Book on "Microsoft .NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developers" published
At MTC, over the years, our teams have released several handbooks on cutting edge Microsoft technologies like .NET Framework, SharePoint, Biztalk, etc. that were adored by our clients, and in a few cases helped differentiate and win Big deals. These handbooks are available here.
As part of further scaling this effort, first time with the help from external publisher (CRC press), we have published a complete book under the blessings of Infosys Press.
The book is titled ".NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developer" and is written by my colleague Suchi Paharia and me. You can see the press release here. It can be ordered from here
Microsoft .NET 4 is ubiquitous. Apart from being the core framework for several Microsoft Products, it is extensively used to build enterprise applications for internet (web), desktop, and Cloud (Windows Azure).
Often we have seen architects and developers due to lack of understanding, and time to research these have not been able to exploit the best of the features from the newer versions of frameworks, technologies in their enterprise assignments leading to many a times theoretically going through the drill of transitioning or using newer versions.
Through this book, we have tried to expedite and simplify the process of framework understanding while demonstrating enterprise application scenarios, explicitly calling out what we feel about the application of a specific feature in the enterprise use cases.
We expect that the book will be helpful to enrich your understanding of Microsoft .NET Framework 4 constituents such as Core runtime, Base Class Library(BCL) and BCL additions such as MEF, Parallel Programming; Server side programing frameworks such as WCF, WF, Entity Framework, and WCF Data Services. Though Windows Server AppFabric is not part of .NET Framework 4, we covered as we see it is emerging a standard host for lot of business logic programmed through WCF, WF and also supports distributed caching scenarios.
We sincerely hope this effort of ours is useful to our architect and developer community.
As an authors, we are indebted to following people, who helped and supported us in this journey,
• Bijoy Singhal and Harish Ranganathan (Architects, Microsoft Corp.) for the review support of the chapter manuscripts.
• SenthilKumar A and Sripriya Thothadri (Architects MTC, Infosys) for their help in reviews of the chapter manuscript
• Naveen Kumar (Principal Architect, MTC, Infosys) for seeding the idea of writing a book and supporting it all out till the end.
• Dr. Praveen Malla for helping with the process of identifying and on boarding the Infosys Press prescribed publisher.
• Prasad Joshi (Vice President, Infosys Labs) and Subu Goparaju (Senior Vice President, and Head Infosys Labs) for their sponsorship, encouragement and executive support.
• Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-Founder and Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys) for providing the foreword for the book
• CRC Press and Infosys Press publishing house teams
• Larger MTC and Infosys Labs team for their best wishes, encouragement and being great friends and colleagues at work.
