Brian On Software

As some of you may have already heard, Enterprise Library 4.0 was released by the Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft.  You’ll be glad to know that the existing public APIs (EntLib v3.1) are still supported in this new release.  By the way, installing this version of Enterprise Library is much better than previous installations, as this one gives you the choice to extract AND build the different application blocks at the same time, instead of using a different installer to extract and build the source codes.  Furthermore, the Enterprise Library Configuration Tool is automatically integrated in Visual Studio 2008 upon installing this release of Enterprise Library.

The change log for this release is available here (highly recommended to read).  If you’re looking to upgrade your skills with Enterprise Library, I strongly suggest the Hands On Labs and the Getting Started tutorials for each of the application blocks.  Speaking of application blocks, this release gives us a new one: Unity.

For more information about Enterprise Library (resources, tutorials, news, etc.) I strongly recommend you referring to these sites:

• Grigori Melnik’s Blog
• Tom Hollander’s Blog

Feel free to add your sources of recommended sites to learn more about Enterprise Library.