Enterprise Library

Introduction

The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development cross-cutting concerns (such as logging, validation, data access, exception handling, and many others). Application blocks are a type of guidance; they are provided as source code, test cases, and documentation that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on complex, enterprise-level line-of-business development projects.

Community Resources

Web Pages

• Enterprise Library on MSDN
• Online Community

Blogs

• Enterprise Library Extensibility
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure

Forums

• ASP.NET Forums - Microsoft Patterns and Practices EntLib - Discuss the various Patterns & Practices Application Blocks and the Enterprise Library.

Technical Articles

• The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 1 (MSDN Magazine, July 2005)
• The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 2 (MSDN Magazine, August 2005)
• The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3 (MSDN Magazine, October 2005)

See Also

NOTE: the following links are external to TechNet Wiki.

• Get Logging with the Enterprise Library (The Code Project, 5 October 2005)
• Using the Enterprise Library (June 2005) with Visual Studio 2005 (The Code Project, 29 December 2005)
• Using the Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block – Part I (The Code Project, 5 August 2009)
• Using the Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block – Part II (The Code Project, 7 August 2009)
• Create Custom Application Block Using .NET Enterprise Library (The Code Project, 21 October 2009)

Credits

Thanks to Luigi Bruno for contributing this article.