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• WiMan the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. Try Persistor.NET ( http://www.persistor.net ) Hans-Peter Hi .Net programming is not always limited to SQl databases. What kind of ORM tool would be suggested if the databse is something like DB2 running on a Mainframe box (assume adapters like DataDirect is already there to talk with the Db2 instance) ...Show All

• fburns Visio For EA - database diagram - bold text for Req'd columns is not working properly

  All-- Please help. I have "Visio For Enterprise Architects (11.4301.6568)". I have database diagram. The bold text for Req'd columns is not working properly. That is... For some Req'd columns, the text IS bold-- which is the visual cue that shows at-a-glance whether or not a given column is required. That is good. That is what it is supposed to do. That is what looks nice. Excellent. ...BUT... For some other ...Show All

• Renato Tinoco Advantages of OOP ?

  Hello, Im a fun of OOP designs. I design my bussiness classes when I start a new project. Then maybe I will write mapper classes for bussiness classes to map DB tables or using an O/RM tool or an ODBMS . Think that this project is big one and it has long deadline. You will develop it 2 or 3 years. Requirements will be changed. To develop this project with OOP designs and n-Tier application design is good idea. But I am asking myself ...Show All

• Koen Vd B UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

  One of the problems I have found in VSTS 2005 is the lack of modeling tools for the Software Architect. Jack Greenfield addressed and answered my concerns here . He also said MS is working on some addressing some of the issues. I responded to him here . I needed something today to allow me to continue doing my job which currently is implementing a product line engineering process. I am using UML on this project. In case you are interes ...Show All

• Aleksandar Hajdukovi? 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this article: ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/designnetapp.asp ) a bit outdated And b ...Show All

• JesterSoftware minimum business layer in a high concurrency project?

  I don't understand what we are doing in my current project. We are making the business layer slimmer and increasing pl/sql. My project is a high concurrency one, with lot of users using it. They say that the systems worked bad with a big COM+ layer and now works better. I think the only way that this idea is correct is if the thick COM+ layer was wrong. In general, and perhaps always, making a business layer in a big project should be the ...Show All

• JamesLiang MIIS export to SQL Server 2000

  I am trying to manage user information between Active Directory and SQL Server 2000, both on the same computer, using MIIS. I have successfully imported (staged and sync'd) information between Active Directory and MIIS, and between SQL Server 2000 and MIIS. I verified that all imported user information is existent in the MIIS metaverse. The issue I am having is when I try to import new users from the MIIS metaverse to my SQL Server 2000 datab ...Show All

• Matt Morehead Testing a server for Dual Core vs Single Core with/without HyperThreading

  I need to get a CPU count for licensing - i have a 4 way dual core that the OS reports as an 8 way - for licensing i care about sockets not cores - does anyone know of a way to get the socket count of a server Thanks Take a look at the two links below http://intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/recent/275339.htm http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/211924.htm prn=Y Arnon ...Show All

• athadu Microsoft Certifications- Good, Bad, or Ugly?

  I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right.  I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the blog. I want to know how off base or on base the architecture community feels my opinion is. ...Show All

• fabsecad Scenario help please

  My scenario is the next: I deploy my application to my clients with ClickOnce, but my clients can modify the code of the application (adding new attributes to the classes), and can personalize the user interface. How I can deploy a new version of my application to my clients without breaking the changes of my clients I need help. Where clients can change code... I'm very curious in what kind of ...Show All

• VB Nut Entity Aggregation in the BLL/DAL world

  Hi all, I've started to read the paper about entity aggregation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dngrfSOAChallenges-EntityAggregation.asp ) and I've started to wonder - In layered service programming, where you have the service interface, the business process, business components and data components, we sometimes want to do an aggregation of entities (for example - an order might contains the order ...Show All

• Alexey Logachyov 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. Many deep "Thank you" as all of the answers have been very helpful and with excellent linsk to great resources. Please lets st ...Show All

• Ignis Nhibernate O/R mapper with microsoft application block for data {.net 2.0}

  Has any body used Nhibernate O/R mapper with microsoft application block for data {in .net 2.0} If yes please let me know how do you use it Also let me know that am i doing the right approach or not .I have chooses it with regards to my post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=325901&SiteID=1 Have I done correctly or not     The two would generally be mutually exclusive ... it provides its ...Show All

• Esteban27421 UI Design: Edit then List vs List then Edit

  Today I was thinking about the way I build UIs (List the Edit) and the way most people I know build UIs (Edit then List) and the relation that the way you build you UI has with the way you store the data you manipulate in you UI. So I wrote an article about that in my blog: http://luxspes.blogspot.com/2006/04/ui-design-edit-then-list-vs-list-then.html And would like to hear opinions about it... and perhaps get ideas to build some kind ...Show All

• Greazy Why architecture with OO methods?

  OO methods provide a set of techniques for analyzing, decomposing, and modularizing software system architectures. In general, OO methods are characterized by structuring the system architecture on the basis of its objects (and classes of objects) rather than the actions it performs Main purpose of these design concepts is to manage software system complexity by improving software quality factors. This provides the following benefits ...Show All