This article discusses the Microsoft guide
Application Architecture for .NET:
Designing Applications and Services. This guide contains design-level guidance for the architecture
and the design of Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications and services that
are built on Microsoft Windows 2000 and the .NET Framework 1.0. This guide
focuses on partitioning application functionality into components. The chapters
in this guide discuss the key design characteristics of components. They also
explain how security, management, and communication apply to each layer. This
guide also explains how to deploy the components.
The
Application Architecture for .NET:
Designing Applications and Services guide is made up of the following five chapters:
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
This chapter presents the overall goal of distributed
application design. It explains how services and service integration relate to
conventional application development. This chapter also contains a simple
retail scenario that is used for examples throughout the guide. - Chapter 2 - Designing the Components of an Application or
Service
This chapter discusses how a distributed application is built
by starting with the user interface. It identifies different types of
components or layers that are frequently used in successful applications. This
chapter describes the major technology or design decisions that you must
consider. This chapter also discusses a set of principles that you can use as a
guide when you design these components. - Chapter 3 - Security, Operational Management, and
Communications Policies
This chapter discusses how different policies, such as
authorization and exception management, affect the design of the application
layers. It describes how design decisions in these areas can affect your whole
application. This chapter also discusses how to choose the communication
mechanisms that your application will use. - Chapter 4 - Physical Deployment and Operational Requirements
This chapter discusses how to deploy the logical component
layers that are presented in the previous chapters in an infrastructure that is
built of many physical tiers. This chapter also describes common deployment
patterns that occur when the logical component layers, the physical tiers, and
the operational requirements are combined successfully. - Chapter 5 - Appendices
The appendices include a glossary, a map of Microsoft
products and technologies that you can use to implement or to enhance the
application component layers that are discussed in chapter 2, and a list of
related patterns and names that are applied to these layers in the computer
industry.
For more information about this guide, visit the following
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:
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