Tom Hollander blogs about the results of the voting and their prioritization meetings with a planned feature list for Entlib v3.
Here's the base list:
- Medium Trust support
- Manageability extensions for configuration (WMI, Group Policy)
- Simple Strong-naming
- Mini-Factory for building your own blocks and providers
- Validation Application Block
- Exception Handling: WCF integration (exception shielding / fault mapping)
- Logging: WCF pipeline integration
- AuthZ: WCF Pipeline integration
And, as time allows:
- Config Tool: Embedded in the Visual Studio IDE
- DAAB: SQL Everywhere support
- DAAB: Richer transactions support
- Docs: More code samples
- Docs: Detailed documentation for ObjectBuilder
- DAAB: Batch support
- Config Tool: Edit AppSettings and other .NET settings
- Config Tool: Environmental Overrides
- Config Tool: Encryption Support
- Config Tool: Improved type loading behavior when assemblies can't be found
- Logging: Rolling flat file TraceListener
- Logging: Local or UTC timestamps in formatted log messages
- Logging: Reflected property tokens
- Ability to create custom production installs
- Ability to create custom developer installs
- Exception Handling: Localization of exception messages
- DAAB: ODP.NET provider support
The reasoning behind some of the scheduling decisions is explained in the post, but at least now you know what to look forward to.