About the Book

Welcome to the era of software reuse! Microsoft Enterprise Library helps accelerate development by providing reusable components and guidance on proven practices. If you build applications that run on the Microsoft .NET Framework, whether they are enterprise-level business applications or even relatively modest Windows® Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or ASP.NET applications, you can benefit from using Enterprise Library. This guide helps you to quickly grasp what Enterprise Library can do for you, presents examples, and makes it easier for you to start experimenting with Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library is made up of a series of application blocks, each aimed at managing specific cross-cutting concerns.

About the Author

Alex Homer, well known author of many ASP.NET titles for Wrox Press and others. Nicolas Botto is a software engineer and development consultant based in Argentina. He has more than 10 years of experience in helping enterprise customers building scalable component frameworks and based on the .NET Framework since 2001. He currently spends much of his time working for Microsoft Corp helping the patterns & practices group in building useful stuff like tools, guidelines and application blocks for the worldwide community of developers. Bob Brumfield is a software developer at Microsoft with the patterns & practices team, primarily working on Prism, Enterprise Library and Web guidance projects. Prior to joining Microsoft, he focused on helping teams deliver Microsoft-based solutions as a consultant in the Colorado Rocky Mountain region. Bob has more than 15 years experience with professional software development and architecture. Grigori Melnik is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Enterprise Library and Acceptance Testing Guidance projects. Prior to that, Grigori was a researcher, software engineer, and educator long enough to remember the joy of programming in Fortran. His areas of expertise include agile methods, empirical software engineering, and software testing. Grigori is a regular contributor to software conferences around the world. He is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory board. Grigori holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada. Erik Renaud is an agile coach and co-founder of nVentive, a new concept where software development teams leverage coaching and guidance packages to build better software. His current mandates concentrate on large financial institutions creating new teams that directly support their primary activities. Erik has over 10 years of experience developing software, coaching teams to architect, model and analyze software solutions. He ultimately helps them develop the solution using cutting edge .net technologies and offers guidance packages that accelerate the development phase. He is a certified ScrumMaster, which helps him lead teams to success, and often offers training in object oriented technologies. Fernando Simonazzi is a software developer and architect with over 12 years of professional experience. He has been a contributor in several projects for Microsoft's patterns & practices group, including Prism v4 and several versions of the Enterprise Library. Chris Tavares is a development lead on the patterns & practices team, producing written and code-based guidance for .NET developers. For the last three years he's been the dev lead on the Enterprise Library project. As part of that role, Chris is the primary author of the Unity dependency injection container. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris was a trainer, consultant and contractor, worked on shrink-wrap software in several industries, and even did a short stint with embedded systems for the Navy.

Table of Contents:
Welcome to the Library · Section 1.1. Meet the Librarian · Section 1.2. What You Get with Enterprise Library · Section 1.3. Things You Can Do with Enterprise Library · Section 1.4. Why You Should Use Enterprise Library · Section 1.5. Some Fundamentals of Enterprise Library · Section 1.6. Configuring Enterprise Library · Section 1.7. The Example Applications · Section 1.8. Summary Much ADO about Data Access · Section 2.1. Introduction · Section 2.2. What Does the Data Access Application Block Do? · Section 2.3. How Do I Use the Data Access Block? · Section 2.4. Extending the Block to Use Other Databases · Section 2.5. Summary Error Management Made Exceptionally Easy · Section 3.1. Introduction · Section 3.2. When Should I Use the Exception Handling Block? · Section 3.3. How Do I Use the Exception Handling Block? · Section 3.4. What Exception Policies Do I Need? · Section 3.5. Diving in with a Simple Example · Section 3.6. Wrapping an Exception · Section 3.7. Replacing an Exception · Section 3.8. Logging an Exception · Section 3.9. Shielding Exceptions at WCF Service Boundaries · Section 3.10. Handling Specific Exception Types · Section 3.11. Executing Code around Exception Handling · Section 3.12. Assisting Administrators · Section 3.13. Extending Your Exception Handling · Section 3.14. Summary As Easy As Falling Off a Log · Section 4.1. Introduction · Section 4.2. What Does the Logging Block Do? · Section 4.3. How Do I Use the Logging Block? · Section 4.4. Non-Formatted Trace Listeners · Section 4.5. Creating Custom Trace Listeners, Filters, and Formatters · Section 4.6. Summary A Cache Advance for your Applications · Section 5.1. Introduction · Section 5.2. What Does the Caching Block Do? · Section 5.3. How Do I Configure the Caching Block? · Section 5.4. How Do I Use the Caching Block? · Section 5.5. Extending Your Cache Advance · Section 5.6. Summary Banishing Validation Complication · Section 6.1. Introduction · Section 6.2. Techniques for Validation · Section 6.3. What Does the Validation Block Do? · Section 6.4. How Do I Use The Validation Block? · Section 6.5. Diving in With Some Simple Examples · Section 6.6. Creating Custom Validators · Section 6.7. Summary Relieving Cryptography Complexity · Section 7.1. Introduction · Section 7.2. What Does the Cryptography Block Do? · Section 7.3. How Do I Use the Cryptography Block? · Section 7.4. Diving in with an Example · Section 7.5. Creating Custom Cryptography Providers · Section 7.6. Summary An Authentic Approach to Token Identity · Section 8.1. Introduction · Section 8.2. What Does the Security Block Do? · Section 8.3. How Do I Configure the Security Block? · Section 8.4. How Do I Use the Security Block? · Section 8.5. Diving in With an Example · Section 8.6. Creating Custom Authorization Providers · Section 8.7. Summary Appendix A. Dependency Injection with Unity · Section A.1. What is Dependency Injection? · Section A.2. The Unity Dependency Injection and Interception Mechanism · Section A.3. Defining Dependencies with Unity · Section A.4. Resolving Populated Instances of Your Classes Appendix B. Dependency Injection in Enterprise Library · Section B.1. Loading Configuration Information into a Unity Container · Section B.2. Viewing Registrations in the Container · Section B.3. Populating Entire Object Graphs at Application Startup · Section B.4. Maintaining a Container Reference in Request-Based Applications · Section B.5. Using an Alternative Service Locator or Container Appendix C. Policy Injection in Enterprise Library Appendix D. Enterprise Library Configuration Scenarios · Section D.1. About Enterprise Library Configuration · Section D.2. Scenarios for Advanced Configuration Appendix E. Encrypting Configuration Files