February 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 Released
The February 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 has been released, according to Tom Hollander this is the last version before the release in about a month. It has a fair few interesting additions which Tom explains in more detail.
I've always been torn about the Enterprise Library stuff. Some of it is very useful, some of it is superb, and some of it I always just wonder 'why?'
I'm currently using it as the client would like the data access done with the library, but at the back of my mind I know the application I am writing is far more suited to an ORM tool like ActiveRecord or LLBLGen - every time I reach another pain in the backside point of dealing with DataSets and ADO.NET I long for a decent ORM tool.
Then of course, whenever I'm on a project where I get to use an ORM tool, I long for a decent ADO.NET datalayer when the ORM makes me start writing code that is chatty enough to talk for England.
I guess I'll just keep on doing it however works. There must be a better way though!