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• rvaneijk Financial Services Architect Forum

  Hello, We held a Financial Services Architect forum in Canada recently where we disscussed a number of topics related to the financial industry, you can read a detailed 3 part report on the forum at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif , I am keen to know what architects working for the financial industry in other parts of the world have on their minds and suggestions for potential topics of discussions in these topics, some of the topics we co ...Show All

• Fred Krusemark Data Modelling Tool in Visual Studio 2005

  Is there any data modelling tool / feature available in Visual Studio 2005 Hi amit lohia I have just started working with Visio for Enterprise Architect and find that the ORM (object role modeling) is an excellent way to model your data models. I have been working with design of databases for quite some time and find this to be the most precise and - once grasped - most easy way of defining your data models. ORM models can wi ...Show All

• Jason Foster Storing parent reference vs ID in business objects

  Our development team is discussing the pros and cons of storing hierarchical information in business classes. Let's use a banking system as an example. Is there any cons to storing a reference to the parent object in child objects (for example, storing a reference to the account in each transaction) Now, we don't want to make it mandatory. For example, when getting a specific transaction based on some ID value, the Account property that refer ...Show All

• JStalnaker A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. DDD is a good book - however it deals with a certain narrow aspect of architecture. I would recommend reading "Software Architecture in Practice& ...Show All

• Krishna RK Dynamic connection configuration on Serviced components

  Hi, We're architecturing a model which will be used by our company developers, when writing assemblies and serviced components. Now we have to define how our components will read data access parameters like username\password\dbServer, cause we don't want these parameters hardcoded inside components source code. As we have various environment on ours applications alike: delelopment, test, production the components must be able to work on any d ...Show All

• Tim Brassey 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

• liber When to use XP

  I was asked in one of the other threads when I thought the proper context for using XP existed. Since it didn't really relate to that thread I thought I would extract it out in to a blog. It is here . I would be interested in feedback to see if you agree or have a different twist on it. Sorry, I am not sure why it failed. I can maybe take a guess at why you would say you do not need to be a d ...Show All

• TrueTexan Windows Media Player and Word XML problems in host upgrade to Windows 2003 server

  I designed a site for a not-for-profit organization which already had and knew MS Word that would allow them to create updates in Word and upload them to the site without changing the basic site design. The host donating the server for the site updated its server to Windows 2003 and updated its firewall maybe twice. I started noticing crashes when I went to pages with Word 2000 HTML and XML images in their iFrames on my Windows 98SE computer usi ...Show All

• data_art A good second book about architecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. Hi Tad, I agree of course that no solution fits every problem... What are the characteristics of an environment where XP works in your opinion B ...Show All

• Joei 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 I haven't done any, but if i would have to do one i would study WSE 3.0. I have read somewhere that you have transactions in ws ...Show All

• SameerKamat 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

• Guy Ronen 3D Modeling tool

  I have this problem to solve, hope that you can help me: I have a building with a “control system”. The control system, depending of the temperature inside and outside the building, opens and closes windows automatically. I want to create a 3D model of the building that displays in real time the processing mode of the building (temperature inside and outside, windows that are open and closed, etc). For that I have to interconnect the ...Show All

• Shidoshi 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 I tried to play with this http://www.rondebruin.nl/windowsxpzip.htm once, but never could make it work in either JScript or VBScript besides listing the ZIP archive's con ...Show All

• bidbad 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

• hartinary Interfaces with get/set

  Hello, I was wondering if is it a bad design issue to put get/set attributes into an interface, does anyone knows something about it something like: public interface IInterface { string Attribute1 { get; set; } int Attribute2 { get; } bool Attribute3 { set; } } and so on... thanks a lot! ok! thanks a lot! :D Some would argue that you should avoid using properties all together. They introduce ambiguity as to what the property ...Show All