Application Architecture Guide 2.0

The Patterns & Practices team is finally going to update their fantastic Application Architecture Guide. Since it’s release in 2002 this guide has been a favorite of mine. It’s somewhat dated but it contains sound design principles that stand the test of time.

Now the team is working on V2, which is planned for the first half of 2009. You can follow their work through the Application Architecture 2.0 Knowledge Base on Codeplex.

You can also follow the work and additional discussions on the subject through J. D. Meier’s blog.

I believe this is a great piece of guidance and am sure it will help shape the near future of application and service architecture on the Microsoft platform.