Paul Kimmel explains just how straightforward Lambda expressions, generics, and delegates really are....   Read Article.

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In many cases, the platform, tools, and architecture for composition introduce new technical complexity that is overwhelming in itself. This chapter introduces the notion of composite applications as an architectural pattern for solving this problem....   Read Article.

Thanks to some forward thinking by early intellectuals, we have reasonably defined standards. This paper discusses the importance and benefits of standards, and some of the exciting work that is being done in the food-services standards area....   Read Article.

Use of an insurance-industry scenario to demonstrate interoperability capabilities of the MS platform. Using protocol-level standards alone isn't enough; capturing the business side of messaging transactions is key to making interoperability work for you....   Read Article.

Integrated Desktop is a loosely coupled hosting architecture and composite UI that runs on the desktop and is supported by a loosely coupled architecture on the back end. It collapses the number of applications a user must deal with when making decisions....   Read Article.

If you were to build a new communications protocol from scratch, how would you address security? Here the authors take a look at that question and generate some valuable insights into secure protocols....   Read Article.

Because of the popularity of multiprocessor machines, many concurrency articles focus on how to make concurrency safe in your code. This article deals with how to get concurrency into your code in the first place....   Read Article.

P2P applications face a number of barriers preventing their wide adoption as a productivity solution. Fortunately Windows Vista improves the situation....   Read Article.

This cohesive collection of guidance enables architects and developers to design and build higher quality services and achieve more predictable results in less time by applying proven practices and patterns directly within Visual Studio 2005....   Read Article.

This book presents an interesting set of classical papers on architecting services by a variety of well-known authors in the architectural space....   Read Article.

Describes the opportunities and business benefits of RFID in the Aerospace and Defense sector. It looks at various scenarios where RFID is and can be used to solve business problems....   Read Article.

This white paper outlines and describes a new infrastructure, based on Microsoft technologies, that includes each of the building blocks developers need to build successful, plug-and-play vertical applications, faster and more efficiently than ever....   Read Article.

This IBM Redbook explains the key products and components that are included in the WebSphere RFID solution, with a focus on WebSphere RFID Premises Server and Device Infrastructure. You will learn how to install and to configure the Premises Server, to connect and to communicate with your edge devices, and to implement the Dock Door Receiving Starter...   Read Article.

Sessions offers guidelines for creating an effective enterprise architecture through the use of partitioned iteration, a process drawn from the lessons of probability theory and war strategy....   Read Article.

This article introduces automated identity management (IDm) through solutions such as Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS). It focuses on how these solutions can address the needs of the Retail and Hospitality industries in particular....   Read Article.

Automate business activities effectively and efficiently by using service-orientation with Web services....   Read Article.

Design flaws account for 50% of security problems. You can?t find design defects by staring at code?a higher-level understanding is required. That?s why architectural risk analysis plays an essential role in any solid software security program. Find out more about architectural risk analysis in this sample chapter....   Read Article.

In his years as product manager for a wide variety of tech products, Louis Columbus has learned several useful lessons regarding what strategies work best to support the products and, ultimately, the company's bottom line. Share his knowledge in this article....   Read Article.

Grady Booch discusses his current project: creating a handbook of software architecture patterns and their context....   Read Article.