Infrastructure Architecture

The Infrastructure Landscape: A Matter of Perspective
This article offers a quick exploration of an infrastructure-architecture model that really works.

Are We Engineers or Craftspeople?
What is software engineering, and should we care?

ARCast.TV: Training - Architect as Advocate
Have you ever been in trouble with the law? I hope not, but if you ever were arrested in the US they would tell you that you have "...the right to remain silent" and "...You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present duri... more

Software-Engineering Asset Management
When users ask for what they need, it's not enough to tell them what you have. When someone looks for the answer to a problem, users will (hopefully) understand what the problem is, but probably will not understand the solution yet. Software-engineer... more

"Are We There Yet?" Estimation and Tracking on the Road to Software Development and Implementation
Cost estimation and tracking are two very important elements in software development and implementation, but the relationship between them is even more important.

Architecture Journal Profile: Don Ferguson
Dr. Donald Ferguson is a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy in the Office of the CTO. Don focuses on both the evolutionary and revolutionary role of information technology in business. Prior to joining Microsoft, Don was an IBM Fell... more

Murphy�s Law Manifests on Manic Monday
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is an integrated series of best practices in IT service management that conform to the British Standards Institution standard (BS15000), with over 1,00,000 certified practitioners worldwide. IT... more

Strengthen Access Control with Enterprise Identity Management Architecture
Without robust identity management, we can never be confident of our security.

Infrastructure Architecture
An introduction to a new branch of architecture that is urgently needed to support modern organizations, and needed to help architecture to mature as a whole.

Validating ASP.NET Query Strings
Recent statistics show that cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are gaining momentum and they claim the lion's share of discovered attacks. Successful XSS attacks are always due to unvalidated or improperly validated input data, and more often than no... more

Team Foundation Server Version Control
Visual Studio Team System provides extensibility options for almost every area of the product, and the Version Control service is a shining example. Using the rich APIs, we create a simple add-in that lets you put Word documents into the Team Foundat... more

Inside Diagnostic Tools for .NET
Many diagnostic tools use the CLR Profiling API-even those that aren't strictly profilers. So if you've ever wondered how these tools work, a look at the Profiling API is a good start. In this column, you'll see how they work and look at some useful... more

Documenting And Evaluating The Security Guarantees Of Your Apps
This article discusses: Analyzing the security of application features; A deeper look at security requirements; A top-down security design extension to SDL; and Disclosing details to users and experts.

8 Simple Rules For Developing More Secure Code
This article discusses: Using analysis tools and experts to review your code; Reducing risk using fuzzing and threat modeling; Keeping bad input out of your applications; and Learning all you can about security concepts.

MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint Server 2007
Find out how to extend the Web content management authoring and rendering features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Topics we cover in this webcast include extensions to the navigation system, creating new document to page converters, and... more

MSDN Webcast: Load and Web Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
By using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System as a platform, you can better manage the software development life cycle. You have the flexibility to customize and extend this platform to meet organizational needs. In this webcast, gain a general u... more

Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects
This article discusses SystemDomain, SharedDomain, and DefaultDomain; Object layout and other memory specifics; Method table layout and Method dispatching

Simplify App Deployment with ClickOnce and Registration-Free COM
This article discusses: The benefits of Reg-Free COM. How to isolate existing COM components and ActiveX controls using Visual Studio 2005. The limitations of Reg-Free COM.

Mitigate Security Risks by Minimizing the Code You Expose to Untrusted Users
This article discusses: Identifying and reducing attack surface, Reducing the amount of code executing by default, Reducing the volume of code accessible to untrusted users and Limiting damage if hackers do attack your code

Web Farms: Use Data Caching Techniques to Boost Performance and Ensure Synchronization
In this article the author describes data caching in a Web farm environment and discusses how to avoid the cross-server synchronization problems inherent in this approach.

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