The Patterns and Practices team over at Microsoft had a new version release of their Enterprise Library framework in 27th October with some new features. Here’s what’s new in the 4.1 version:

- Unity interception mechanism and integration of the Policy Injection

- Application Block with the Unity Application Block

- Added support for generics in the Unity Application Block

- Added support for arrays in the Unity Application Block

- Performance improvements

- Usability improvements to the configuration tool

- Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 support

- Bug fixes

This version of EntLib has version 1.2 of Unity. If don’t know what Unity is, check out this post.

“Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges (such as logging, validation, caching, exception handling, and many others). Application blocks are a type of guidance encapsulating Microsoft recommended development practices; they are provided as source code, tests plus documentation that can be used “as is,” extended, or modified by developers to use on complex, enterprise-level line-of-business development projects.”

You can download the 4.1 version here.