EO2 CTP - Remember it's pre-release

by Matthew Noonan 23. March 2006 16:25

I have gotten a few emails about this, so I think it's a good idea to address the issue more publicly.

The EO2 CTP download does not work with Enterprise Library Configuration Tool. If you try it, you will get a whole bunch of exception messages. If you are new to the Enterprise Library, or EasyObjects, and you are trying to walk through the tutorials, remember they are written for the current release build 1.1.

As I posted in the blog release, the configuration piece of the Enterprise Library changed drastically between version 1.x and version 2.0. Releasing the 2.0 code was driven by how much work it was going to take to get the configuration piece (for all intents and purposes) re-written. The decision was made to release it without any configuration support so that early-adopters and power users could run on the new platform (and with Visual Studio 2005, which is not supported with EO 1.x).

But the current stable release is 1.1, so all of the documentation on this site reflects that. In short, if you are checking out EO (thanks!), start with the 1.1 release build in order to walk through the tutorials. Once you become more comfortable, you can get your feet wet with the 2.0 CTP.

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