The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library

This book introduces one of the most exciting and popular .NET-oriented initiatives; the Enterprise Application Library, which offers nine classes of reusable code used to solve a variety of common problem spaces. It is the first book to introduce all ten of the enterprise application blocks, which have been recently updated for .NET 2.0. It covers a number of topics, including configuration, data access, exception management, caching, application updates, UI separation, asynchronous invocation, logging, security, and XML-based information aggregation. With this book readers will be able to build .NET applications faster and more efficiently.

Keenan Newton has over 10 years of experience designing, architecting, and developing N-tier applications for both Windows and web environments, with an emphasis on Web Services, ADO.NET, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). He is a speaker at local .NET user groups, and has been published in CoDe Magazine. Keenan is employed as a senior consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services.