1. Building Enterprise Applications Using Visual Studio®
Building Enterprise Applications Using Visual Studio® .NET Enterprise Architect
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2. Agenda Overview Enterprise software development process
Enterprise architect tools
Provide architectural guidance
Communicate application architecture
Capture business/data requirements
Ensure application scalability
Team development
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3. Overview Enterprise development is systematic
Collaborative work environment
Support for all roles essential
Standards help – e.g., UML, XML, etc.
Architectural guidance and reusable assets essential
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4. Enterprise Software Development Process
Envisioning
Requirements gathering, product vision
Planning
Architectural/technology decisions
Developing
Software/database design
Implementation
Testing
Documentation
Stabilizing
Deployment and maintenance
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5. Provide Architectural Guidance Enterprise templates
IT development projects are getting more complex, larger, and more critical
A poor application architecture can make any platform perform poorly
A good architecture only works if people follow the rules when implementing it
Good help is hard to find (and expensive!)
“Best practices” are useless if no one follows them
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6. Enterprise Templates What is it?
Things to Exclude
Enterprise Template
Policy (TDL)
Application Structure (projects, code, etc.)
Guidance (context & html)
Things to Include
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7. Enterprise Templates Features and the Visual Studio .NET IDE
Toolbox & Menu Constraints
Initial Project Structure
Constrain Additions
Property Constraints
Policy Task List Reminders
Dynamic Guidance
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8. Enterprise Templates Add “best practices” to frameworks
Organize structure for complex projects
Supply pre-built common implementation
Simplify IDE for newer developers
Help avoid common mistakes
Predefine common property settings
“Just in time” focused guidance
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9. demo
Enterprise Templates
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10. Communicate Application Architecture Modeling using UML
UML building blocks
Elements
Basic building blocks of a model
Relationships
Tie various “things” together
Diagrams
Show interesting collections of “things”
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11. Modeling Using UML Diagram types
Structural
Class
Behavioral
Use case, state chart, activity, sequence, collaboration
Implementation
Component, deployment
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12. Modeling Using UML Generating Code from UML design
Generate code into multiple Visual Studio languages
Perform semantic error checking on diagrams and code
Reverse engineering Visual Studio projects into design
Generating wide variety of customizable reports
Publishing diagrams and models on the intranet
Documenting your Visual Studio projects in the form of software architecture/designs
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13. demo
UML Modeling
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14. Capture Business Requirements Data Modeling
Conceptual, logical, and physical models
Leverage business domain experts with Object Role Modeling
Design and program enterprise databases
Visually design schema, tables, views
Visually develop stored procedures, SQL queries, user defined functions
Full support for both SQL Server and Oracle
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15. Data Modeling Business rules-based database design
Object Role Modeling (ORM)
Conceptual database design using natural language facts and examples
Logical and physical database models automatically built based on natural language facts
ORM is
Understandable
Reliable
Expressive
Stable
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16. Data Modeling
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17. Data Modeling Create an ER diagram
Tables window
Database Properties window
Stencils
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18. Data Modeling Reverse engineer database schema to create ER models
Drag tables (or views) onto diagram page
Modify code and attributes of the model
Validate your logical and physical data
Perform database/model synchronization
Generate physical database from your data model using ‘Generate Database’ wizard
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19. demo
Data Modeling
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20. Ensure Application Scalability Application Center Test
Provide end-to-end performance testing of applications
Use XML to store test properties and data
Replicate tests and results with application
Developers create tests
Operations continues to use tests in production
Common test framework throughout lifecycle
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21. Application Center Test Testing Web services and apps
Creating tests
Manually – Visual Basic Script, JScript, etc.
Browser record
Running tests
Set test parameters
View run-time reports
Trace information at run-time
Analyzing test results
Tabular performance data
Custom graphs
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22. demo
Testing With ACT
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23. Version Control System Visual SourceSafe
Team support
Secure file sharing and coordination
Version control
Maintains audit trails for project files
Software lifecycle management
Project branching, merging, history
Fully integrated with Visual Studio .NET
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24. Summary Provide architectural guidance
Enterprise templates
Communicate application architecture
Software modeling
Capture business requirements
Data modeling
Ensure application scalability
Application center test
Team development support
Version control system
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25. For More Information… MSDN Web site Visual Studio Web site
msdn.microsoft.com
Visual Studio Web site
msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio
Object Role Modeling resource
Application Center Test resource
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26. Discussion
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27. © 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.
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