The Microsoft Patterns and practices is a useful control set for global logging, error handling and database connections. This tool set is great for development, but when you go to deploy it is not so fun. I have added some references of how we were able to get Patterns and Practices on a production box. One of the constraints of Patterns and Practices is that it requires / needs Visual Studio installed. This is great if you are developing on a box, but in the real world (i.e. Production boxes) you ......