Chapter 9. Architecture

This chapter and the next one are dedicated to different views of application development. In Chapter 10, Design Patterns, we will cover design patterns, good practices, and different solutions provided by the theorists about them. However, in this chapter, our goal is the structure of the application itself and the tools available its construction.

In this chapter, first, we'll recommend a very useful guide to help you in the selection of the model to be used, depending on the application you have to build; and we'll go on to the process itself, as recommended by Microsoft Solutions Framework and its Governance Model. Security planning and design should also be considered by creating a Threat Model, addressing security scenarios.

To adequately build the different deliverables that the application's life cycle requires, we'll use Visio and check how this tool can be the perfect complement to the application's architect team, with all types of templates to help in the...