I’m ashamed to say I’ve been hyping EntLib, but I haven’t really done much more than install it. After the presentation last night I popped open a new C# project and within about 15 minutes had a win form that incorporated the Configuration, Database, and Logging blocks of EntLib. Having some exposure to the EntLib predecessor, ACA.Net (and the presentation last night), I was amazed at how little I had to look things up in the Docs or fumble with the code.
Last night I attended the CINNUG meeting and heard a great overview presentation about Enterprise Library. The talk was given by Doug Rohrer (an ex-fellow employee who is still working for Avanade). Due to his employer Doug has been working with the Pre releases of Enterprise Library for several months now, and that doesn’t include his exposure to the EntLib predecessor ACA.Net. The overview was really good and he showed some code from all the blocks I think.
There is a security update for both versions of the .Net Framework out on the Windows Update site. I would recommend looking into getting this onto your web servers, but I want to provide a warning that it may disrupt development on some development machines. In some cases, after applying this update, developers have been unable to initialize debugging for ASP.Net. They get some strange message saying “can’t debug this application”, or something similar.