January 2005 - Posts
As announced on the Enterprise Library workspace home, the long wait is now over. You can download the Enterprise Library (aka EntLib) 1.0 from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp
If you haven't already heard, Enterprise Library is basically the next generation of the Application Blocks concept from the Patterns & Practices group. Microsoft and Avanade focused on integrating what used to be isolated blocks into a consistent library of features which can be used, ignored or extended as necessary in your particular environment.
You should definitely take the time to download and look through what there is to offer in this release. The package includes all of the code (and unit tests!), so even if you don't plan on using the EntLib, you could certainly gain ideas from the documentation and code for your own implementations.
-Chris
I'm pleased to announce that I am now a member of the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Customer Advisory Board.
As you hopefully know, the Patterns & Practices group has been consistently publishing great stuff - patterns, guides, reference implementations (like ERDA/Shadowfax), webcasts, application blocks, etc. And of course, the Enterprise Library (coming soon!)
The Customer Advisory Board is a group of architects and technology leaders from a diverse set of companies. We will work with the P&P team, providing feedback and offering guidance to help them set priorities.
I will enjoy working more closely with the people in PAG like Ron Jacobs and Tom Hollander to help ensure that their work continues to be relevant, useful and directly applicable to customer needs.
-Chris