List of Figures

Chapter 1: Understanding the .NET Framework

Figure 1-1: .NET acts as a middleware component between the application and Windows.

Figure 1-2: A typical three-tier web application without .NET

Figure 1-3: Web services can accept SOAP messages from almost any platform.

Figure 1-4: The ASP.NET testing interface for web services

Figure 1-5: Code being edited within the Visual Studio environment

Figure 1-6: Using Visio to create the conceptual and logical designs of an application

Chapter 2: Visualizing the Solution

Figure 2-1: A UML state diagram can be used to define a business process.

Figure 2-2: The enterprise technical architecture consists of five architecture types.

Chapter 5: An Overview of Object Role Modeling

Figure 5-1: Visio’s ORM Source Model template creates the ORM diagram for you.

Figure 5-2: The updated diagram including uniqueness constraints

Figure 5-3: The updated diagram including mandatory role constraints

Figure 5-4: The updated diagram including new value constraints

Chapter 6: Conceptual Design

Figure 6-1: A typical procedure diagram

Figure 6-2: A typical data flow diagram, which documents the data interactions of a system

Figure 6-3: A hierarchical diagram of the top-level screens of a simple data entry application

Chapter 7: Logical Design

Figure 7-1: A sample conceptual database design model

Chapter 8: Physical Design

Figure 8-1: The Windows Event Viewer in Windows XP

Figure 8-2: Details of one event inside the Event Viewer

Figure 8-3: An example of an unhandled error message

Chapter 9: Developing Standards for Your Solution

Figure 9-1: Bug convergence