Contains the core Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.1 application blocks: Caching; Data; Logging; and Exception Handling

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. It facilitates loosely-coupled design.

Unity interception enables you to effectively capture calls to objects and add additional functionality to the target object. Interception is useful when you want to modify the behavior for individual objects but not the entire class, very much as you would do when using the Decorator pattern. It provides a flexible approach for adding new behavior... More information

The Enterprise Library Common assembly contains elements that are shared among multiple application blocks. By supplying a set of commonly used functions to all the application blocks, the Common assembly reduces the dependency of one application block on another.

The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block simplifies logging to various destinations (file, database, event log, MSMQ etc.) and tracing.

The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block simplifies the development of tasks that implement common data access functionality. Applications can use this application block in a variety of situations, such as reading data for display, passing data through application layers, and submitting changed data back to the database system.

The Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block helps developers create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions that occur in various architectural layers of an enterprise application.

The Enterprise Library Caching Application Block lets developers incorporate a local in-memory or persistent cache in their applications.

The Enterprise Library Validation Application Block provides useful features that allow developers to implement structured and easy-to-maintain validation scenarios in their applications.

This exception handler lets you log formatted exception information in locations specified in the configuration file.

The Transient Fault Handling Application Block for Windows Azure ("Topaz") provides a set of reusable and testable components for adding retry logic into your Windows Azure applications leveraging Windows Azure SQL Database, Windows Azure storage, Service Bus and Caching Service. This makes your Windows Azure application more reliable and resilient... More information

Common.Logging library bindings for Enterprise Library logging framework.

This logging provider lets developer use the Data Access Application Block to store log entries.

The Microsoft Enterprise Library Autoscaling Application Block for Windows Azure provides reusable and testable components to add or manage autoscaling capabilities for Windows Azure hosted services and applications. The block is a part of the Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure.

The Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block WCF Provider helps to prevent details of the service implementation from escaping the secure service boundary.

The Enterprise Library Security Application Block provide a common abstraction from specific security providers.

The Enterprise Library Cryptography Application Block simplifies the ways to incorporate cryptographic functionality in applications.

The Enterprise Library Policy Injection Application Block can be used to change the behavior of any .NET objects, in order to better manage crosscutting concerns for these objects. The policy injection is implemented through the Unity interception mechanism. The package includes call handlers for Logging, Validation and Exception Handling

This component allows the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block to integrate with WCF.

The EntLibContrib Oracle ODP.NET Data Provider allow to use the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) with the Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block. That provider requires the ODP.NET client to be installed.