Design of Enterprise Library

Enterprise Library incorporates a set of best practices in its overall design. Among these are the following:

• It uses common application block functionality (the Enterprise Library Core).
• It uses uniform conventions for naming and versioning.
• It incorporates instrumentation into all application blocks.
• It uses unit tests written during the design phase.

The section describes the design of Enterprise Library and includes the following topics:

• Design Patterns. This topic describes the use of design patterns within Enterprise Library.
• The Enterprise Library Core. This topic describes the Enterprise Library Core, including the configuration system.
• Providers. This topic describes the use of providers to implement extensibility.
• Design Time Configuration. This topic describes the design-time configuration features of Enterprise Library.
• The Dependency Injection Model. This topic describes the dependency injection mechanism used by Enterprise Library to instantiate objects and manage their lifetimes.
• Instrumentation. This topic describes the implementation of instrumentation within Enterprise Library.
• Group Policy Support. This topic describes Group Policy support using the Manageable Configuration Source.
• Unit Tests. This topic describes the use of unit tests within Enterprise Library.