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Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 released!

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Friends, I am extremely excited to announce the release of the Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008. Congratulations to the team!

Quick Links:

– MSDN site: https://msdn.microsoft.com/entlib

– Community Forum: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119312

– Community Extensions: https://codeplex.com/entlibcontrib

What is Enterprise Library?

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

Goals for Enterprise Library

Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks intended for use by developers who build complex, enterprise-level applications. Enterprise Library is used when building applications that are typically to be deployed widely and to interoperate with other applications and systems. In addition, they generally have strict security, reliability, and performance requirements. The goals of Enterprise Library are the following:

Consistency. All Enterprise Library application blocks feature consistent design patterns and implementation approaches.

Extensibility. All application blocks include defined extensibility points that allow developers to customize the behavior of the application blocks by adding their own code.

Ease of use. Enterprise Library offers numerous usability improvements, including a graphical configuration tool, a simpler installation procedure, and clearer and more complete documentation and samples.

Integration. Enterprise Library application blocks are designed to work well together or individually.

What’s New in v4.0?

This release of Enterprise Library includes the following:

– Integration with the Unity Application Block

– Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 2.0 support and improved instrumentation

– Performance improvements (particularly, in the Logging Application Block)

– Pluggable Cache Managers

– Visual Studio 2008 support

– Bug fixes

Note: existing public APIs (v3.1) are still supported.

The Application Block Software Factory and the Strong Naming Guidance Package are not included in this release but are available as a separate download. Thus, there is no longer a dependency on Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX).

For the detailed list of all changes, see About This Release of Enterprise Library.

Enterprise Library by Numbers:

2003

Year when the first application block was released

2005

Year when v1 of Enterprise library was released.

1,290,000

Total number of downloads of Enterprise Library since the first release.

»470,000

Total number of visits to the community site (since Dec 2006 when the Codeplex site was launched)

»1,600

Number of discussion threads on the community site

54%

NPS (Net Promoter Score)

6

Number of Enterprise Library releases (v1.0, v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, v3.1, v4.0)

9

Number of Application blocks in Enterprise Library 4.0

19

Number of weekly iterations to build Enterprise Library 4.0

401

Number of interim builds of Enterprise Library 4.0

»900

Number of pages of documentation in V4.0

»8,000

Number of automated tests cases in V4.0

»100,000

Number of executable lines of code in V4.0

Getting Started

If you are new to the Enterprise Library:

− read the Introduction to the Enterprise Library;

− download, compile and run the QuickStart samples—study the code;

− read through the related QuickStart Walkthroughs and “Key Scenarios” sections of the documentation;

− practice the Hands-On Labs;

− join the webcast in June 2008 (the exact date will be announced on the Enterprise Library landing page).

If you already know and love the Enterprise Library:

− check out the change log for this release;

− upgrade to V4.0—no code change is required—simply update the references to the corresponding application block assemblies and to the common assemblies;

− download the updated QuickStarts and run through the Unity-integrated examples to get the flavor of new dependency injection style of using the Enterprise Library;

− join the webcast in June 2008 (I’ll announce the exact date later).

Happy Coding!

Information on Microsoft patterns & practices

– Visit us at https://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ to see the full line of existing patterns & practices.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    Grigori has announced that Enterprise Library 4.0 has shipped . You can get EntLib 4 here . I have been

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    It's almost exactly a year since I handed in the keys to the Enterprise Library bus, but I'm still as

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2008
    @Ripamount There are no breaking changes to the public API. That was one of the design goals of EL4. Just remember EL4 requires .NET3.5. --Grigori

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2008
    The Enterprise Library 4.0 (May 2008) final release is now available to download . These are some of

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2008
    Enterprise Library 4.0 - May 2008 - RTM HURA ! RTM , see ? http://www.codeplex.com/entlib/Release/ProjectReleases

  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2008
    Grigori Melnik Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visu (소식)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2008
    P&P/Design Patterns I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2008
    Microsoft as released Enterprise Library 4.0. You can download it here: http://www.codeplex.com/entlib

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2008
    If you have not heard the announcement elsewhere, Enterprise Library 4.0 from patterns & practices

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2008
    If you have not heard the announcement elsewhere, Enterprise Library 4.0 from patterns & practices

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2008
    I'm new with .NET and wanted to give it a try to EL, and found out there is a new version. Does it work with VS 2005?

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2008
    @luislobo No, V4 only works with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 V3.1 is for Visual Studio 2005. -- Grigori

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2008
    微软发布了支持VisualStudio2008的新版本EnterpriseLibrary4.0，同时也发布了他们的依赖注入容器Unity应用程序块的1.1版本。 模式与实践团队的产品经理Gr...