A group of programmers far smarter than I have been laboring from some time to create a library of utilities to help developers like myself to create better applications. The fruits of that labor is the Enterprise Library from the Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft. The Enterprise Library encompasses Exception Handling, Logging, Caching, Security, Cryptography, and Database Access. The latest incarnation of the Enterprise Library for the .Net 2.0 framework also includes an ObjectBuilder which allows object creation with dependency injection. I’d be lying to you if I told you I understand exactly what the ObjectBuilder does. Brian Button has released the most complete information I have found so far on the ObjectBuilder. Documentation is scarce at this point since the Enterprise Library has not been officially released. The code covered in this article is based on the December Community Technology Preview of the new Enterprise Library.-A group of programmers far smarter than I ha ve been laboring from some time to create a libra ry of utilities to help developers like myself t o create better applications. The fruits of tha t labor is the Enterprise Library from the Patte Residus