Enterprise Library 5

A wonderful set of tools from the patterns & practices command — The Enterprise Library is released in version five. For those that do not know, the Enterprise Library is an architectural block that implements the most frequent tasks in software development. Examples of such tasks: caching, logging, data validation. Probably the most popular part of the library is the Unity IoC container.

From the name Enterprise Library it is clear that the library is built in the most serious way and can be used for the most important tasks. For each unit, system performance counters can be installed.

Enterprise Library is an open source project under a free MSPL license. Source codes are supplied with the library or they can be downloaded separately.
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To conveniently configure all the parameters of each block, the convenient Enterprise Library Configuration tool is supplied with the library.

Enterprise Library 5 contains the following blocks: Caching Block, Cryptography Block, Data Access Block, Exception Handling Block, Logging Block, Policy Injection Block, Security Block, Validation Block, Unity.

In addition, the EntLinb Contrib community project contains a number of additional blocks and extensions.

References:
- Download Enterprise Library 5;
- project page on codeplex.com;
- documentation for the fifth release;
- release notes for the fifth release.