Planning Distributed Applications
Visual Studio .NET 2003
In the process of planning a distributed application, application architects and developers make numerous design decisions and technology choices. Sometimes the application dictates the decision; at other times, there is more freedom of choice. Ironically, it is when choices abound that problems arise. In these situations, the question that application architects and developers must answer is not "What will work?" but "What will work best?" The topics in this section focus on making informed decisions when planning distributed applications.
In This Section
- Choosing Tools and Technologies
- Provides recommendations on which tool or technology to use for a variety of situations.
- Modeling Your Application and Data
- Explains the purpose of application and data modeling in the application design process and introduces Universal Modeling Language (UML).
- Planning World-Ready Applications
- Gives links to topics with guidance on planning and developing world-ready applications.
- Designing Accessible Applications
- Provides links to topics that focus on developing applications that are enabled for use by the broadest spectrum of users.
Related Sections
- Building Applications
- Gives information on creating ASP.NET Web applications and Windows Forms applications.
- Introduction to Distributed Applications and Data Integration
- Discusses data integration in distributed, scalable applications.
- Enterprise Samples
- Provides links to the two enterprise samples included in Visual Studio, which demonstrate distributed applications that use the .NET Framework.
- Enterprise Templates for Distributed Applications
- Lists links explaining the advantages and uses of Enterprise Templates in developing a reusable structure for complex distributed applications.
