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Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released The patters & practices team has announced the release of the EntLib 4.0 March 2008 CTP . This release has been adapted to work with WMI version 2.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. Enterprise Library 4.0 has the Allow Partially-Trusted Caller attribute (APTCA) on all assemblies. This means that you can call the methods of Enterprise Library and the application blocks from an application running in a partial trust environment. You can do this...
Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB) and WCF The February Edition of MSDN Magazine was recently published with a great collection of articles: Roll Your Own: Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework Joel Pobar Silverlight: Create a Custom Expression Encoder Publishing Plug-In Laurence Moroney WF How-To: Building State Machines with Windows Workflow Foundation Keith Pijanowski Data Points: Designing an Entity Data Model John Papa Cutting Edge: Customize Controls...
Enterprise Library 3.5 for Visual Studio 2008 After releasing Enterprise Library 3.X last May, and starting the Enterprise Library Contrib project, the team is currently working on porting Enterprise Library to work with Visual Studio 2008. According to Grigori Melnik , this includes improving existing application blocks as well as guidance on how to use them. Melnik also mentions, that moving to Enterprise Library 3.5 does not include introducing new application blocks. No official date was provided...
EntLib Contrib is the community-driven open source project for extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library . Here's the quick list of everything in the September 2007 release ; for more detailed documentation follow the link above. Data Access Application Block extensions MySql, SqLite and SqlEx providers Exception Handling Application Block extensions SqlException Wrap Handler Logging Application Block extensions LogParser Policy Injection Application Block extensions PostSharp4EntLib...
Software Factories Support for Visual Studio 2008 Since the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 , and the release of GAT/GAX July CTP that supports it, many of us are waiting for updates regarding the support for the current software factories such as Web Service Software Factory , Smart Client Software Factory and Web Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008. I've already mentioned in an earlier post that currently there is not support for those factories in Visual Studio 2008, since it broke...
This post is a step by step guide on how to write a custom validator using Application Block Software Factory and integrate it in the configuration editor of Enterprise Library.
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Watch Enterprise Library Screencasts here......
Learn how to integrate WCF with Enterprise Library (Logging, Validation and Exception Handling)...
This screencast shows the basic usage of the Policy Injection Application Block through attributes and configuration....
This screencast shows how to configure validations using attributes or configuration, and talks about the integration of the Validation Application Block with other technologies....
I've posted about the WCF Integration with Validation Application Block and the integration with Exception Handling Application Block in the past, and the missing piece was the integration with the Logging Application Block . Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) has posted about this integration. In his post he explains the idea behind the integration and gives some configuration snippets that helps. If you're not familiar with the Logging Application Block , you can watch my screencast about it in here...
This screencast shows the API and configuration required for using the Exception Handling Application Block....
Nice features of the Logging Application Block....
Today, Memi Lavi , a Solution Architect from Microsoft Consulting Services and myself gave a session about Enterprise Library 3.0 . In this session we gave an introduction to the Enterprise Library - what it is, what it isn't, talked about the core architecture and the basic concepts every developer should be familiar with. We showed the Logging Application Block , Exception Handling Application Block , Validation Application Block with its integration with ASP.Net and WCF and Policy Injection Application...
I am giving a lecture about Enterprise Library 2.0 and 3.0 for a customer later this month, and spending the last few days building a demo application (Expect more details and posts about this later). I ran into a problem with the configuration tool the minute I started working with it: The configuration editor always place the assembly definitions of the assembly as signed assemblies. For example: < configSections > < section name = " loggingConfiguration " type = " Microsoft.Practices...
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