Edit: This content applies only to the 1.x (January 2005 and June 2005) releases of Enterprise Library. Instrumentation behaves differently in the 2.x (January 2006) release. Much of this has already been discussed in other forums, but there seems...

I don't know if it's the onset of spring (or autumn, depending on your hemisphere), but judging from the number of mails I've received on this topic in the last few weeks, it seems that everyone is trying to make the Enterprise Library configuration system...

A few weeks ago I posted an article describing how my current team built a publish/subscribe message bus using WCF and MSMQ . At that time we had only deployed the application in a single-server test environment. While there were a few tricks to getting...

Here we go again – another Data Access Application Block (DAAB). Those of you who have been following our team and using our stuff for a while probably know that DAAB was the first code-based deliverable that we produced, and was also the first ever ...

When you install Enterprise Library 3.0, you actually get two distinct copies of the library. One copy is in the form of pre-compiled binaries - by default these get installed to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Enteprise Library 3.0 - April 2007\bin". The...

I'm sitting at home, still slowly digesting turkey, watching the snow fall outside the window, and trying to deal with the prospect of the imminent full work week. But while the 4 day weekend has definitely been a welcome break, the next week should actually...

In recent years there has been a lot of talk about event-driven architecture as a technique to build more scalable and maintainable systems. I've found this to be a very interesting pattern that makes sense in a number of scenarios, but it's never been...

We're getting ready to start the planning process for the next release of Enterprise Library which will target .NET Framework 3.0. In case you missed it, .NET Framework 3.0 is the new name for what used to be known as .NET Framework 2.0 combined with...

Yes, it's finally here. The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce the official release of Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007 for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0. Highlights of this Release If you've been keeping up with the Community...

The patterns & practices team is pleased to announce that the first public drop of the Web Service Software Factory is now available from our new community site at http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/svcfactory . We're looking forward to having...

So now that Enterprise Library has been out for 2 weeks, I'm assuming that you're all experts now :-). So what better time than now to start thinking about what you'd like to see in vNext. The next version will target .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio...

Bubble Charts are a great way to visualise data that has three numerical values for each point. Two of the values are plotted on the X and Y axis, while the other is represented via the diameter of the bubble. Excel also supports Bubble Charts with...

If you'd planned to spend the Christmas holidays drinking beer, watching cricket and eating way too much (or whatever it is that you normally do at this time of the year in your part of the world), I've got some bad news for you. We've just released the...

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Enterprise Library 3.0, we have one last surprise in store: a new application block! The Policy Injection Application Block got off to a late start, but we're making good progress now and...

Welcome back! In Part 1 of this tale , we'd successfully configured a WCF client and an IIS-hosted service to communicate via MSMQ on the same machine. But we're only half done. As you may recall, our goal here is to deploy the client, service and queues...

Previously, in MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice: In Part 1 , we built a client and IIS-hosted service application and got them communicating over MSMQ using WCF's NetMsmqBinding. In Part 2 , we deployed the same application across...

Thanks again to everyone who shared their ideas and priorities for the next release of Enterprise Library in the posts and surveys we ran earlier. We went through all of the responses, and also considered a bunch of additional factors such as technical...

I know a few people have been waiting to hear our team's thoughts on Loren Halvorson's comparision of the Enterprise Library Logging & Instrumentation Application Block and Log4Net . So here goes... First, let me state that we do not consider Enterprise...

One of the coolest new capabilities we're building for Enterprise Library v3 is the Application Block Software Factory. As its name ever-so-subtly suggests, this will be a software factory for building your own application blocks. We'll be including an...

December is here, and I know that a lot of you are getting anxious for an update on Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. So here’s the latest: We are now code complete on all blocks (with the exception of Cryptography), including all of the designtime...

Today I’d like to talk about a few of the key changes we are planning in the Logging & Instrumentation Application Block which will be included in Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0. A lot of this will probably make more sense once we release the preview...

Working on technical documentation can seem like a bit of a thankless task at times. When it is done poorly, everybody will complain loudly about it. On the other hand, if it is done well, most people don't think about it at all. So overall I am taking...

The patterns & practices team is please to announce the availability of the June 2006 CTP of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) ! As reported previously , this is a relatively minor update to the previous...

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party here - but better late than never! There are a couple of really cool community extensions to the Enterprise Library configuration tool that should be of interest to a lot of you. First, Olaf Conijn has updated his...

As more people start using Enterprise Library, a lot of people are starting to ask some great questions about the best way to manage this resource within their organizations. Even though we designed EntLib to be used on projects in large organizations...