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.NET Architecture Info Center EMAIL THIS The .NET Architecture Info Center offers application architecture news and tips, highlighting Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and other Microsoft patterns and practices. MUST READ .NET Development coming to a Cloud near you Published by: SearchWinDevelopment.com | 22 Sep 2008 ARTICLE - Cloud computing platforms allow developers to write applications with scalability built into the underlying infrastructure. But Cloud development has unique traits. Analysis: The state of Visual Studio Team System Published by: SearchWinDevelopment.com | 20 Nov 2007 ARTICLE - Reader survey results show that development teams want software for more than basic coding -- and that is the Visual Studio Team System vision. WEB SERVICES AND SOA IMPLEMENTATIONS IN THE .NET FRAMEWORK from SearchWinDevelopment.com Goin' mobile with Windows TIP - .NET Framework is a good start if you're interested in targeting the Windows Mobile platform. Find the necessary software development kits to begin programming mobile devices. Microsoft "WebSphere Loves Windows" ads tout cost, performance vs. AIX ARTICLE - The new campaign compares an IBM Power6 system running AIX to an HP blade server running Windows. The Windows server wins. Microsoft's Oslo modeling platform, the M language and .NET TIP - Oslo, the modeling platform in the works at Microsoft, aims to shift development toward business' data. How it'll tie into .NET remains to be seen, but Microsoft is dropping hints. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC TEAM DEVELOPMENT WITH VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM from SearchWinDevelopment.com Test-driven development in .NET yields complete unit test coverage TIP - Unit testing has brought around a new way of writing programs: first you write the tests, and then you write code that passes them. Microsoft cuts Visual Studio 2008 upgrade prices as VS 2010 looms ARTICLE - The company is also offering discounts on VSTS. Best of all, the upgrade prices apply even if you're currently using a free IDE like Visual Studio Express or IBM's Eclipse. Microsoft offers startups free development tools, MSDN subscription ARTICLE - BizSpark gives new ISVs free development tools, including full versions of Visual Studio. The company hopes the program will encourage startups to develop for Windows. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC .NET ARCHITECTURE BEST PRACTICES from SearchWinDevelopment.com Introduction to ASP.NET's Model View Controller (MVC) Design Pattern TIP - Microsoft is working on an MVC framework, which will let ASP.NET developers decouple their data, events and views and enable a more flexible application architecture. Free book from Microsoft brings patterns and practices to .NET TIP - The 400-page book on application architecture -- available free on codeplex -- is a good read that brings a long line of patterns and practices concepts to the .NET framework. Java application frameworks come to .NET ARTICLE - Several third-party frameworks with Java origins are making a strong push for the .NET world and bringing with them new methodologies that help write cleaner, more layered code. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC .NET WORKFLOW from SearchWinDevelopment.com Goin' mobile with Windows TIP - .NET Framework is a good start if you're interested in targeting the Windows Mobile platform. Find the necessary software development kits to begin programming mobile devices. Office System Developer Conference 2008 preview ARTICLE - Next week's Office System Developer Conference 2008 is a step forward for the notion that Office can be born again as a services-oriented application development platform. Book Excerpt: Executing activities in Windows Workflow Foundation TIP - Windows Workflow Foundation activities encapsulate domain-specific logic and control flow patterns. This chapter download shows how these activities are executed. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC .NET FRAMEWORK APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE from SearchWinDevelopment.com Distributed caching goes mainstream ARTICLE - Distributing caching technology is starting to gain head of stream in the industry with numerous software companies -- some old, some new -- vying for a larger piece of the market. Nick Allen's tips for developing SOA for .NET TIP - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is SOA for MS and Nicholas Allen's blog tells developers how to make it work. Visual Studio bridging plug-in speeds Java development ARTICLE - At JavaOne, JNBridge announced middleware tools that let Eclipse developers create .NET apps and Visual Studio developers access Java. VIEW ALL IN THIS TOPIC

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