What This Book Covers

This book will show you some of the best practices in designing an enterprise application that we have found invaluable in our own work. More and more our customers have asked for integration solutions over the last few years. With the introduction of SOAP and XML, we have found that we could use much of the same thinking when designing these applications as we used before. Of course, we have constantly evolved our thinking and refined our design patterns as new techniques have been introduced. A great source of inspiration and knowledge are Sten Sundblad and Per Sundblad, authors of Designing for Scalability Using Windows DNA (Microsoft Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-735-60968-3) and of course its follow-up, Design Patterns for Scalable Microsoft .NET Application (published through their own company and available at their Web site, http://www.2xsundblad.com). These guys know what they are talking about, so make sure to visit their Web site to learn more about their design patterns.