.NET Framework: Does anyone use Enterprise Library these days?

I haven't been keeping up with more recent versions of Enterprise Library, but I recall using it in a project several years ago. My take away was that it wasn't for me. Enterprise Library doesn't seem like a "celebrated" topic in the .net community either, but I couldn't give you any data on its current usage in new projects.

Unfortunatly, yes. In my opinion, EF is one of those frameworks created both to "simplify" development, and to remove the requirement for the developer to understand SQL. This might work well for very small projects. Projects that are developed once, and then are not expected to grow, or have a short lifespan. However, to develop a data-driven appliaction without an understanding of databases is in my opinion madness. Further, when schemas start changing, models are added, etc., then using EF actually starts beeing a much greater bother than just doing it right from the start. Also, the "coding by convention" approach seems to be very much in vouge theese days, but it has one _major_ limitation: There's no way a developer not familiar with the framework can intuitively understand exactly what it does. This would make the project very difficult to maintain at some later time when the given framework utlilizing convetion is no longer popular.