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A Necessary 101 on Professional Application Development

I’m in the job of establishing partnerships with different stakeholders (authors, readers, vendors, colleagues, etc.) in order to consolidate the vision depicted in my last post about the editorial line I’d like to promote thru this magazine . In order Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:25 PM by msdnmag | 0 Comments

brownfield development – other ideas?

If you haven’t been following it over the last couple of months, we’ve been running a series of articles about brownfield development – authored by James Kovacs , Kyle Baley , and Donald Belcham .  The big idea here is that rather than have yet another Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:21 PM by hdierking | 3 Comments

ASP.NET Presentation Patterns

In a layered Web app, the presentation layer is just as important as navigation logic, business logic, and data access. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Dino Esposito examines some design patterns for building an ASP.NET presentation layer, Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Design Patterns for Testability

Testability is both as an important quality of your designs and another tool you can use to create and think through designs. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Jeremy Miller examines the design issues, patterns, and principles that can enhance Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 5:39 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Patterns In Practice: Cohesion And Coupling

Well designed code keeps things that have to change together as close together in the code as possible and allows unrelated things in the code to change independently, while minimizing duplication in the code. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Building Composite Applications With WPF

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight provide developers with a simple, declarative means of quickly and easily delivering applications with rich user experiences. But as the number of moving parts increases, keeping the project under Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:36 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Patterns In Practice: Object Role Stereotypes

Designing software is often an exercise in managing complexity. You can take steps to limit the complexity of any given class by only assigning it a discrete set of responsibilities, applying a concept known as object role stereotypes. In the August 2008 Read More...
Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Data Points: The Entity Framework In Layered Architectures

When you evaluate any new technology, pattern, or strategy, you have to consider how that new piece of the puzzle is going to mesh with your existing application architecture. With the Entity Framework, integration is not a problem. In the July 2008 issue Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Patterns In Practice: The Open Closed Principle

The June 2008 issue features the first installment of a new MSDN Magazine column on software design fundamentals. We’ll discuss design patterns and principles in a manner that isn't bound to a specific tool or lifecycle methodology. In this issue, Jeremy Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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