May
18th,
2010
Available to this address the newest version of the Enterprise Library. Among the updates, the most interesting (imm&ho):
- Asynchronous data access support
- Optimized cache scavenging
- Support for the .NET 4.0 Framework and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Integration with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) validation mechanisms
- Major architectural refactoring that provides improved testability and maintainability through full support of the dependency injection style of development
while other features are:
- Dependency injection container independence (Unity ships with Enterprise Library, but you can replace it with a container of your choice)
- Programmatic configuration support, including a fluent configuration interface and an XSD schema to enable IntelliSense
- Redesign of the configuration tool to provide:
- A more usable and intuitive look and feel
- Extensibility improvements through meta-data driven configuration visualizations that replace the requirement to write design time code
- A wizard framework that can help to simplify complex configuration tasks
- Data accessors for more intuitive processing of data query results
- Honoring validation attributes between Validation Application Block and DataAnnotations
- Support for complex configuration scenarios, including additive merge from multiple configuration sources and hierarchical merge
- Better performance when logging
- A reduction of the number of assemblies
- Support for the .NET 4.0 Framework and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Improvements to Unity
If you don’t know about the Enterprise Library: we are talking about a group of libraries that abstract operations performed daily by almost developers in the world, for example DataAccess, Logging, Validation, Dependency Injection, Unit Test