Focusing on Solutions, Not Infrastructure

The bottom-line goal of using Windows DNA is to enable you to focus on solutions, rather than infrastructure. When your application is built using Windows DNA, the vari ous components will be able to scale up to meet user demands. Microsoft has built much of the complexity of scaling into the system services and operating system. By doing this Microsoft lets you focus on the solution, rather than on the complexities, of building transactional scalable systems. Taking advantage of the system services is one of the great benefits of using the Windows DNA architecture.

Caution

One word of caution up front: Because of backward compatibility in development tools, it is possible to develop applications that ...

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