In case you haven't seen it - Enterprise Library 3.0 has been released.

There are a ton of new features. Most of these are additive.

• Validation Application Block - this allows you to centralize your validation rules and validate data from anywhere in your application. This means that through config - you can use the exact same validation in your smart client, ASP.NET, server side and so on.
• Policy Injection Application Block - Provides a powerful approach for separating cross-cutting concerns from business logic using declarative policies that are attached at runtime to methods on your objects.
• Application Block Software Factory - Dramatically simplifies the process of building application blocks and providers through the magic of guidance automation.
• Visual Studio-integrated Configuration Editor - great improvements on the config editor and VS.NET integration.
• Environmental Overrides - Use the configuration tool to specify configuration settings that are common or different across multiple environments, and merge this information into configuration files to be deployed with your applications.
• WCF Integration - This is a bigger deal that it seams as we are now able to config the services layer o the Enterprise Libraries to talk to almost anything through Windows Communication Foundation. This has implications on the Logging, Exception Handling and Validation Application Blocks.
• Pre-compiled, strong-named binaries. No need to compile and strong name the code unless you want to manage and evolve the code yourself.

Check out Tom Hollander's blog for a more compete write-up.

Link to patterns & practices – Enterprise Library

Friday, April 06, 2007 3:03:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 
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