This .Net class library is designed to integrate into enterprise applications to help support their high performance and reliability requirements. The focus of the Enterprise Library is to provide simple and robust mechanisms that take full advantage of the amazing capabilities already in the .Net Framework and extend those capabilities to support the needs of enterprise applications. The first major component of the library is the Operations Framework. The Operations Framework provides flexible and efficient support for asynchronous operations that can fully utilize the power of computers with multiple processors and make I/O operations much faster.