (0)

Presenting Enterprise Library and Unity in Ft. Myers Florida

posted @ Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:10 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 5.0 Request for Input on Application Blocks

'Tis that time of the year again...

posted @ Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:11 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block and Stored Procedures in Your Data Access Layer

Should we be seeing custom code anymore?

posted @ Friday, December 19, 2008 4:17 PM | Feedback (0)

RemotingPolicyInjector and Interception Extension Screencast - Unity Samples

Interested in AOP Style Development with Unity IoC? In this screencast I discuss the fundamentals of what's coming in Unity v1.2.

posted @ Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:10 AM | Feedback (0)

Validation Application Block and Unity Screencast - Enterprise Library 4.0

PnPGuidance screencast showing how to use the Validation Application Block with Unity in Enterprise Library 4.0. Hope it helps :)

posted @ Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:31 PM | Feedback (0)

EntLib 4.0 Data Access Application Block and Unity Screencast

The first screencast on Enterprise Library 4.0, which covers using the Data Access Application Block with Unity.

posted @ Friday, May 23, 2008 12:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 4.0 Data Access Application Block ( DAAB ) and Unity IoC Tutorial - DataAccessBlockExtension

Quick tutorial on how to get the Enterprise Library 4.0 Data Access Application Block to work with Unity.

posted @ Monday, May 19, 2008 12:19 AM | Feedback (0)

Download Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 - Unity IoC - Enterprise Library Tutorials

Congratulations to the Enterprise Library Team for their release of Enterprise Library 4.0. A few enhancements and bug fixes in this release, but most importantly it comes with Unity IoC Integration.

posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 11:34 PM | Feedback (0)

Unity 1.0 Released - Patterns & Practices IoC Container

posted @ Friday, April 04, 2008 8:33 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 4.0 Download of March 2008 CTP Available

posted @ Monday, March 31, 2008 8:40 PM | Feedback (0)

Unity Dependency Injection and Open Generic Types

posted @ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:27 PM | Feedback (0)

Unity and Enterprise Library 4.0 and Prism ... OH MY!

posted @ Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:44 PM | Feedback (0)

Simple Web Application Block Gets Unity Dependency Injection Support - Abstractions Are Good!

posted @ Friday, February 15, 2008 12:41 PM | Feedback (0)

ASP.NET MVC Framework and Unity Dependency Injection Container Part II

posted @ Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:34 AM | Feedback (0)

Unity Dependency Injection Container and ASP.NET MVC Framework

posted @ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:18 AM | Feedback (0)

Unity Dependency Injection Container Released on CodePlex - Feb 2008 CTP

posted @ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:09 AM | Feedback (0)

SQLSaturday - SQL Server Data Access Tips and Techniques with David Hayden - Tampa Florida

posted @ Sunday, February 10, 2008 12:07 PM | Feedback (0)

ASP.NET MVC Framework and Session State via StateValue from WCSF

posted @ Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:04 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 4.0 - Excited About Dependency Injection Application Block with PIAB

posted @ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:15 PM | Feedback (0)

PnPGuidance Update

posted @ Friday, November 23, 2007 3:57 PM | Feedback (0)

Presenting in Tampa on October 18th - Repository Factory, Enterprise Library, Guidance Bundles

posted @ Monday, October 01, 2007 1:01 PM | Feedback (0)

Microsoft Patterns and Practices April 2007 DVD Released

posted @ Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:32 PM | Feedback (0)

Web Client Software Factory and Enterprise Library 3.1 Sample Available for Download

posted @ Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:08 PM | Feedback (0)

ObjectBuilder is Getting Some Love for the CodePlex Container

posted @ Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:41 PM | Feedback (0)

Patterns and Practices Contribution Projects - Enterprise Library, Smart Client, Web Client

posted @ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Smart Client Software Factory v2 Released - Includes Enterprise Library 3.1

posted @ Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:59 PM | Feedback (0)

Policy Injection Application Block and ASP.NET Caching Screencast

posted @ Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:57 AM | Feedback (0)

Logging to Database Sample Download - Enterprise Library 3.0 Logging Application Block

posted @ Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:02 PM | Feedback (0)

DatabaseConfigurationView Class in Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block - Read Database Connection Strings and Configuration

posted @ Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:46 PM | Feedback (0)

Reading Connection Strings in Web.Config and App.Config and Enterprise Library DAAB Settings

posted @ Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:31 PM | Feedback (0)

Typed DataSets and Data Access Application Block ( DAAB ) - Enterprise Library Tutorials

A question that comes up often is - Can you use Typed DataSets with the Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block? The answer is yes and here is how you do it...

posted @ Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:58 PM | Feedback (1)

Using Enterprise Library DAAB and Microsoft Access 2007 via ODBC and OLEDB - Connection Strings and ADO.NET

The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block can connect to any database that has a .NET Data Provider. One of the common questions is - “Does Enterprise Library support Microsoft Access?“ The answer is yes! You can use OLEDB or ODBC to connect to the Microsoft Access Database using the Data Access Application Block. In this article I show both ways...

posted @ Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:16 PM | Feedback (0)

Application Block Software Factory - Enterprise Library 3.0 - Build Custom Application Blocks

posted @ Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:14 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library Validation Application Block Revealed

posted @ Monday, November 27, 2006 3:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 3.0 Plan

posted @ Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:08 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 DAAB and Encrypting ConnectionStrings in App.Config

posted @ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:22 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 3.0 Feature Prioritization Survey

posted @ Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:39 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 DAAB - Retrieving PK and Timestamp When Inserting New Record

I was answering a number of questions on the Enterprise Library 2.0 DAAB Message Board today, and this one was worth a blog post since the question comes up a lot in various forums. Although I am showing this using Enterprise Library 2.0 DAAB, the answer applies to SqlClient as well. Let's say you're inserting a new customer row in the Customers Table and you want to retrieve the PK and Timestap ( Rowversion ) of the row..

posted @ Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:53 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Patch for Partial Trust Environments - Shared ASP.NET Hosts

posted @ Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:08 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 3.0

posted @ Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:08 PM | Feedback (0)

ActiveRecord Pattern and Layer Supertype - Domain Model and Domain-Driven Design

posted @ Sunday, June 11, 2006 10:06 PM | Feedback (0)

Saving and Retrieving Images From SQL Server Using DAAB

posted @ Friday, May 19, 2006 11:16 AM | Feedback (1)

Sarasota .NET Developer MSDN Event - CodeSmith - .netTiers - Generate Data Access Layer using Enterprise Library DAAB

posted @ Friday, May 12, 2006 5:51 PM | Feedback (0)

Hands On Labs - Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 - C# and VB.NET

posted @ Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:01 PM | Feedback (0)

SqlCacheDependency using DAAB and SQL Server 2005 - Enterprise Library 2.0

posted @ Sunday, April 30, 2006 4:09 PM | Feedback (0)

Data Access Application Block - Reduce ADO.NET Code in Your Applications

posted @ Saturday, April 01, 2006 5:37 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 and SMO Tutorials and Resources - Orlando CodeCamp Presentations

posted @ Monday, March 27, 2006 11:46 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 DAAB and ADO.NET 2.0 Batch Updates Feature

posted @ Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Rolling File Trace Listener Extension for Enterprise Library 2.0

posted @ Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:56 PM | Feedback (0)

Hashing Passwords Using Enterprise Library 2.0 Cryptography Application Block - SHA1Managed Hash Provider

posted @ Sunday, March 05, 2006 12:32 PM | Feedback (0)

DPAPI - Encrypt and Decrypt Data Using the Data Protection API

posted @ Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:58 PM | Feedback (0)

SecureString - System.Security.SecureString Class - Encrypting Strings in Memory in .NET 2.0 Framework

posted @ Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:44 PM | Feedback (0)

Cryptography Application Block in Enterprise Library 2.0 - Symmetric Encryption Providers - RijndaelManaged ( AES ) - Part I

posted @ Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:26 PM | Feedback (0)

Caching Application Block - Enterprise Library 2.0 - IsolatedStorage and Database Caching

posted @ Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:13 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Logging Application Block Part IV - Conclusion - Free .NET Tutorials and Examples

posted @ Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:31 AM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Logging Application Block Part III - Programmatically Using Logging Application Block With No Configuration File

posted @ Saturday, February 18, 2006 2:12 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Logging Application Block Part II - Simple ASP.NET 2.0 Website Example - Logging Unhandled Exceptions

posted @ Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:39 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Logging Application Block Part I - TraceListeners

posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:22 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Extension Pack

posted @ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:39 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Configuration Tool - Configuring Data Access Application Block

posted @ Monday, January 23, 2006 2:46 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Released - Application Blocks by Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group

posted @ Friday, January 20, 2006 4:58 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Data Access Application Block

posted @ Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 - From Configuration Block to IConfigurationSource - SystemConfigurationSource - FileConfigurationSource

posted @ Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:17 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 Architecture Webcast

posted @ Friday, January 06, 2006 11:23 PM | Feedback (0)

Enterprise Library 2.0 December Update - Interim Community Drop

posted @ Friday, December 02, 2005 6:39 PM | Feedback (0)

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