Suggest a good design and architecture book for .Net development

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Anyone please suggest a good design and architecture book for .Net.

Is there any book I can refer to which has case studies, examples, etc. so that I can update my knowledge well in this field?

In case it's not available for .Net, please suggest in Java also.

Thanks in advance Swapna MC

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/490807/c-design-patterns-book , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/324824 , etc. — Matthew Flaschen, Jun 04 '09 at 05:58
I don't know if it's an exact duplicate, design patterns and architecture patterns are different enough. — Andy White, Jun 04 '09 at 06:00
Agreed...there are design patterns, and there is architecture. — jrista, Jun 04 '09 at 06:03

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 05:54

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I would recommend this book: .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise

Not a .net book, but the classic book here is Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

answered Jun 04 '09 at 05:54

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+1 from me for .NET Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. I'm reading it now and it is pretty good. It is a good companion book for POEAA. – RichardOD Aug 12 '09 at 08:45
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These two books are the best place to start – Craig Schwarze Jan 03 '10 at 21:51

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 07:08

Here are some enterprise architecture books that contain case studies. They are not restricted to .Net, since at the architecture level many patterns and practices will apply irrespective of the specific platform choice:

Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises by Roger Sessions

Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise by Hugh Taylor; Angela Yochem; Les Phillips; Frank Martinez

Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals by Krishna Sankar; Susan A. Bouchard

Beautiful Architecture Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design By Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios

Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition by Len Bass; Paul Clements; Rick Kazman

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Modern ESB Architecture for SOA By: Thomas Erl; Mark Little; Arnaud Simon; Thomas Rischbeck (Not yet published, expected 10/2009)

SOA Governance: The key to successful SOA adoption in your organization by Todd Biske (uses fictional case study)

Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices by Dirk Krafzig; Karl Banke; Dirk Slama

Applied SOA: SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STRATEGIES by Michael Rosen; Boris Lublinsky; Kevin T. Smith; Marc J. Balcer

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 06:01

A good design book, period, is Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Also a great design book is Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans.

Another useful book is Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET.

If you are interested in SOA, the true compendium of SOA was written by Thomas Erl:

And forthcoming:

Modern ESB Architecture for SOA

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 15 '10 at 00:25

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In general I would see architecture books independent of Java or .NET or any other language. I found this blog post which lists 5 books for an architect.

I hope you would find it interesting too.

answered Dec 15 '10 at 00:25

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 05:49

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I would recommend start by reading the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide

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Andy White · Answer 6 · 2009-06-04T05:59:20.500

Here's are a few good enterprise architecture books (based on Java, but the general concepts still apply):

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Core J2EE Patterns (book or website)

A few of these patterns are a little old, but still useful to know.

If you're interested in WCF for a service-oriented architecture:

Or for framework design:

Framework Design Guidelines

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 06:21

Architectural approaches can vary greatly depending on what you're trying to build. I.e.- Architecting a specific software's internal's, or architecting a distributed system, etc.

For a given software program's internals, I like Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture as a good reference.

I have also used the SEDA architectural style for some high throughput event-driven applications. The SEDA homepage has the original paper and references to other projects using this style. You might have heard of the Java Open Source projects: MULE and Apache Camel.

Also check out Enterprise Integration Patterns, which is a great companion book to PoEAA. This one pretty much helps you architect the interconnection between distributed systems. Lots of tools in this area... from XMPP to AMQP, to MULE, to JMS, etc.

And I have to suggest reviewing the REST Architectural Style since it is important in today's web software. There is a lot of material about REST, but primarily read (and reread) Roy Fielding's dissertation.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 18 '10 at 17:23

This is not a book but NDepend documentation comes with some pretty cool online blog posts, articles and white books concerning architecture of .NET code:

Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies

Control Components Dependencies to gain Clean Architecture

Re-factoring, Re-Structuring and the cost of Levelizing

Evolutionary Design and Acyclic componentization

Layering, the Level metric and the Discourse of Method

Fighting Fabricated Complexity