Previously: Architecting Linq to SQL, part 9 End of the line This is intended to be the last part in this series and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a number of related if diverse topics. I would like to look at what I would like to see in the next version, and talk about when and where...

Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook. The short answer is ‘all the time’ and ‘just-in...

Previously: Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 7 Tiers A layer, such as we discussed Part 2 , in is not a tier. A layer is a logical unit of division; a tier is a physical unit of division. The two need not be the same. Software may be layered within a single process running on one machine or...