Who this book is for

This book is for the busy architect, developer, or manager who needs to advance their knowledge of the Microsoft application platform space. If you last evaluated the Microsoft platform offerings in 2009, then you are woefully out-of-date. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us. I'd like to hope that flipping through this book will increase your confidence when trying to figure out a consistent way to choose which Microsoft product to use.

If you are a developer looking to transfer your skills into architecture, then this book can help you take a big-picture approach to pattern detection in use cases and apply a broad range of evaluation criteria to product selection. Alternately, you may just want to get a short primer ...

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