Shows a brief example of a stored procedure call using the DAAB, and covers the GenericDatabase and limitations.

In this post, Javi shows how to apply parameter validation in WCF services using Castle WCF facility and the Enterprise Library Validation Block.

Any web page which requires input from the user simply cant allow just any data to be entered because the data might be too long, missing or incorrect. We need to validate the data entered by the users in a number of ways; for example, First Name and Last Name might be required fields and Date of Bi...

Congratulations to the Enterprise Library Team for their release of Enterprise Library 4.0. A few enhancements and bug fixes in this release, but most importantly it comes with Unity IoC Integration.

Usually object validation requires writing a lot of code that examines properties and returns validation result. With VAB this scenario becomes extremely easy and simple.

am here to tell you guys Enterprise Library 3.1 has been released and i think there is a lot to see in this release. check this out

Enterprise Library 3.1 Released

A great little quick and concise tutorial on how to get up and running using the latest Enterprise Library Data Access Blocks from Microsoft.

Tutorial : Policy Injection Application Block of Enterprise Library

If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology Preview releases, there shouldn't be anything too surprising in the final release, although the overall quality should be much higher. All of the major new features have already been described on this blog or in other places, but here is a quic...

Enterprise library 3.0 CTP [December 2006] released couple of days ago , The famous application blocks library from the famous Pattern & Practice group offer major changes this time including existing blocks enhancements , supporting the new born .Net Framework 3.0 , Application block software f...

The Validation Application Block is the hottest new feature in the upcoming new version of the Enterprise Library V3.0. In this tutorial, the author describes how to use it using attributes and how you can extend it using your own validators.

Apparently MS will be providing a factory for creating your own application blocks for v3.0 of the Enterprise Library , should you desire to do so. Reading Ayende's latest post on this and his link to this flashback post from Joel Spolsky, had me rolling on the floor laughing.

Announcing the upcoming EntLib Validation Block. Also wondering how elegant the upcoming enterprise library validation block will be as a DDD Specification Repository...