Where to go next
As we stated back in the introduction, this book is not a tutorial on the Microsoft application platform. Nor does it provide you with a cookie-cutter checklist for each and every technology problem you encounter. Rather, I hope that you walk away from this book and do three things:
1. Take a more holistic approach to selecting the underlying technology for your solutions. Investigate your use case and aggressively pursue functional, non-functional, and derived requirements in order to get the full scope of the problem at hand. Then assess the software platform components against the key dimensions of evaluation.
2. Customize the decision framework to meet your organizational needs. While we think that our four categories of consideration (design, development, operations, and organization) sufficiently cover your key stakeholders, this model is not set in stone. Look for ways to add/subtract/modify the qualifying questions that make up each decision area and personalize it...
