Introducing the Visual Designers—From Objects to Services

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From Objects to Services

The design features provided by Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects have been influenced not only by Microsoft’s vision for model-driven development, but also by a technological evolution from object-based architectures through (distributed) component-based architectures to the service-oriented architectures (SOA) that represent the current best practice in distributed system design.

This section summarizes that evolution—in part to demonstrate that service orientation is a good idea, and in part as a natural lead-in to the first of the new visual designers, the Application Designer, which provides a DSL specifically for modeling interconnected service-based applications.