tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379641342011-04-21T16:03:35.033-07:00Zaharan is a Software Architect, currently working in the Financial Hub of the Gulf - Bahrain! He enjoys traveling, teaching, photography, research, and penning his thoughts at his spare time. The content here is the author’s own views and ideas, gained by 11years of professional experience in software development, training and research. <br> <br> <br> ~ I listen, I forget. I see, I remember. I pactise, I learn. I teach, I master! ~Zaharan Haleedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009867563561051582noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37964134.post-32003103107159494032007-05-19T14:31:00.000-07:002007-05-19T14:36:36.695-07:00<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;"></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">I met some cool people in this part of the world and I was so thrilled to speak to them and know how they use Microsoft .NET technologies! We met several times in evenings for coffee and discuss our experiences on developing software applications. I was so surprised that most of them, though have heard about the Microsoft Enterprise Library, have not used or at least taken a look at it how it can help them in their developments.<br /><br />I’ve been an ardent fan of the Enterprise Library ever since its first release in early 2005! The common question amongst the folks I had chatted with is how it will help to boost the development productivity and what best practises are used in it.<br /><br />Took a deep breath and a full sip of coffee before I explained them all the wonderful things it could do, what it is and what it is not! I will address about the development productivity and best practises separately. I will brief the explanation I gave to my new friends to all those people who are new to the Microsoft Enterprise Library.<br /><br />The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of tools and libraries </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">also commonly known as ‘application blocks’. It has been developed by analyzing common enterprise development challenges to provide functionality to support many common scenarios that enterprise-level applications must address. Different applications have different requirements and using application blocks should be considered only when you have a good understanding of the application requirements. You should also understand the scenarios that the application blocks are designed to address.<br /><br />As you would note, the Enterprise Library was created to address common enterprise development challenges and therefore these are customizable, reusable, scalable application blocks.<br /><br />The Enterprise Library is developed by</span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;"> patterns and practices development team at Microsoft. It is tested thoroughly and it is designed with all Microsoft recommended best practises for .NET applications and hence using the Enterprise Library will allow you to encapsulate the best practises in to your applications as well.<br /><br />The Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 was released on April 2007 and contains the following application blocks:<br /><br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480456.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Caching Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480457.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Cryptography Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480458.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Data Access Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480461.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Exception Handling Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480464.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Logging Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410104.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Policy Injection Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480465.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Security Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br />· </span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410105.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">Validation Application Block</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">.<br /><br />Let’s go through each application block and see what it can do and how we can use it in our applications. For now, download the enterprise library, play with it and check out its ease of use.<br /><br />Download from here;<br /></span><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa480453.aspx"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa480453.aspx</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;"><br />Also take a look at Tom Hollander’s blog, he is the Product Manager for the Enterprise Library at Microsoft. (as of April 2007)<br /><br /></span><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;">http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330000;"><br />Happy reading friends!<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37964134-3200310310715949403?l=haleedz.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Zaharan Haleedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009867563561051582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37964134.post-1165823213497061062006-12-10T23:33:00.000-08:002006-12-10T23:46:53.506-08:00<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Hi, folks! I'm back again to blogging! Many many years ago, I used to blog and then the work load put me off track for a long time, resulting me to forget my sign-on info, even my blogging name... duh !<br /><br />I would like to share my thoughts with you and also learn from you on new technology, industries, people and many many things as i go on with ma adventure of life.<br /><br />I invite you to visit my blog page and freely share your views and thoughts with me.<br /><br />Thanks in advance, folks !<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37964134-116582321349706106?l=haleedz.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Zaharan Haleedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009867563561051582noreply@blogger.com0