Viewing the Effective Policies

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The policies that the Policy Application Block applies depend on a range of factors, including attributes declared on the target class and its members, and the combination of matching rules in all the policies defined in the application configuration. The result is that it is often difficult to see exactly which handlers the application block will apply to an individual class and class member.

To assist developers, administrators, and operators, the patterns & practices group provide a separate tool named Effective Policy Viewer that can analyze an assembly using a specified configuration file and discover the actual handler policy that will apply to the classes within the assembly (see Figure 1).

Figure 1
Using the Effective Policy Viewer to view the policies that apply to a target class instance

The Effective Policy Viewer is not part of this release of Enterprise Library, but it is available as an additional resource that you can download from the patterns & practices Enterprise Library Web site.

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