BillyM posted on Saturday, September 15, 2007

I am curious if anyone has done a comparison between CSLA and Microsoft Enterprise Library. In particular, I am wondering which parts may be complimentary (for example, Logging Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, etc.) and which may be duplicative (for example, the Security Application Block, Validation Application Block.)

IOW, is there a way to blend these two in order to maximize the best of both?

William replied on Saturday, September 15, 2007

There are a number of discussions on this topic in the forum. Just start searching will find. Besides, Rocky also posted an article on the topic. http://www.lhotka.net/Article.aspx?area=4&id=b6b197e1-5aa0-44dc-8548-f450de1a2913 Regards, William

triplea replied on Sunday, September 16, 2007

A good artice on how to use the Validation Application Block and one which I have used can be found here: http://www.delarou.net/weblog/PermaLink,guid,3d570304-a8db-4987-9031-f9afb004ff74.aspx

I have also used the Data Access Application Block from eithin my DataPortal once.

In general I recommend to only use the enterprise library only if you need some some of its functionality and not trying to replace parts of CSLA (e.g. in the case of security).