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• CaseyL WCF and WinFS

  Thank you for the help. I’d like use winFS as database, creating new custom schemas, then I’d like do services in WCF to save my objects in database (winFS). Have somebody any idea of the architecture of my application with wcf and winfs if I create a custom schema "student" inherance of System.Storage.Item, winfs create form the schema a mapping class with my define attributes an the atributtes of System.Storage.It ...Show All

• semilogic how to install several programs in farm

  I am beginning in a project which is a total disaster. The company has done a lot of things that I don't like so much, but I am an analyst-programmer, so I have not voice for changing anything. One issue is that all the modules of the different programs are in all the machines of the farm (>100 servers). So the load is balanced between all of them. I think that this works but isn't a good policy: 1) Perhaps if a program fails It c ...Show All

• Wellnow Architecting a System is a Thought Process or Practice or Combination of both of these or others too

  Architecture is a work combining - "Thought Process" or "Practice" or "Pattern". What quality does it require I believe Architecture is something which is a super set of many things which of course includes Practices, Patterns, and what not... A blurry boundry in the universe of IT which is consistantly redifining its parameters. The Quality required by architecture are many fold. Which goes right fr ...Show All

• Glj12 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

• Broomy 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

• SheRa .NET 2.0 Tools Evaluation (Part II- Update) - DSL, GAT, SQL 2005, Mobile 5, VSTS, Enterprise Library, Reporting Services, etc.

  Here is an update on our progress with the Microsoft products and toolkits that we are considering for use on my current project. The first post is here . It may help if you are considering using the same products and toolkits. Here is the list of products and toolkits we are evaluating: Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Tools Software Factories Guidance Automation Toolkit Composite UI Application Block Enterprise Library .NET 2.0 rele ...Show All

• edmund83 HELPPPPP!

  Any help in resloving this design would be very much appreciated. Basically, A Server can have many apps or databases likewise an Application can be on one or more serveres. Server can be managed by one or more staff and applications and database can be managed by one or more staff and one staff can deal with one or more applications, databases, queries or end users.etc user like wise may be using one or more applications or databases or staf ...Show All

• sooraj Architecture question - how to store local copies of data on a server

  My work order application needs to do the following: 1) User has a windows forms client on their laptop, PC, or even mobile client. 2) When they have an active connection, they can connect to a web service to view new tasks, mark the ones they want to download to their local machine, then disconnect. 3) They can then edit their local copies of these tasks, then re-synch with the server when they next have a connection. Reason being, ...Show All

• GoatHunter 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

• sunit 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 You can check this out for more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/ServiceStation/ HTHs... Pawel, Are you s ...Show All

• Rajen Suchede Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• erudite_22 Why use an application server?

  My boss wants me to explain to him the advantages of having an application server in our web app. Currently our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application --SY As you point out, Anjana, there are multiple hosts available. But Microsoft's mainstream application server is Windows Server itself. http://www.micr ...Show All

• GazCorb 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 Yeap.. Thats what I am refering to as well... To be precise, you should adopt a contract first development method. So what you do i ...Show All

• The grace How to properly manage requirements?

  Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a hard time managing the requirements for the application I'm currently working on. I'm currently using a product called Enterprise Architect from Sparx (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/) to manage the requirements and do the general design. What I did so far was to collect and filter all requirements and categorize them. For example, there are requirements pertaining to the message list , task manager , connection m ...Show All

• aylmerj MS caching Block

  Hi, I need to know whether MS caching block for .net applications runs in the appdomain of application or is its appdomain different from application appdomain. Does it survives the application restart. If yes, then how Also need to know how it is different from Asp.net caching block. Is it same as using Application object(like application.add()). I am of the view that Asp.net caching uses System.Web. HttpRuntime .Cach ...Show All