"Manageability extensions for Enterprise Library Jan 2006 allows you to use Group Policy to update application configuration information, and to publish a running applications configuration to WMI, so that it can be consumed by any WMI-aware management application. The manageability extensions can be used with any application that makes use of Enterprise Library v 2.0, and does not require any recoding of the application itself."

Manageability Extensions CTP for Enterprise Library Download

Olaf Conijn hat bei CodePlex ein neues Projekt namens ".NET Configuration Manager" gestartet.

Das Tool erlaubt es, ASP.NET 2.0 web.config's mit dem Enterprise Library Configuration Tool zu bearbeiten. Gerade auf dedizierten Live-Systemen, auf denen im Normalfall kein Visual Studio vorhanden ist (= sein sollte ;-)), eine deutliche Erleichterung.

Seit gestern ist ein Patch (2554) für die Enterprise Library 2.0 verfügbar, der es ermöglicht, Applikationen, die auf die Enterprise Library 2.0 aufsetzen, in Partial Trust laufen zu lassen.

Der Patch ist auf der neu eingerichteten Seite für Patches zur Enterprise Library (1.x + 2.0) verfügbar.

Wer sich mehr mit Partial Trust bzw. Code Access Security (CAS) auseinandersetzen möchte (das sollte eigentlich jeder tun ;-)), dem sei das Buch "Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management" von Stefan Schackow empfohlen. Dieses Buch liefert nicht nur wichtige Informationen zur ASP.NET 2.0 Security, sondern erweitert auch das Verständnis von ASP.NET 2.0 allgemein, was z.B. bei der Fehlersuche ungemein helfen kann.

Wie Chris gestern bereits berichtet hat, sind bei Microsoft jetzt Hands On Labs für die Enterprise Library 2 verfügbar.

Das vor kurzem angekündigte Avanade Integration Pack for Microsoft Enterprise Library wurde bereits vor einigen Tagen released - grab it.

Colin Coller arbeitet derzeit am Enterprise Library Integration Pack, welches es ermöglichen soll, die Enterprise Library in Visual Studio 2005 zu integrieren - erste Screenshots sehen ja schon mal recht gut aus:

As promised last week, Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 has been released on friday. You can download it from here.

And there's a new patterns & practices project: The first Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit deliverables are available to the community.

From the announcement mail:

"We are working on a new project whose goal is to provide comprehensive, end-to-end guidance for building Smart Clients. We know CAB provides a good starting point, but it is certainly not enough. How about adding offline capabilities to a CAB based application? What if you need to add an authorization service? How would you structure a project? How to integrate Enterprise Library blocks?

These are some of the questions we want to provide answers to with this new deliverable.

Also, there is already an interesting amount of content available. As some of you know we have now weekly builds and the third one is ready for download in the project's community site.

This 3rd drop includes:

- A Reference Implementation (a more comprehensive example of a well written CAB application than the BankTeller Quickstart included in CAB)
- A Visual Studio Guidance Package (automation to generate the most common artifacts using GAT right from Visual Studio)
- Some initial documentation"

Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 should be out this week via Tom.

I will report a test next week because I'm heading of for DotNetGerman Community Winter Camp tomorrow.

"Grab it from the Downloads section of the GotDotNet CodeGallery. This build works on the final shipping version of Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. Please post any feedback about this CTP build to the "Enterprise Library Pre-Release Discussion" message board."

Description:

"Enterprise Library for Microsoft .NET 1.x has been a smashing success with two releases and over 150K downloads. The June 2005 release is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, but many of you are eagerly awaiting this next release of Enterprise Library which is specifically designed for .NET 2.0. In this webcast, we discuss how Enterprise Library has evolved to a true .NET 2.0 library."

Presenter: Ron Jacobs, PRODUCT MANAGER, Microsoft Corporation