Enterprise Library 5.0

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges.  Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used “as is,” extended, or modified by developers for use in enterprise development projects.

Enterprise Library consists of reusable software components that are designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges.  It includes a collection of functional application blocks addressing specific cross-cutting concerns such as data access, logging, or validation; and wiring blocks, Unity and the Interception/Policy Injection Application Block, designed to help implement more loosely coupled testable, and maintainable software systems.

This major release 5.0 of Enterprise Library contains many compelling new features and updates that will make developers more productive.  This release includes: Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, Security Application Block, Validation Application Block, and Unity Application Block.

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.NET GoogleReader API

Matt Berseth has created a .NET wrapper for the GoogleReader API.  This enables .NET applications to extract feeds from GoogleReader.  Note that the Google API is still beta version, so use at your own risk.

.NET GoogleReader

Wintellect Power Threading Library

Wintellect’s Jeffrey Richter has produced the Power Threading library (DLL) that contains many classes to help with threading and asynchronous programming.  There are versions of the library for the .NET Framework, Silverlight, and the .NET Compact Framework.

Jeffrey describes many of the library classes in his MSDN Magazine Concurrent Affairs column.

The library also contains some related non-threading classes for working with exceptions, command-line parsing, the change journal, opportunistic file locking, and more.

The Power Threading Library is available for download.  There is also a Yahoo support group set up and maintained by Richter.  Source code is available for a fee.