Yo Microsoft, Enterprise Library is cool and all but...
...don't you think its missing something?
I do, but its probably a case of looking for the forest when everybody else is interested in the just the trees.
What this really needs, IMHO, is a live or Webcast introduction that covers what's the big rocks of this offering -- a guided path if you will -- where the presenter talks us through the process of building apps based on one or more of the blocks. At a minimum, such a presentation should cover the configuration block, the configuration, exception, logging and data access blocks since that seems like to be what most of us will use the most frequently. Then we both see the value and have the confidence in ourselves to know where to start. I'm not saying that these things aren't possible to do with just the bits, but I am saying it would make it ton easier to have somebody show us where to get started.
I can think of at least four places you could do it too:
- As soon as possible, make it the quarterly content for the DCCs to deliver at the MSDN event series. If just do a third or if they do the whole 1/2 day on it, that's seems like a no-brainer to me.
- Webcast that, since you'll probably want to put the Web Cast on the MSDN event DVDs.
- Have at least one session at TechEd 2005 that does that. A Hands-On-Lab would be great too.
- Get your other champions and community stars to deliver it through INETA's speaker bureau, at local UG events and the various Code Camps and so on. Keep in mind, though, that these folks will likely require the most priming.
Its pretty hard to eat this whole elephant in a single bite. It is way cool (and way needed) stuff, but if you help us assimilate it, it's pretty likely we will.