Multi-Tier Application in .NET

Question

Hello,

I am still learning .NET framework and I want to implement multi-tier application just for practice. I was wondering what is the best way to achieve that.

My goal is to make application for hospitals.

What is my question?

Is it good idea to implement multithreaded server that accepts client requests via sockets. Worker threads that deal with client requests and than route requests to data access layer.

This would be decent practice for Thread managment, but is this right way for my application?

Is there any other solution to achieve this goal?

Maybe to implement multithreaded server in java, and client in .net?

Vlada

Answer 1

I think that your best option would be to write a WCF service application.

That is hosted in IIS, which does all of the connection and threading things for you, well mostly - you still have to write thread safe code.

Answer 2

Hi svlada,

Microsoft provides quite a bit of guidance for application architecture using the .NET platform.

I can recommend the Microsoft Architecture resources available here: MSDN Architecture

Also, the 2nd edition of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide is available here as a PDF: MS AAG 2nd Edition