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5 reasons to download the EntLib Contrib September 2007 release

Olaf Conijn — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:44:00 GMT

This morning I woke up to Tom's announcement on the new EntLib Contrib release. No big surprises for me personally, since we have been working on this release together for quite some while. Tom actually picked up where I left it, when I went to sleep (and Tom woke up and got to work). Hooray for redundancy across time zones!

On the project homepage you can find a list of all extensions, in this post you find 5 reasons to go and download it now!

Reason #1: You have a need to translate SQL Server error codes (2601 - Primary Key violation, 547 Foreign Key violation, etc.) to .NET Exceptions.

The SqlException Wrap Handler can do this job for you!

Reason #2: Every once in a while you are annoyed by Enterprise Libraries configuration console, since it's Type Selector doesn't work well when hosted inside Visual Studio.

We fixed this in the Lightweight Type Selector!

Reason #3: You've been having runtime exceptions or other issues when using the Validation Application Block, because you simply didn't test your validators using all possibly inputs or cultures.

You can now play around and test your validators, using the Test Command for Validation Rules!

Reason #4: You need more general purpose validation rules to go with the Validation Application Block. Such as (personal favorite) the ExternallyConfigurableObjectValidator (which allows for nested validation and configuration in a file other than web.config or app.config).

Check out these validators!

Reason #5: You need more Policy Injection Call Handlers for the Policy Injection Application Block. Allow me to introduce you to: CursorCallHandler, OneWayCallHandler, SynchronizedCallHandler, ThreadSafeCallHandler, TransactionScopeCallHandler.

(these are unfortunately not documented on the wiki yet, but browsing through the discussions page might help you get an idea on what these are all about)

oh, and reason #6 is that it contains all the previous release contained!

meanwhile even more contributors joined to project and are willing to share their extensions with every single one of us. Yay!

Lots of cool stuff to look forward to in the Enterprise Library community!

Olaf Conijn — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:43:00 GMT

Grigori Melnik ( yeah, you know... Tom++ ) is planning a new Enterprise Library release for Visual Studio Orca's. Yay!

From Grigori's weblog:
We, at patterns & practices, are planning a release of Enterprise Library for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas). It will happen at around the same time Visual Studio 2008 is out (Feb 2008 as per our roadmap). At a minimum, you can expect the current functionality ported to Orcas.

[Update: please fill out the questionaire at: http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226STCU2528]

Meanwhile, the Enterprise Library Contrib continues to grow...

There is a list of functionality on the project's homepage that has been added since the the first (July 07) release besides which Francois Tanguay has been dominating our Source Code check-in list recently, adding all sorts of cool little updates.

(note to self: I'll update the homepage shortly, to include Francois' additions).

Tom and I will be packaging all of the stuff that we've collected on CodePlex over the last 2 months, in order to do a new release in the first 2 weeks of September. Yay #2!

Keep watching this space, the Contrib project, Grigori's weblog and offcourse Tom Hollanders' weblog for more updates along the way.

If you are part of the Contrib community and have questions w/ regards to the September release, feel free to contact either me or Tom over CodePlex.

Enterprise Library Contrib July 2007 - Get it while its hot!

Olaf Conijn — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:41:00 GMT

After having hosted the EntlibContrib project for a couple of months now, I believe we have come to a point at which we have reached critical mass and provide good value over Enterprise Library (we even managed to fix some issues that where logged in the Enterprise Libraries issue tracker on codeplex!).

From this point on we will try to release every couple of months, including new contributions or bug-fixes to the previously released extensions.

Unfortunately, we do not have a testing team for the contributions project. We basically count on your feedback within our issue tracker as a means of quality assuranceJ .I would like to thank all the contributors that have been so kind to share their extensions to Enterprise Library in this release. Feel free to follow their good example!

This first release of Enterprise Library Contrib contains the following:

PostSharp4EntLib - Combines the benefits of the Enterprise Library Policy Injection and of compile-time weaving by removing the limitations due to the use of remoting proxies.

LogParser - Combines the benefits of the Enterprise Library Logging Application Block with the ability to deserialize from a human readable log text file all LogEntry objects back. This enables sophisticated log filter capabilities with LINQ on normal log files (.NET 2.0 and Orcas samples) with very few lines of code.

MySql for DAAB - MySql provider for the Data Access Application Block.

SqlLite for DAAB - SqlLite provider for the Data Access Application Block.

Additional PIAB Matching Rules
   And Matching Rule: Combines 2 Matching Rules and evaluates to "true" only if both of contained Matching Rules evalute to "true".
   Or Matching Rule: Combines 2 Matching Rules and evaluates to "true" if either one of contained Matching Rules evalutes to "true"
   Not Matching Rule: Contains another Matching Rules and evaluates to "true" if the contained Matching Rules evalutes to "false".

Additional VAB Validators
   Externally Configurable Object Validator: An Object Validator that allows to use configuration from a configuration file other than web.config or app.config.

Designtime Enhancements
   Lightweigth type-picker for VAB: An alternative type-picker for the validation application block that allows you to enter a typename in a text-box (instead of using the tree-view to navigate the whole lot of types in the current appdomain).

Extended SQL Data Access Block - This data access application block extends the SQL Data Access Block provided by Enterprise Library. It provides additional overloads for the UpdateDataSet method so that a collection of rows or a table can be passed to the DataAdapter for update. These methods were developed to support updating datasets that have multiple tables and cascading hierarchies.

EntLibContrib, lets extend Enterprise Library together!

Olaf Conijn — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:22:00 GMT

A couple of weeks ago the "Enterprise Library Contrib" project was published on CodePlex (www.codeplex.com/EntLibContrib). Meanwhile a couple of cool people joined the project, with intent to share and collaborate on the extensions they've made to EntLib.

Currently, 2 extensions have already been commited to the sourcecode; the "additional matchingrules" for PIAB and MySql support for DAAB.

If there is anything you would like to share, don't hessitate to sign up! as for now I am really curious as to how this works out.

Search results matching tag 'EntLibContrib'

5 reasons to download the EntLib Contrib September 2007 release

Lots of cool stuff to look forward to in the Enterprise Library community!

Enterprise Library Contrib July 2007 - Get it while its hot!

EntLibContrib, lets extend Enterprise Library *together*!

EntLibContrib, lets extend Enterprise Library together!