MS App Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition – download

Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition – free download **

The guide helps you to:

• Understand the underlying architecture and design principles and patterns for developing successful solutions on the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework.
• Identify appropriate strategies and design patterns that will help you design your solution’s layers, components, and services.
• Identify and address the key engineering decision points for your solution.
• Identify and address the key quality attributes and crosscutting concerns for your solution.
• Create a candidate baseline architecture for your solution.
• Choose the right technologies for your solution.
• Identify patterns & practices solution assets and further guidance that will help you to implement your solution.

File : Application Architecture Guide v2.pdf & Date Published: 11/20/2009 

Download here – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ce40e4e1-9838-4c89-a197-a373b2a60df2

How to hide your personal folders easily !!

This is very old technic, but comes handy when you share your personal/office systems in short notice.

Try this in cmd prompt,

      To hide, e:/>attrib +h +s +r <foldername>

      To revert e:/>attrib -h -s -r <foldername>

Note : i) it will be still hidden even if you set ‘show all hidden files’ under folder options and also using advanced searches too. But you’ve to keep note of your folder name to revert back 😉

patterns & practices -Application Architecture Book

Contents at a Glance 
The full Microsoft Application Architecture Guide is available for free on MSDN in HTML.  This is the contents of the guide at a glance:

• Foreword by S. Somasegar
• Foreword by Scott Guthrie
• Preface by David Hill

Chapters

• Chapter 1: What is Software Architecture?
• Chapter 2: Key Principles of Software Architecture
• Chapter 3: Architectural Patterns and Styles
• Chapter 4: A Technique for Architecture and Design
• Chapter 5: Layered Application Guidelines
• Chapter 6: Presentation Layer Guidelines
• Chapter 7: Business Layer Guidelines
• Chapter 8: Data Layer Guidelines
• Chapter 9: Service Layer Guidelines
• Chapter 10: Component Guidelines
• Chapter 11: Designing Presentation Components
• Chapter 12: Designing Business Components
• Chapter 13: Designing Business Entities
• Chapter 14: Designing Workflow Components
• Chapter 15: Designing Data Components
• Chapter 16: Quality Attributes
• Chapter 17: Crosscutting Concerns
• Chapter 18: Communication and Messaging
• Chapter 19: Physical Tiers and Deployment
• Chapter 20: Choosing an Application Type
• Chapter 21: Designing Web Applications
• Chapter 22: Designing Rich Client Applications
• Chapter 23: Designing Rich Internet Applications
• Chapter 24: Designing Mobile Applications
• Chapter 25: Designing Service Applications
• Chapter 26: Designing Hosted and Cloud Services
• Chapter 27: Designing Office Business Applications
• Chapter 28: Designing SharePoint LOB Applications

via – http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2009/11/05/now-available-patterns-practices-application-architecture-book.aspx