Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.1

As a developer I always think a way to avoid writing same kind of code again and again. I think now of you like a repetitive task like this, Here comes the importance of code reusability. Writing same more or less same kind of code is not only boring but it's also inefficient and can lead to consistency and quality problems.

Microsoft’s patterns and practices community developed reusable, extendable and configurable code blocks and we all accepted it as Application blocks. The constantly improved application blocks together become Microsoft Enterprise library. When the time came to use the latest framework (2.0) in developing, highly efficient .Net applications, Enterprise library had changed its beauty adding lot of new stuff.




I am introducing the in and out or enterprise library 3.1 in the blog series. I am trying to explain you the complete architecture of Enterprise library with details on each of the following application blocks in it.

1.Data Access
2.Exception handling
3.Caching
4.Error Logging
5.Security
5.Cryptography


I hope you got a basic idea about what is enterprise library , let us make sure our learning about enterprise library from the following slide.



Slides provided are from MSDN : Patterns&practices