Monday, December 8, 2008

Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Mobile applications

Inside the well-known pattern & practices application architecture guide now we can find a entirely chapter focused on mobile applications.

I'm talking about chapter 19, which after taking a look at a glance I find out a differents sections like identifying application components, learning the design considerations as well as the key scenearios where mobile applications would be used.

This chapter also talks about a wide variety of aspects of application development like communications, data access components, debugging, deployment, performance and synchronization.

This last section, doesn't talks about the last Microsoft technology for sync scenarios, MS Sync Services for ADO.NET. Although this technology is still in the first version, and doesn't runs on MS Sync Framework, I think that it would have been great to drop a few lines explaining what will sync services resolve and what will be the difference with RDA and merge replication.

Despite of that, chapter 19 of application architecture guide 2.0 is a must.