Enterprise Library Contrib

Welcome to the EntLib Contrib project!

EntLib Contrib is a community-developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library.

In short, if you wrote it, why not share it with the world so that they can benefit form all your hard work? With your help EntLib Contrib will evolve to include a wide range of additional providers, extensions, tools and even application blocks that can be used with Enterprise Library.

Note: Extensions in the core EntLib Contrib project should work against official builds of Enterprise Library, and should not require any modifications to the core Enterprise Library code. Contributions that involve modifications to Enterprise Library code will be considered, but any such contributions will be made available as separate releases on this site.

What's in EntLib Contrib?

The latest release of EntLib Contrib is Enterprise Library Contrib September 2007. It contains the following functionality. For more detailed documentation, follow the link to the release home page.

• Data Access Application Block extensions
• MySql, SqLite and SqlEx providers
• Exception Handling Application Block extensions
• SqlException Wrap Handler
• Logging Application Block extensions
• LogParser
• Policy Injection Application Block extensions
• PostSharp4EntLib
• New matching rules: And, Or and Not
• New call handlers: CursorCallHandler, OneWayCallHandler, SynchronizedCallHandler, ThreadSafeCallHandler, TransactionScopeCallHandler
• Validation Application Block extensions
• New validators: CollectionCountValidator, TypeValidator<T>, ObjectValidator<T>, EnumDefinedValidator
• Designtime enhancements: Lightweight type picker, Test command
• Other extensions: Default validators, Argument Validation, ExternallyConfigurableObjectValidator

Other separate releases hosted on this site are:

• Standalone Validation Application Block 1.2: adds deep WPF automatic object validating data-binding via a new ValidationBinding markup extension.
• Extended SQL Data Access Block 3.1.1

Other contributions in the source code but not in the latest release:

• Resource Application Block 3.1
• The Application Block Software Factory (needs GAX)
• The Strong-Naming Guidance Package (needs GAX)

Contributing to EntLib Contrib

Would you like to join as a developer of the EntLib Contrib project to share your own extensions or improve the existing codebase? Great! Here is what you need to know

• About p&p "Contrib" projects
• Guidelines for EntLib Contrib code
• Sign Up Process

Other p&p Contrib Projects

• Web Client Software Factory Contrib
• Smart Client Software Factory Contrib