Summary

In this chapter we started the development lifecycle for the Orbital Hotel product.

The first phase is gathering the system specifications. Once the specifications are clear we analyze them and decide which application architecture is the most appropriate for its implementation. For the Orbital Hotel application, service-oriented architecture is the most appropriate because it allows the greatest flexibility and interoperability.

We then moved on to the design phase and designed the system's structure and components. We saw that when creating the Visual Studio .NET solution, we must take into account the best structure for solutions that will be developed under source control by multiple team members.

The best structure is the hierarchical solution structure that maps directly into the source control database and is the same on all the development machines preventing binding problems especially for web projects. The best way to develop web projects is by using the local file system...