Download details: UIP Application Block

Download details: UIP Application Block: "The User Interface Process Application Block provides a simple yet extensible framework for developing user interface processes. It is designed to abstract the control flow and state management out of the user interface layer into a user interface process layer. This helps you write generic code for the control flow and state management for different applications types (for example, Web and Windows) and helps manage user's tasks in complex scenarios (for example, suspending and resuming tasks)."

Download details: Updater Application Block version 2.0

Download details: Updater Application Block version 2.0: "The Updater Application Block is a .NET Framework component that you can use to detect, download, and apply client application updates deployed in a central location. By using the Updater Application Block, you can keep smart client applications up to date with little or no user intervention. You can also extend the Updater Application Block to use custom classes for downloading files and for performing post-deployment configuration tasks."

Web Service Security

Web Service Security: "To design, develop, and deploy secure Web services, architects and developers must learn new technologies, and consider new threats associated with exposing functionality on potentially hostile networks. To prepare you to meet these challenges (both now on Web Service Enhancements 3.0 and in the future with Windows Communication Foundation), patterns & practices has created the Web Service Security guide. This guide provides a scenario-driven approach to demonstrate where different security patterns are successful, combined with a series of decision matrices to assist you in applying your own criteria for using Web service security patterns in your environment."

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Management at the Edge in Industry Verticals

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Management at the Edge in Industry Verticals: "Enterprises today need to be agile and flexible enough to rapidly adapt to changing business conditions by bringing new products and services to market, adjusting internally to support business changes, and tightly controlling risks. Management is critical in achieving these goals. The IT department must be able to monitor systems and discover problems and resolve them before they affect the operations; however, the legacy infrastructure used for management is consuming the majority of the enterprise's IT budget in costly maintenance activities, leaving few resources to make the IT advances required. This paper provides the importance of management at the edge in the industry verticals and how Microsoft products can help in this area. "

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide: "Many organizations have made multi-million dollar investments in customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other line of business (LOB) applications over the last decade. Although many of these applications have delivered significant business benefits, some organizations have found that these bespoke systems have not provided the expected returns on investment. One of the argued reasons for this is that specialized enterprise systems, databases, and applications do not integrate well with information worker workflows."

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Stored Procedure Object Interface Layer

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: Stored Procedure Object Interface Layer: "A stored procedure is a T-SQL program that executes on SQL Server and returns parameter values and/or a ResultSet. Business rules are often encoded in stored procedures, so many applications involve calling stored procedures and processing the data they return. Invoking Stored Procedures in ADO.NET requires a lot of code for each instance. It also causes the developer to switch from an OO paradigm into a functional paradigm with relational data. This is time-consuming and error-prone. Instead, SPOIL creates an OO layer of abstraction between the application and the database. At the highest level, SPOIL creates an object abstraction exposing a stored procedure as methods on managed classes."

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation

MSDN Solution Architecture Center: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation: "Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. (For a good overview of SOA and related concepts in Microsoft's connected systems strategy, please refer to Service Orientation and Its Role in Your Connected Systems Strategy.) The concepts embodied by service-orientation evolved out of long-standing efforts to modularize and distribute complex computer systems that reflect and support the reality of the distributed business world."

Representing Datacenters with Logical Datacenter Designer

Representing Datacenters with Logical Datacenter Designer: "Logical Datacenter Designer (LDD) is used to create diagrams of interconnected logical servers that represent the logical structure of a datacenter. These logical datacenter diagrams communicate important information to the developer about the target deployment environment. Using this designer, infrastructure architects can specify and configure the types of servers in the datacenter, the types of communications allowed, specific communication pathways, and types of services enabled. Logical datacenter diagrams will typically be created and owned by infrastructure architects, but will be used by developers. "

: Modeling and Tools: Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 2

: Modeling and Tools: Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 2: "Logical Datacenter Designer is used to create models that describe the policies and logical structure of a datacenter, including servers, firewalls, communication paths, security constraints, and other configuration requirements that affect the deployment of application systems into a datacenter. Here, we'll look at how to build a simple model using the Designer."

: Modeling and Tools: Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 1

: Modeling and Tools: Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 1: "Logical Datacenter Designer is used to create models that describe the policies and logical structure of a datacenter, including servers, firewalls, communication paths, security constraints, and other configuration requirements that affect the deployment of application systems into a datacenter. Logical Datacenter Designer is integrated with other Distributed System Designers, included in Visual Studio Team System. All of the designers leverage a common XML-based metafile format known as the System Definition Model (SDM). Logical Datacenter Designer is an effective tool for communicating between IT professionals and system architects."