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• Jwborc39963 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

• Rajib One Server AD, Exchange & MS-SQL

  Hi All, Is it possible to run AD, File Sharing, Exchange and MS-SQL all on one Xeon server with 2GB RAM Beside the obvious that all the eggs are in one basket. This is for a small environment with only 30 users. My concern is that there are some conflict running all those application on one server. TIA Hi, Microsoft have a product named Small Business Server 2003 which you can find the feat ...Show All

• RicardoJB Deleting Hotmail Contacts

  In my hotmail account it won't let me delete ANY of my contacts. I select one, press Delete, and it comes up with the message: Are you sure you want to delete the selected items(s) . I click (OK) and it refreshes, with the contact still there, undeleted, no matter what I do. Can anyone help me please You are a star- thanks a lot! I can confirm this works. You're a lot quicker off the mark than MSN support..... ...Show All

• Bob Schaefer Architecting BLL, DAL and DB for bulk entity updates

  Hi all, My situation is as follows: I have a service that receives a list of some entity in order to do some kind of operation on each of the entities in the list: 1. The operation is the same for each of the entities (updates one of the fields) 2. There is a logical test to perform on each entity in order to know if the operation can be made or not 3. The response of the service is the original list of entities, where for each of ...Show All

• H.Ashok windows workflow foundation

  Hi, I am new to WF.I am not yet sure what type of applications can be easily designed using WF(windows workflow foundation), though people say that it can be applications like call center application, loan s/w etc. Every control provided in workflow toolbox(VS.net 2005) like "invokewebservice","delay","code",parallel","ifelse" works in same way as we wrote code for these in earlier versions.What ...Show All

• GETE Database Design based on Service Oriented Architecture.

  iam working on a project in which i have a Requirement that , we have some basic attributes of every service such as. Service No , Description , Name , Service Type , in a service Table but we have some service that has more attributes + the simple attributes such as take a example of a service of it department we are creating on a system , such as New User id service , now in this case we have some advance attributes othen then simple , ...Show All

• adamscabana Reverse Engineer SQL 2005 with Visio 2003 Error

  Hey everyone, I have an ODBC connection to my SQL 2005 database using the Native 2005 driver. When I try to reverse engineer in Visio, I get the following error: The currently selected Visio driver is not compatible with the data source. I've tried changing the default driver and datasource for the project. I've also searched for updates on MSDN and the Office websites. I'm using SP2 for Visio Professional 2003. Any suggestions ...Show All

• RameshKoniki Best place to store across Layers

  Hi, In a layered ASP.NET application, with Entity/Collection, DAL, BLL, Service Facade, UI, I would like to know what is the best place to store information. This information could be either a primitive type such as a string, or a complex type such as Collection. We use Oracle 10g as DB and two servers for Load balancing. I'm unable to come to conclusion on giving a generic solution on when to use what, among the four options below: 1. Ses ...Show All

• Dhiraj Thakur What about making domain specific "Enterprise Library" ?

  Presently "Enterprise Library" is related to Application Development Process. Desinging "Enterprise Library" for the best practices is good. But what about making enterprise library... related to Solution Specific, I mean to say domain specific... For eg. - Financial, Manufacturing, ...etc. Hi Rohan, I agree with you that we  have  grown to looking at architectures solutions w/o language factor. H ...Show All

• Radu C-tin SOA and .NET 2.0

  I am planning to do a technology update to my folks on the benefits of SOA, business with .Net 2.0 platform... I was wondering if you guys had done something like this before Appreciate your time... Thanks, Cheers! I agree ... WCF (Indigo) is the place to start Creaturita, I'd suggest you begin your research with WCF and BizTalk. I haven't done any, ...Show All

• Fabio Mattiussi Management of data files

  Hi ! I'm trying to understant what is the best solution to manage data files in my enterprise. I would like to attach metadata to the information, so that it can be searched and i would like to support video and audio documents. What is the best product for my case Tnks Tnks a lot for your answer i will look at that products... There are plenty ECM (Enterprise Content Manag ...Show All

• GreyWolf001au General best practices for .NET development

  Hello, I'm an ex Java developer now working for a young and fairly naive company that is largely .NET oriented. I, and really the company as a whole, feel very much "thrown into the thick of things" and I'm positive there are better methods and techniques to accomplish my goals. I just find myself often with general questions about .NET and writing .NET applications. Ideal versioning techniques, sharing libraries we have written ...Show All

• WayneSpangler Software architecture... I'm stuck!

  Hi all! I'm currently stuck in the design process of my next app. This is nothing new as I've been trying to get past this particular hurdle (over several projects) for the last 3-4 years without much success. Everything goes well until the end of the requirement gathering phase. I have a list of detailed , categorized requirements and I think the next logical step would be to work on the architecture of the project at a highest possible level o ...Show All

• rwin designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

  Hello, I am at a stage where I want to develop and application that will work the same whether if you are online or offline. I can always write an application that hooks up to a server while online (connected to a network) and queries a db for the interactions bewteen the user and the app. Then when offline have another app that looks at the local database... but i don't want to write two apps... I want to build an app like outlook ...Show All

• Laurentiu Nicolae Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All