Adding Configuration Support for Custom Providers in Enterprise Library in ASP.NET 2.0
By adding configuration design support, you can make your custom providers look and feel just like the built-in providers, letting users select them and provide settings through the Configuration Console.
by Alex Homer
January 4, 2007
his is the last entry in a series of articles on Microsoft's "patterns & practices" (p&p) Enterprise Library tools, and how you can use them in your ASP.NET applications. Enterprise Library provides a range of application blocks and features that make it easier to accomplish complex tasks such as accessing databases, caching and encrypting data, handling exceptions, and generating Event Log messages. It demonstrates and codifies best practices in design and implementation. Microsoft supplies Enterprise Library in source code form so you can learn from it and adapt it to suit your own specific requirements.
A previous article in this series showed how easy it is to build a custom provider for an Enterprise Library application block. The article discussed building a custom backing store provider for the Caching Application Block, but the principles for creating providers that extend Enterprise Library are the same irrespective of the block that you need to extend.
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his is the last entry in a series of articles on Microsoft's "patterns & practices" (p&p) Enterprise Library tools, and how you can use them in your ASP.NET applications. Enterprise Library provides a range of application blocks and features that make it easier to accomplish complex tasks such as accessing databases, caching and encrypting data, handling exceptions, and generating Event Log messages. It demonstrates and codifies best practices in design and implementation. Microsoft supplies Enterprise Library in source code form so you can learn from it and adapt it to suit your own specific requirements.
