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hi guys,

I am soon be given the task of laying architecture of .net application.

The irony is that till now i have been part of designing one .net application:)

So i have to start from very beginning, which book would be the best.

Should i start seeing the books on microsoft certified architecture

program

Cheers

Andre Odendaal
Look at the patterns and practices books from the p&p-team of microsoft, and... alot more ;-) software architecture in practice [sec. edition] is a nice one to look at.
AvalonNewbie

I just want to be a little more specific than people suggesting to check Patterns & Practices content

Although it's a little old-fashioned (it was written the end of 2002), chapter 2 of book "Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services" is a good starting point

http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/apparchch2.asp

Warning: it mentions some paleozoic technologies like Biztalk 2002 and so on but, in terms of architecture, what it makes the difference its the concept, not its implementation
Eli.weiwang

You might want to look at my site for some of the activities invovled in designing an architecture:

www.rgoarchitects.com/saf

Arnon
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