When building a line-of-business (LOB) app there are numerous things to consider.  Of course you need a great user experience, but what about validating user input, user authentication, how do you deal with application state across suspend-resume, do you roam app state across devices, and there...

The patterns&practices team at Microsoft has just released an update to last year’s Windows Phone Developer Guide. With release of Windows Phone 7.5, and the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK, the team has updated the guide to “A Case Study for Building Advanced Windows Phone Applications: Connecting with Cloud...

The patterns & practices team at Microsoft has released version 2 of the Composite Application Guidance (previously called Prism), now with support for WPF and Silverlight. If you are looking for guidance in building modular WPF and Silverlight line-of-business applications, this should be your first...

My colleague Philippe’s blog brought this to my attention: a knowledge base on Application Architecture with literally tons of documents. patterns & practices Application Architecture KB Including: Application Types (Archetypes) , Architecture and Design , Cheat Sheets , 4 pocket guides and much...

The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft has just released Unity for Silverlight, which is the “ Unity Application Block 1.2 ” ported to Silverlight 2. Unity Application Block 1.2 for Silverlight - December 2008 Unity for Silverlight page on MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd362339...

Last week the p&p group released v1 of the guidance documentation “ Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF ”. WCF is quite a complex subject and more guidance on how to securely implement serices is very important for developers. This guidance now tackles...

The Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF earlier this month. As I blogged about earlier , composite WPF which was code named “Prism” previously, provides guidance in building composite WPF applications. When you download the package you get a...

Prism is the codename for the new guidance for Composite Application development for WPF . This is not an update to CAB (Composite UI Application Block), it delivers a new set of assets and guidance for developing new Composite WPF applications. As it is not based on previous smart client offerings it...

The Microsoft patterns & practices is really keeping busy: after a new release of the Web Client Software Factory they have now announced a new addition to the p&p library, the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 . The Service Factory contains automation and...

The Microsoft patterns & practices team has just released a new version of the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF). The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications, with includes samples, reusable code and a guidance...

Microsoft patterns & practices has announced the February 2008 release of the GAT and GAX. This new release includes support for Visual Studio 2008 as many were waiting for. The main improvements to the July 2007 CTP release are the following: Support for Visual Studio 2005 and/or Visual...