Since the most fundamental program ever written it seems some architects and software developers feel the need to demonstrate, what they believe, is their superior software engineering skills by designing to an additional unspecified requirement. The...

Join Doug Purdy as he talks about the importance of the Open Data Protocol (OData) to Architects. Doug will provide context regarding the rise of OData, and the challenges it seeks to solve. Then, through both demo and discussion, Doug will explain why...

In July last year I wrote a blog post , and associated connect item , where I discussed the possibility of executing Visual Studio Team System unit tests in parallel upon multi-core architectures. It seems that there were others on the Visual Studio...

Welcome to An Architects Perspective , my new blog on blogs.msdn.com where I'll be posting about all things related to software architecture and software development. You're probably wondering who I am? I have just joined Microsoft as a Senior Architect...