Think of Enterprise Library as a Provider not a Dependency

Repository Factory Example
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices Teams need to change their thinking about Enterprise Library.
Enterprise Library needs to be thought of as a provider of services and not a dependency in their various software factories.
This came up again today as I was playing with the Repository Factory and noticed it had a dependency on the old Enterprise Library [...]

Authentication vs. Authorization

It is easy to confuse the mechanism of authentication with that of authorization. In many host-based systems (and even some client/server systems), the two mechanisms are performed by the same physical hardware and, in some cases, the same software.
It is important to draw the distinction between these two mechanisms, however, since they can (and, [...]