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patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0

Welcome to the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project site! This guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts.

This guide is related to our Application Architecture Guide v2.0 Knowledge Base Project. The App Arch Knowledge Base includes a large amount of material that elborates on specific topics in the main guide. How Tos for example. It also includes material from the main guide that is targeted and packaged for more specifc audiences, such as the Pocket Guide series.

- J.D. Meier, Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr, Akshay Bogawat

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Parts

Part I, Fundamentals
Part II, Design
Part III, Layers
Part IV, Archetypes

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Chapters

Part I, Fundamentals

Part II, Design

Part III, Layers

Part IV, Archetypes

Appendix

Errata Page

Errata Page

Team

Core Dev Team: J.D. Meier, Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr, Akshay Bogawat
Test Team - Rohit Sharma, Praveen Rangarajan, Kashinath TR, Vijaya Jankiraman
Edit Team - Dennis Rea
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