Enterprise Library

MS have announced the release of the "Enterprise Library", which is essentially the consolidated v2 release of their Application Blocks for .NET (MS produced this new version in conjunction with Avenade, who had exclusive access to them for the first 90 days of their release). The blocks have all been largely rewritten to a consolidated & consistent design.

The "blocks" that form this initial release are:

• Caching;
• Configuration;
• Data Access;
• Cryptography;
• Exception Handling;
• Logging & Instrumentation;
• Security.

No mention of the successor to the Updater block, although note that an alpha v2 release is available on the GotDotNet workspace ... assume that this will eventually be amalgamated into the Enterprise Library...? Note that ClickOnce in VS.NET v2 makes the Updater kind of redundant, so this may be the reason it's being kept separate.