patterns & practices – Enterprise Library

The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance; they are provided as source code plus documentation that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on complex, enterprise-level line-of-business development projects.


Quick Links

• Download official releases: October 2008 (4.1), May 2008 (4.0), May 2007 (3.1), April 2007 (3.0), January 2006 (2.0), June 2005 (1.1)
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• Community Extensions:
  • EntLib Contrib Community Extensions Project (May 2009 Release - New)
  • Hosting your extension in your own CodePlex project? Tag it with Enterprise Library
  • Validation Application Block: WPF Integration Adapter by Martin Bennedik
  • Externally hosted extensions
• Support and Service

Questions & Suggestions
Got questions, bugs or suggestions for Enterprise Library? Firstly, check out EntLib FAQ and if unanswered, report them here

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News

• 04/20/2009: Development of Enterprise Library 5.0 begins
• 03/18/2009: Entire set of new Hands On Labs for ALL Enterprise Library v4.1 application blocks and Unity 1.2 released
• 01/03/2009: Validation Application Block Hands-on Lab released
• 12/14/2008: Unity for Silverlight released

patterns & practices Links

• patterns & practices on MSDN
• Unity
• Web Client Software Factory Community
• Web Service Software Factory Community
• Smart Client Guidance Community
• GAX Extensions Library Community