1. The Configuration Application Block Runtime

WHY START THIS book with a discussion of the Configuration Application Block? After all, there certainly must be more interesting topics than reading and writing configuration data for an application. True as that may be, the Configuration Application Block is the most important block in Enterprise Library. All other blocks depend on the Configuration Application Block to provide the functionality that drives their specific behavior. The application blocks that ship with Enterprise Library are no different than most applications and assemblies in this respect: they require some form of configuration information to operate properly. Understanding the design of the Configuration Application Block will ...

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