Thought Leadership

Custom Development and Architectural Guidance

Are you facing a business application development challenge? Let RDA design a custom solution for you.

Sometimes business requirements cannot be addressed by existing products. Those products may need to be extended, or a completely new solution may need to be built. However, there are numerous frameworks, platforms and techniques available to you. We help our customers by analyzing different architectural drivers and recommending the options that are most appropriate for a given scenario. We have significant experience in architectural design, multiple development processes, application lifecycle management and rich web application development. We can work with you to find the right solutions and ensure consistency and maintainability of your business application development projects.

RDA also provides architectural guidance, which delivers added value to our customers, including shorter development times, the use of accepted patterns and practices, and well-tested code.

 

The Latest

Squires Interviewed for ARCast.TV

Check out the most recent ARCast episode, Architecting Solutions with Microsoft Azure AppFabric, featuring an interview with RDA Principal Architect Damon Squires! Damon and Zhiming Xue of Microsoft discuss where in a typical enterprise solution Microsoft Azure AppFabric -- consisting of the Service Bus and the Access Control Service -- may be used, how on-premise data are communicated with these services running in the cloud, and what benefits such a hybrid solution may bring to enterprise customers. Through his first-hand experience of working with the Azure AppFabric, Damon shares a few tips on configurations of service end-points and a workaround for debugging a solution based on the Azure App Fabric.

 

Stefanovich Article Highlighted on MSDN

Congratulations to RDA Principal Architect Steve Stefanovich, who's recent DevX article, Reliable Sessions Made Simple with WCF, was picked up on the main WCF page on MSDN.

 

Articles and White Papers

Learn more about the emerging technologies and innovative business solutions related to custom development.

• Key Reasons to Migrate to Azure
• Profiling Energy Usage for Efficient Consumption
• Windows Mobile Power Management
• Visual Studio 2008 Highlights
• Building an Extranet with Forms-Based Authentication using WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007
• Visual Studio 2005 Tips and Tricks

RDA has worked with Microsoft patterns & practices as a leader in custom .NET architecture. Learn more about the technical guidance for solution architects and developers that RDA helped produce.

• Microsoft patterns & practices
• SAML, EDRA, and more
• Web Service Security Guide
• Web Service Software Factory
• Security Policy Assertion Language
• Microsoft Smart Client Guidance

Technically Speaking

Which technologies does RDA work with? Find out.