Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices) |  | Author: Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform—straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type—from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You’ll also get links to additional technical resources that can help with your application development.
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A must have for the .NET Architect, Developer, and PM November 16, 2009
T. Anderson (PA USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Man, was I glad to see them print this thing. I had bugged them about it, but they said it wouldn't pay for itself. It's good to see they changed their mind. I have been lugging it around in a binder, and that had been less than pleasurable.
I like keeping this with me because it serves as great reference of all the things I am supposed to remember, but often forget. When it comes time to begin a new architecture I like having my valuable books nearby, and this is one of them.
This book is packed with guidance on Mobile applications, Rich client applications, Rich Internet applications, Service applications, and Web applications built with .NET. The solution guidance provided in this book is all 100% .NET and Microsoft centric. It maps all the important aspects of software architecture to ways to implement them in .NET or with Microsoft products. This is the compass you need to find out what Microsoft has to offer for building different types of architectures.
The book includes individual chapters on designing Mobile applications, Rich client applications, Rich Internet applications, Service applications, Web applications, Hosted and Cloud Services, Office Business applications, and SharePoint LOB applications.
The book also includes some nice appendixes. They include the Microsoft Application Platform, Presentation Technology Matrix, Data Access Technology Matrix, Integration Technology Matrix, Workflow Technology Matrix, patterns & practices Enterprise Library, and a patterns & practices Pattern Catalog.
The book primarily focuses on architecture, but each chapter provides resources for guidance on the details of implementation for the technologies mentioned in that chapter.
The book focuses on the technical aspects of .NET architecture. It does not cover the soft skills needed to be an architect, or cover the customer facing skills need to communicate with the business stakeholders. You won't find much on process either, just an overview. These missing topics have not taken away from the book, they have made it a stronger book. There are plenty of resources on how to execute the soft skills and architecture process. This book concentrates on how to communicate with the development team through solid design and well known patterns and principles.
If you are a .NET Architect, Developer, or Project Manger of a .NET team, you should have this book at your side. As a matter of fact, I would recommend making one of your interview questions for your team members - "Tell me what your favorite part of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2nd Edition is?" If the candidate does not have a favorite part, you get back that hour you almost wasted on them.
Great Reference December 12, 2009
Matthew Edgar (TALLAHASSEE, FL United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I didn't use the first edition of the guide as much as I thought I would when it first came out oh so many years ago. But when the new 2nd edition was released I was interested to see what changes they had made. I was very surprised to find it so useful. There is a lot of great descriptions for the different architectures possible with the .NET framework. I found this to be a great refrence for documenting architectures for the projects I work on. It helped me organize my thoughts, and consider items to include (and to leave out) of my architecture documentation. One thing I noticed was the printed version is different than the PDF available for download from the CodePlex web site. Not sure why they are different, but I found the print version a bit better to follow.
Cannot Do Any Better March 21, 2010
DonPriceTech
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Whether you are an architect, developer, product manager, project manager, analyst, Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices) is a great desk reference. Please note that this reference is not an end-all-be-all for programming, but rather a 'guide' to aid in planning and designing any project (regardless of size and scope).
In addition to the Guide, I'll use Erl's SOA books or Dino Esposito's references, and others, but the Guide is usually the first place a I begin to make certain I do not make any expensive mistakes along the way.
I find it important to mention that this book had more than 30 collaborators from within Microsoft, its partners and its customers, so its depth in knowledge is expansive.
Great guidance March 31, 2010
Edward (Brooklyn Park, Mongolia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Given all the technologies both new and old supported in .NET and Visual Studio it can quickly become unclear on when to use what technology for a given situation. There are so many data access and ORM technologies in .NET do you know which one is good for a given project?
This book offers clear guidance on when to use what technology, framework and pattern for a given scenario. An example it provides an easy to use table for when to use a dynamic data application, Entity Framework, Linq, or just the ADO.NET api.
This book is packed witih great guidance. Now only if it were available on the Kindle!
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