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• Lakshmi.A.V Architecture templates

  I am in a small shop where we don't have UML tools or other design aids other than Visio. What I am looking for if there is any are templates or guides, standards for how a system architecture should be documented. That standard would also include how architecture should be documented graphically as well. There are a lot of frameworks that offers views for documenting architectures (RUP 4+1, Siemens 4 views, RM-ODP 5 views, Zachman 36 vie ...Show All

• mamo MSMQ vs Event/Delegate model as foundation for flexible application architechture?

  While architecting a framework for an application that is being developed, for which we plan to use 'messaging' as the primary data/information exchange mechanism, use we came across this dilemma: To use MSMQ or Event/Delegate model of .NET To elaborate a little further, the system would consist of User Data Management, Video Capture, Printing, UI, Remote UI and Remote Control interfaces etc. ALL interactions between these modules wo ...Show All

• leok Exception Management in N-Tier architecture

  Hi, The following are the layers in our application: 1. Entities/Collections 2. Data Access 3. Business Logic 4. Service Facade layer 5. UI The way we implement our exception handling in each layer is : 1. Catch exception 2. Wrap the exception using a Custom Application Excpetion class, that also indicates the type of exception, say the exception is due to Data/Service or a Generic one. 3. Log the exception 4. Re-throw the exception ...Show All

• Tim Thornton N-tier layer separations and connection/interaction

  I happen to be experimenting based on some examples I've found on the net but I want to be directed to the right path, those samples tend to be incomplete or misleading. In a typical N-tier scenario, which should reference which And is the use of Data Transfer Object in accordance to any best practice that maybe existing Accordingly, how does those layers supposed to connect/interact with one another eg. what does BLL passes to the DAL and w ...Show All

• Scott Coolness VS 2005 and multiple projects.

  I was told by someone that Visual Studio 2005 has moved away from multiple projects in a solution. I don't believe this for a second, but I wanted to see if 1) it really was true and 2) if there is any info I could draw from to counter that argument. Also, do many of you consider the information in this article: ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/designnetapp.asp ) a bit outdated And b ...Show All

• DNF biztalk as a workflow

  I have started doing research on Biztalk 2006 for its BPM/workflow use. I need to know the answers to the following at the earliest.It is not possible without help from all of you.please contribute with your answers to as many questions as possible.You have to say only yes or no in most cases 1.Is it able to use .net classes created using VS.net as activities inside workflow. 2. Can we invoke workflow created in it being called from .n ...Show All

• VladK57579 How framework speaks with OS

  Hello , is there some one who can give me some information ,about a book or a URL on how .net framework speaks with Windows make it clear (its not how application work with framework , or some thing like how clr works) how the entire .net framework speaks with Windows , what it uses (does it use api's or some thing new if api's please please specify the url where i can get the information about the same) ...Show All

• Silicon Has anyone received this type of error?

  When trying to connect to an alias, via UNC, for a host name registered in the DNS database, it works fine if the actual host name or IP address is used. If the alias name is used the following error is received. \\server alias\share "You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again. Any assistance, insight or experiences would be apprecia ...Show All

• Marc Allard Databinding vs Multi-tier

  I'm a bit confused - see if you can help me out. It seems like microsoft is really big on the multi-tiered approach to development(presentation, business, data), but now, with visual studio 2005, they're also really pushing the new and improved typed dataset for databinding. Am I wrong, or is it virtually impossible to take full advantage of the new typed dataset and still separate your system into presentation and data layers You create a data ...Show All

• Taurineman Does XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute break the 3rd tenet of SOA ?

  The 3rd tenet of SOA, according to MS, states that "Services Share Schema and Contract". When I use the XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute in my shema, I actually say "when you call me, you will get in response one of the following possible types and you should check yourself the returned value to decide what you got from me". In the SO point of view, does this decleration of "possible" types makes my contract less ...Show All

• Anna Elise Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table

  Quality attribute requirements drive the design of architecture and the resulting views of the architecture.    A Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table results from several iterations of putting together different abstraction levels and then views of an architecture.   I had an old factor table that came from an old project that in the end the client decided would be to costly to move forward with.   I thought I ...Show All

• Prakash Srinivasan Windows Zip

  Hi Is it possible to use the windows zip function on the command line I want to incorporate this into my program. I know there is an add on for win zip but was wondering if its possible to do with the windows own version... Cheers Strange question for this forum... Have a look at the cabarc sdk Hi! You mean using Compressed Folders I think it's possible if use Shell API, because Compresse ...Show All

• MING LV Have you tried NHibernate?

  I was just wondering... how many of you have tried using an Object Relational Mapper... perhaps something like NHibernate instead of the DataSet: NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. ...Show All

• maqk Software Development Processs Question

  Hey, i am doing an assingment on Software Development/Engineering Process. My question: Is evolutionary prototyping a process of the Prototypical Model or is it a model. like, the waterfall is a process of the Linear Model If its not a process, could you please tell me a few processess of the Prototypical Model and also process that use evolutionary prototyping. cheers I tend to see Evolutionary Pr ...Show All

• mgwalm Design Patterns & Best Practices

  Hi All, Is'nt good if we can start discussing some good practices for Design Patterns Implementation (Adding to P & P Best practices documentation) using .NET and other MS Technologies Thanks Sudhakar Hi, I was introduce to Design Patterns by my Java Architects friends, and I started to design .NET application with similar Architecture. Now every project that I'm into I look for the best pratices and patterns to use. In my l ...Show All