For those of you interested in all things relating to Enterprise Library, I’d like to announce that InnerWorkings has just released two Drills on the subject. Our R&D team has spent the month of September busily compiling a host of brain-crunching coding challenges on several core aspects of Enterprise Library for the .NET Framework 2.0.

Our first Drill asks you to develop your C# skills using the following application blocks:

• use the Data Access Application Block to retrieve and modify data from a database
• employ the Logging Application Block to log information to a file and trace activities to a database
• configure the Exception Handling Application Block to catch, wrap, and throw exceptions
• configure the Exception Handling Application Block and the Logging Application Block to catch and log exceptions

Our next Drill delves into C# coding challenges using several additional application blocks:

• use the Caching Application Block to cache frequently accessed data
• configure the Cryptography Application Block to encrypt and decrypt data using the same cryptographic key
• configure and use the Cryptography Application Block to hash data using a salt, and compare plain text values with their hash equivalent
• employ the Security Application Block for authorization
• set the Security Cache Manager to cache user identities

If you’re into developing reusable components that encapsulate Microsoft best practices, then look no further than our online catalog where both the above Drills are available (with some “new release” discounts thrown into the mix). Enjoy.

P.S. Don’t despair, VB developers! Equivalent VB language versions of both Drills on Enterprise Library are scheduled for release at the end of October.

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