VS Integration for EntLib Configuration Console

When PAG released Enterprise Library they introduced us to the wonderful Configuration Console that did put the end of our prior miserable life of editing thous long configuration xml files. There is only one thing that someone forgot there and this is to have the configuration console integrated inside Visual Studio so that you will not have to get out of the environment every time you want to change the EntLib configuration.

Well it is missing from the EntLib MSI but I was very happy to see that the guys from Avanade filled that missing part !

Check out the Adavade Integration Pack fro Microsoft Enterprise Library ! (1.08 MB)

The integration pack provides the functionality of the Microsoft Enterprise Library Configuration Console as an editor for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.  Once installed, Visual Studio will open .config files in an editor tree view, display node properties in the Properties window, display configuration and validation errors in the Error List window, and so on.  The behaviours of the tree view and context menus have changed from Configuration Console to make more sense in a tabbed interface, but all Configuration Console functionality is still available !

For more information regrding the integration pack such us when will the source be release to the public or for Integration Pack Q&A check Colinco Blog

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