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PUBLIC MARKS from tadanderson with tag patterns

February 2009

Programming Entity Framework Book Review

This is definitely the book to have by your side if you are programming with the ADO.NET Entity Framework 1.0....

January 2009

Enterprise Architect 7.5 beta 1 Available

This major release includes a huge number of new features, enhancements and performance boosters. In addition, three new Enterprise Architect editions featuring advanced code generation from executable UML models, bundled tools and technology frameworks provide a powerful, cost-effective solution for advanced business, systems and software development.....

Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide Book Review

This book does an excellent job of introducing the reader to the soft skills needed to succeed as a software architect.....

December 2008

Microsoft .NET Architecting Applications for the Enterprise Book Review

This book does a great job of putting architecture into a view that .NET developers and architects can relate to.....

Framework Design Guidelines (2nd Edition) Book Review

If you are doing .NET development, you must have this book by your side. It is a great reference and it is very readable. It is great to just flip through and pick out a topic or to read from start to finish.........

September 2008

Prism V2 Drop 1 (aka Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)

The patterns and practices team has made their first drop of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (Prism V2).

MS and patterns and practices News- Prism 2.0, App Arch Guide project, and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

The patterns and practices crew and MS has announced a few interesting projects they are working on. Prism 2.0, Application Architecture Guide project, and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).

August 2008

SEI Architecture Expert (ArchE) tool Version 3.0 is Available

The SEI Architecture Expert (ArchE) tool is a design assistant that helps architects explore architectural designs driven by quality attributes. ArchE shows the architect proposals for improving the current architecture and allows the architect to decide on the best alternative. ....

July 2008

Composite Application Guidance for WPF Release Version Available

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications.

April 2008

Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development Book Review

This book is a gold mine of wisdom. This book contains a ton of wisdom that has come out of the software engineering field over the years. It brings together a lot of software development best practices that can be found in other resources and puts them together under the umbrella of Emergent Design.

March 2008

ASP.NET 3.5 MVC Preview 2 Available for Download

The ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 provides an early look at an upcoming framework for building ASP.NET web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.

February 2008

Visual Development Case UML Profile for SPARX Enterprise Architect (EA)

This Visual Development Case UML Profile for SPARX Enterprise Architect is intended to make creating a development case easier and more of a visual process.

Cool Links IV- .NET 3.5, Architecture, AJAX, UML, EPF, Patterns, GOF, VSTS 2008, WPF, Silverlight, SQL 2008, XAML

This is the fourth installment of cool links. It includes links on .NET 3.5, Architecture, AJAX, UML, EPF, Patterns, GOF, VSTS 2008, WPF, Silverlight, SQL 2008, XAML, SPARX EA, Visio, Seam Carving, New Books, FXCop, etc.

C# 3.0 Design Patterns Book Review

I found this book to be a very good treatment of the GOF patterns. The content is well organized and has a very clean feel to it. All in all I think this is a great C# GOF Patterns book and would recommend it to anyone that wants to learn to implement the GOF patterns with the latest C# language features available.

GOF Design Patterns, AntiPatterns, and Refactoring Tutorials, Videos, and Book

This is a nice site for getting up to speed on the GOF Design Patterns, AntiPatterns, and Refactoring. They offer online written tutorials, video tutorials, and they also offer a hard copy of their material in a book.

January 2008

Web Application Extension (WAE) ASPX Patterns for SPARX Enterprise Architect (EA)

We have added a new download to the Software Process Engineering site. WAE ASPX Patterns. They are UML patterns created using SPARX Enterprise Architect (EA) and they are indented to be used with the Web Application Extension (WAE) UML Profile.

New Web Client Software Factory Modularity Bundle from patterns & practices

Modularity is the separation of an application in independent and collaborative modules. You use modules to encapsulate a set of concerns of your application and independently develop and deploy them to your applications. These modules are developed and maintained by multiple teams.

.NET Architecture and Development Book Recommendations

We have updated our .NET Architecture and Development Book Recommendations page on the Real World Software Process Engineering site. We have posted a version of what is there in this blog. We will however only make updates to the page on the SPE website.

December 2007

Service Factory - Modeling Edition CTP (VS2008) Available

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. These resources consist of models with code generation in the form of tools integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance.