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Architecture & Design Section Index

Architectural Considerations for SQL Azure
By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 26-Sep-11

When designing applications for SQL Azure, it is important to consider the architectural impact to achieve the best performance. In this article, we discuss some of the architectural considerations for an SQL Azure application.

Java Cloud Development: What Developers Need to Know
By Debu Panda
| Architecture & Design Article Published 20-Mar-11

If you are a Java developer and your organization is jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, here's what you can expect.

Creating a Simple Windows Azure Application
By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 09-Mar-11

To get on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud computing bandwagon, you need to understand how to develop applications targeting the platform. Discover how to create your first “Hello World” cloud application.

Explaining Cloud Computing to Your Pointy Haired Boss
By Brian Prince
| Architecture & Design Article Published 18-Feb-11

Any day now your pointy-haired boss is going to ask you about this cloud stuff. Do you have a strategy? Can you even define it? Discover how easily it is to explain the cloud to your boss, and begin to start a longer discussion on all aspects of cloud computing.

Overview of the Roles Within an Azure Application
By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 11-Feb-11

Before writing applications targeting the Windows Azure platform, you should understand the various roles within a hosted service.

Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Architecture & Design Article Published 22-Jul-10
How does Facebook deliver social networking to 500 million people? It takes a whole lot of storage and some open source goodness.

Fat Models and Skinny Controllers Bring Out the Best in Your MVC Framework
By Jason Gilmore
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Jan-10
Using an MVC framework? Pack the model with as much data-related logic as possible while maintaining a streamlined controller. You'll produce cleaner, more maintainable code.

Spruce up your next application with the WPF Ribbon
By Chris Bennett
| Architecture & Design Article Published 28-Dec-09
Is it time to give your next application a major user interface face lift? Try the WPF Ribbon as used in Microsoft Office 2007.

Rapid UI Prototyping with Microsoft Expression Blend 3
By Vlad Kofman
| Architecture & Design Article Published 21-Dec-09
In today's environment prototyping your UI can be paramount. This article will show users how to use the Microsoft Expression Blend 3 prototyping tool and discuss the differences between static, interactive and convertible prototypes.

Dynamic Language Support in the .NET 4.0 Framework
By Mark Strawmyer
| Architecture & Design Article Published 11-Dec-09
The focus of this article will be on the dynamic language support (DLR) that will be released as a part of the upcoming 4.0 version of the .NET Framework.

Declaring Anonymous Types in VB
By Paul Kimmel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 07-Dec-09
Using an anonymous type in VB, which is essential for technologies like LINQ, means that the compiler will generate a class for you based on context and named initializers saving you time and effort. To learn more read on.

Putting Architecture Principles into Practice
By Jeff Ryan
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Dec-09
Learn how to explicitly define the principles upon which your IT organization stands and practical advice for putting them into practice.

Dynamic Programming with Lambda Expressions
By Paul Kimmel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 25-Nov-09
Add ultimate flexibility and power to your programs with function parameters and Lambda Expressions.

Managing User Accounts with the Zend Framework
By Jason Gilmore
| Architecture & Design Article Published 16-Nov-09
The Zend_Auth component, part of the Zend Framework, provides a mechanism for authenticating users in your web apps. Jason Gilmore will show you how use this robust component to give users the ability to create their own accounts.

Why Code Coverage Tools Should Be in Every Developer's Toolbox
By Mike Rozlog
| Architecture & Design Article Published 21-Oct-09
Explore the world of code coverage tools that help developers create better code in less time.

Setting Up Azure and Deploying Your First Application
By Matt Goebel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 02-Oct-09
Learn how to use Windows Azure to setup and deploy your first application hosted in the "cloud."

Top Ten Tips for Presenting Architecture Information
By Jeff Ryan
| Architecture & Design Article Published 14-Sep-09
Have you ever struggled to communicate architectural information with stakeholders? Do you recognize that presenting data and information is a core competency of an architect? Consider putting these proven principles and patterns to use in your next presentation.

Understanding and Benefiting from Code Contracts in .NET 4.0
By Jani Järvinen
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Sep-09
One of the fundamental programming challenges is managing state. Chances are you have written dozens and dozens of methods that at the beginning check that certain conditions are met, and that another set of conditions is met when the method returns. With Code Contracts in .NET 4.0, you can make things considerably easier. Read on to learn how.

Architectural Layers and Tips on how to Achieve Architecture Consistency
By Raja Gangavarapu
| Architecture & Design Article Published 24-Aug-09
Architectural roles can make a project great or set you back to the drawing board. Read on to discover the many architectural roles in your project life cycle and how to achieve consistency throughout.

Performance Improvement: Bigger and Better
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 03-Aug-09
What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?

Performance Improvements: Caching
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 27-Jul-09
Caching can greatly improve performance but it can also lull you into a false sense of security. In some cases it can even make the performance worse. If you haven't already, then now is the time to learn the issues and limitations of caching so that you can truly improve performance.

Assembling "New" Service Based Solutions from Existing Services
By Surekha Durvasula
| Architecture & Design Article Published 22-Jul-09
This article demonstrates how an enterprise can improve time to market without sacrificing quality when offering new services: by leveraging investments made in existing services, incorporating best practices, and adopting a level of standardization.

Performance Improvement: Session State
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 20-Jul-09
Performance is critical to today's successful applications and web sites. If you design with an awareness of the session state management challenges you can always change your strategies to match your performance needs.

Going Parallel with the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ
By Jani Järvinen
| Architecture & Design Article Published 30-Jun-09
With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party.

Performance Improvement: Understanding
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 29-Jun-09
The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.

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