Read some articles about new Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Here are some major points I liked well while reading.
 

Support for Windows Azure platform – The new trend “Cloud Computing”
Parallel application support – Let your application a powerful one. (Framework 4.0 have P-Linq etc.)
New WPF based IDE – some good features are:

Inline call hierarchy
Highlight References etc.

Improved [...]

This sample code snippet gives you a kick start (Hello World ;)) on Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library – Data Access Application Block.
Remember that there a more than one way to do most steps. I am not going to confuse you by writing all.
 

First you need to download and install Enterprise Library. I used [...]

A quick answer will be “to make development environments more productive, consistent and standardized”. As an addendum, it accelerates project cycle times, reduce costs.
It is important that companies must update their applications for compatibility with rapid evaluation of  technologies such as mobile devices, software as a service etc. Customers must be happy even after [...]

Check this link from Microsoft Patterns & Practices - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998208.aspx
 
You must read the TFS Guide -http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide if you try to be a .NET Architect. (ebook available for download)

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Maximum number of users:
So far, testing in this area has yet to reveal any new recommended limits to the number of members in a group or any other linked multivalued attribute. Production environments have been reported to exceed 4 million members, and Microsoft scalability testing reached 500 million members.

 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756101(WS.10).aspx
Above link explains these useful details:

Maximum Number [...]

Anna Liu Anna Liu is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in Sydney, Australia
Beat Schwegler Beat Schwegler is an Architect working for Microsoft EMEA and focuses mainly on Web Services, Interoperability and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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Found this useful and interesting article on IBM website written by Peter Eles. I hope it will be good share.
URL: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/mar06/eeles/
in movie-making terms, the software project manager is the producer, since they make sure that things get done, then the software architect is the director, who makes sure that things are done correctly and, ultimately, [...]

Agile Software Development is said to be today’s methodology. The modern definition was started around 1990.  It is pretty an old term now but would like to say something about it since it is now a big trend in Software Industry. I hope this will be good for beginners at least.
Agile Software Development is a [...]

Check below link to read how bigger applications like Amason, eBay, Flickr, Google etc. lives with high traffic.
http://highscalability.com/links/weblink/24
Interesting website for architects.
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The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is the industry-leading software security assurance process. A Microsoft-wide initiative and a mandatory policy since 2004, SDL has played a critical role in embedding security and privacy into Microsoft software and culture. Combining a holistic and practical approach, SDL introduces security and privacy early and throughout the development process. [...]