Enterprise Library 3.0 (April 2007) Goodness
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Einstein I'm working on a migration of an Application Framework from EntLib 2.0 to Enterprise Library 3.0 (April 2007) for a big client, and I'm quite impressed with Enterprise Library 3.0. This has gotten to the point where it is much more mature, and now sports some very AOP-ish bits with Policy Injection and Validation that really are nicely done -- and extensible. This is reminiscent of some of the GAT work with dependency injection that Daniel Cazzulino and Victor Aprea were doing a little over a year ago when I talked with them at the 2005 MVP Summit. There are still a few rough edges, namely that WCSF integration (coming late May to a machine near you) is not complete. However, some developers, such as David Hayden , can't wait, and David has done his own integration (probably cursing all along the way) which you can download. I can see a growing tide of d...