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• GiveMeABreakMs 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

• anand_CE Architecture options for running a long process from an ASP.NET website

  Hi, We currently have a solution where a user can upload a file, which gets processed in an ASP.NET v1.1 intranet website The solution was designed to handle 10-100 items, but customers have (ab)used the solution to process 1000-10000 items. Processing 100 items takes less then a minute, processing 1000 items takes around 7 minutes, larger uploads take (non-linear) longer. Now besides performance tuning the processing, I want to gather ...Show All

• Zeeshan Want a Guideline of Object Design and Implementation?

  For the next 20 days, for each day I will post my 20 rules of Object Design and Implementation. Check it out at: http://pc0416.com/blogs/pc0416/archive/2006/05/19/36.aspx Please comment... Thanks, Alan, ...Show All

• Allen Noakes Are interfaces for behavioral overloading only?

  This question comes from the new approaches being suggested when designing services with WCF and even ASMX 2. The approach is one that uses interfaces (or abstract classes) to focus on the method signatures and avoid diving directly into implementation when desiging services. This looks like a half-way contract first approach that is meant to help developers focus on what makes a service reusable (strong typing, message orientation, explicit met ...Show All

• leo2 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

• Oliver Samson GetDeviceCaps( HDC , PHYSICALWIDTH ) Failes in Windows 98.

  To implement print in my s/w I created a memory device context from Print Device Context and made drawings to Memory device context and finally i used BitBlt fun to copy it into print Device Context.Every thing works well in windows NT, 2000 an XP because i get GetDeviceCaps( PHYSICALWIDTH ) = 5100 for a 600 dpi printer on 8.5 * 11 inch paper but in windows 98 i get zero for memory Device context but in print Device context i still get 5100 so ...Show All

• aZed Benchmark for IIS and .Net 1.1 +

  Hi, I'm trying to find some data that shows different benchmarks on the capacity and scalability of IIS on different versions of .NET and Operating Systems (Win2k, Win2k3, Win2k3 Server). Any idea where I can find this type of data In particular I'm interested in hardware requirements, number of concurrent users/requests that it can handle based on the system configuration, differences between .NET versions and the different Operating S ...Show All

• AFLood Lazy linking pattern

  Lazy loading is a familiar pattern for hydrating business objects but has the drawback of being expensive when many objects need to retrieved (through many SQL queries). In a situation where there are perhaps 20 classes of object each with only 5 to 100 instances of each class, it may make sense to load each of the instances of each of the classes in one go. However linking these classes might be best done as required (hence 'lazy l ...Show All

• gamehack O/R mapper requirements for domain layer

  I have heard a lot of talk about disadvantages of various ORM solutions.  Mainly that some use attributes and reflection, making your domain layer peppered with hints about how objects are serialized and complaints (probably false) that reflection is slow.  Also, some frameworks don't support caching of domain objects.  Some require you to derive all your domain classes from a base class provided by the mapper.  Others can't ...Show All

• Greg Brown Any books to recommend?

  The books that work well with .Net 2.0 for enterprise patterns I did not find that one particularly good. Here are some of my thoughts: http://www.livejournal.com/users/andreiko/2826.html#cutid1   On every project I put a process repository in place that includes a resource of links and books to help educate the team on parts of the process they may need to learn. Here ...Show All

• mAuo 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

• mah_ Any books to recommend?

  The books that work well with .Net 2.0 for enterprise patterns On every project I put a process repository in place that includes a resource of links and books to help educate the team on parts of the process they may need to learn. Here is the lastest set of books I compiled: http://www.corporatewebbing.com/rwsa/Architecture.htm Here is the latest set of links I compiled http://www. ...Show All

• Kaltenberg Spcification of web services you need from third-party company

  I want third-party company to implement bunch of web services. I wonder what it is the best way to specify them. I can create wsdl for them, is it ok Interoperability is very important because services will run on non-windows machine and clients will run on windows boxes. thanks in advance for any info Pawel, Regardless of whether you are dealing with an external or internal consumer WSDL should be your primary mechanism for exposing ...Show All

• Vasco Veiga design Reflection.Emit question.

  I have an interesting problem. I am developping an ASP.net application, but the question is more related to architecture. The thing is, I need to present summary information per year. It's not the exact case, but imagine that I need to present total sales by product and year, with one column for the product name and one for each year. So something like Product 1998 1999 2000 prod. A 1,000 1,500 1,800 My problem is, I don't know how many yea ...Show All

• Grant Haugen 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