Blogs @ IRM

When installing Enterprise Library 4.1 today I recived the “This version of Enterprise Library cannot be installed side-by-side with version 4.0. Please uninstall …” message even though I had uninstalled version 4.0 already (and re-booted). After searching for the problem, I quickly found som tips (for example this) stating that removing the ...

While I was gone (three weeks in the US on vacation) pattern and practices have released Enterprise Library 3.0. We have been using the January CTP since January without problem, but only the ''old'' application blocks, like exception handling and logging. In this version there are two new blocks; Validation Application Block and Policy Injection ...

Exception Shielding is a design pattern that solves the problem, that a Web service should not disclose any information about the internal implementation of the service when an error occurs. In PAG's reference implementation of the Web Service Software Factory they have created a very elegant solution for this. But first let's go back one step and ...

Microsoft's patterns & practices have released the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0.

I'm working on upgrading a big project to .NET 2.0. It has gone smoothly so far, with one exception: configuration. This is probably mostly because I had build all the configuration on EntLib 1.1. One of the goals for EntLib is to show best practices on the platform. With version 2.0 of .NET, the configuration have been extended a lot, for example ...

The patterns & practices have released a CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. I have downloaded it and read some blog post from the team about it and there will be some major changes since the platform has solved a lot of the things that EntLib did before. One example is that the Configuration Block going to be radically changed since ...

In two previous posts (Write a custom ExceptionHandler to expose more details in SoapException and An ExceptionHandler that extract the detail information from the SoapException) I wrote about how to create a custom ExceptionHandler for EntLib. The ExceptionHandlers created a SoapException with the real exception serialized in the Detail element, ...

This is the follow up post on my previous one, about writing a custom ExceptionHandler that serializes the real exception object into the detail element of a SoapException.I will only look into the override of HandleException of the SoapClientExceptionHandler since everything else is the same as for SoapServerExceptionHandler. /// /// Replaces the ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a SoapExtension that inserted a serialized version of the real exception (not a SoapException) into the fault element in a Soap message. The purpose was to use it when using web services to communicate between a client and server on an intranet instead of .NET Remoting. This solution has several drawbacks; for ...

I have been using Microsoft Enterprise Library (EntLib) since day one of the public release and I believe that I will blog a bit about it in some coming posts and I'll start today with a brief overview of the Exception Handling Application Block. I've also used the old Exception Application Block that I think was one of the first code blocks that ...

Finally has Enterprise Library arrived. It is a release from the PAG-team and it contains the following Application Blocks: Caching Application Block Configuration Application Block Data Access Application Block Cryptography Application Block Exception Handling Application Block Logging and Instrumentation Application Block Security ...