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• kingtaj design issues in client-server system

  Hi, I design a soft real-time system that should handle different clients’ requests and activities (such as telephone calls, processing of different types of events occurring during the calls, inserting these calls into the Data Base). Thus my server has to provide the client with suitable interfaces allowing opening new session, new call, close the call, update the call etc. and, at the same time, the server has to send events that ca ...Show All

• thePrisoner06 Architectural Implications of Microsoft Licensing

  Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, 22-23 March, Newport, UK This exclusive two-day retreat for senior enterprise, infrastructure and solutions architects, at The Celtic Manor Resort, will feature renowned industry speakers such as Ivar Jacobson, creator of the Rational Unified Process and Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, along with speakers from the event sponsors: Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and ThoughtWorks. ...Show All

• darkmsn where and in what form business layer should be implemented

  I have to design 3 project whose specification are as follows: 1. Client server architecture , windows application , office administration site with book library in place. 2. 3 layred web application , ecommmerce aplication with webservices in place for business layer implementation. 3. 3 layered we application , workflow application What of the following technologies should i follow in the above cases with performance issues and impact ...Show All

• RoelT Extensibility hooks meet Enterprise Library?

  Wow! I hope this forum starts to get a bunch of traffic from the architctecture community.  I really have been looking for something like this to post the really hard architecture questions I'm dealing with at the office. Most recently that has been surrounding the usage of the enterprise library and how we can embrace and extend it to help achieve high levels of productivity when delivering line of business applications.  The ...Show All

• ambi 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. If ...Show All

• MorB XP or XPE for POS application

  Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this - apologies if it's not. I'm developing a custom POS application in VB.Net 2.0 for no more than 4 terminals. The touch terminals all have P4 processors with 512 MB RAM and 40 GB HDDs. I'm just wondering if there are any advantages to installing XP embedded (or XPE for POS) instead of XP Professional. Because of the limited number of clients, it would be more expensive to buy t ...Show All

• Wytze Software Development Processs Question

  Hey, i am doing an assingment on Software Development/Engineering Process. My question: Is evolutionary prototyping a process of the Prototypical Model or is it a model. like, the waterfall is a process of the Linear Model If its not a process, could you please tell me a few processess of the Prototypical Model and also process that use evolutionary prototyping. cheers Evolutionary prototyping is a ...Show All

• Snorrk Windows Service event log full?

  I have a Windows Service which has been running happily for months, writing the occasional message to a private Windows event log using System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry. Just today, however, my service has stopped running, and the Application event log contains the error: Service cannot be started. System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The event log file is full. It didn't look that full to me; a few hundred events, certainly fewe ...Show All

• Aneo Have you tried NHibernate?

  I was just wondering... how many of you have tried using an Object Relational Mapper... perhaps something like NHibernate instead of the DataSet: NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. ...Show All

• Frankie Ai 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

• Jayel Future of Win32 platform

  Hello, Can anyone please explain to me what is the future of the Win32-64 API or "unmanaged platform" So, I would like to know: Is it still worth to learn or have to forget it, becous it is already a technical history Will the future's operating system support win32 native code applications Will be there only 1 platform: .NET Framework 2.0 WinFX Is really .NET Framework much better than Win32 Excuse me for my langu ...Show All

• Shaun Mulligan Performance Monitor on a Widows 2003 Server?

  Performance Monitor on a Widows 2003 Server I think there are too many unknowns to give you an answer for example - What does the software do if it is doing a lot of number crunching 75% of CPU usage might be expected. Another example - Is the target hardware suitable for the application maybe you are using a weak platform what other programs run on the server etc. Arnon I would agree with Arnon here, you need to put some ...Show All

• Sten-Gunnar How framework speaks with OS

  Hello , is there some one who can give me some information ,about a book or a URL on how .net framework speaks with Windows make it clear (its not how application work with framework , or some thing like how clr works) how the entire .net framework speaks with Windows , what it uses (does it use api's or some thing new if api's please please specify the url where i can get the information about the same) ...Show All

• Wing Lee 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

• Bill Dafon the best design for human resources managment project

  Hello, i have this human resources project i have to do... the company has 4000 - 5000 employees.. the problem is i really do not know where to start.. and the best way to design it... i am totally confused.. should i use WS, or Remoting,, the project is internal, the DB will be hosted in a server within the same building the the clients will be using LAN to connect to the server, i guess remoting is great in this scenario although i have ...Show All