In this episode we will be taking a look at how to implement a RESTful service using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). We will start off by taking a look at what a RESTful service is and the move on to actually creating one with WCF

Composite Applications: The New Paradigm
Composite applications are moving the power from the developer to the user. See how this shift is com...

Bare-Naked Languages or What Not to Model
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful as stand-alone languages, but not everyone knows when or...

Reliability in Connected Systems
Loosely coupled, asynchronous, service-oriented applications impose unique reliability requirements. Learn ab...

Building Applications on a Workflow Platform
A workflow is important for resolving business problems. Examine a range of applications that dem...

Taking Governance to the Edge
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) gives businesses a new way of getting work done, but SOA brings with it the...

Architecture in the systems world is as vast as the galaxy, and architects who operate in it have unique challenges like no other role that comes to...

It has been several years now since .NET hit the streets and created momentum around Microsoft's vision of connecting people and processes together,...

Welcome to the summer issue of JOURNAL. These last few months have been really exciting for architecture as a topic at Microsoft. The

Welcome to the spring issue of JOURNAL. With this second issue we've gone global. This is a direct result of the tremendous feedback for JOURNAL1 fr...

Welcome to the inaugural issue of JOURNAL! Software architecture is a tough thing—a vast, interesting, and largely unexplored subject area. As an ar...

In this episode we take a look at how to create and write test with Team Foundation Server (TFS). You will learn how you can use Team System to create test shells from existing code, as well as how to modify and run those tests.