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• JM-Taz Doing what Microsoft does, not what they say to do… DNA, SOA, Software Architecture, VB.NET, CMMI, Agile Development

  Trying to weed through all the marketing driven releases from MS is not an easy task, but in the end it is something that always needs to be done. In this blog I discuss DNA, SOA, Software Architecture, VB.NET, CMMI, Agile Development - Doing what Microsoft does, not what they say to do… I would like to know if you are going through the same problems As far as I know MSF originated from MCS rather than ...Show All

• Tydr Design Patterns

  What is the usage of common GoF design patterns in daily coding I ask this because as a developer I'm constantly trying to improve both my code and my overall design, to create software that's easy to maintain and easy to extend--- hopefully easy to change without effecting the 'client' aspect through the use of interfaces etc--- Is there a more straight forward application of certain design patterns For example, does anyone sit down and actu ...Show All

• Vinoo Cherian UML/XMI Compatibilities : Highly Important

  Hello there, I am in a high pressure project where I have to synthesize the differences and compatibilites of different UML versions and different XMI versions and what is included in what. I have to therefore formulize to tables 1 for UML versions and its features & the other one for XMI versions and its features. and the third table for UML and XMI. Its been very difficult to do it. DO you have some idea on where i can find ...Show All

• Natalia Glagoleva - MSFT Architectural considerations when developing a .Net solution with intergaration to Legacy apps

  I need to develop a web based application wherein the data would be retrieved from Mainframes and other legacy apps. I know that there would be a limit in connections that I can open to connect to this legacy systems. Even though my web application on the top would be able to take that load but internally when request get queued up at the legacy end things go for a toss. Trouble is I can change the interface to the legacy applicati ...Show All

• Elham Sarikhani 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

• ja7mad 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

• Yoshi NorwaY "Unique ID" server for multi-server app

  I'm building an ASP.NET app that I hope will scale to need multiple servers. For certain objects, I'd like to provide users with an "External ID". This would be either a user entered or randomly generated string, like "Fred's Data" or "q1g52xTK". This external ID would be associated with a GUID, and would allow the user to get at the object without having to know the GUID (such as at log-in). (They will also be a ...Show All

• Alin Constantin Data Modelling Tool in Visual Studio 2005

  Is there any data modelling tool / feature available in Visual Studio 2005 Hi Amit, There are no DB modeling tools available in VS 2005 however you can connect to DB from VS and create tables etc. If you are looking for tool support like Erwin or PowerDesigner the closest thing Microsoft has is Visio for Enterprise Architects where you can use the Entity Relationship model (ER) and Object Role Modeling (ORM). Visio ...Show All

• chilloutyo 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 Yes I do agree, its an endless discussion Abu S. Md. Ismail wrote: Hi Rohan, This is not a simple question, where the answer will be in one line or few lines, but I believe the answer will be the every ones point of view !!! Therefore, it is open to discuss. I think you ...Show All

• bjornv the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. Hi .Net programming is not always limited to SQl databases. What kind of ORM tool would be suggested if the databse is something like DB2 running on a Mainframe box (assume adapters like DataDirect is already there to talk with the Db2 instance) Besides, how do tools like Codus or Persistor.net integrates with Enterprise Library from MS (Jun ...Show All

• Peter Nimmo Middle Tier Design Question

  Let's say I have two applications that needs to communicate with each other. In a nutschell, when I design an application (not always of course), I have my business component (Facade Layer), data access component, and my domain objects (DTO's), which makes up three seperate assemblies. Now, let's say I am building the Sales & Marketing application that needs to communicate with the Accounting components. I am not sure if the Sales ap ...Show All

• Ioan Bizau Guidance Needed on User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) - Starting a Open Navigation Task

  Does anyone know of a good existing walkthrough-style tutorial on the UIPAB I've read through the whole reference to the UIP Application Block a couple of times but I'm confused by something stated in the UIPAB reference: Under the heading " Starting and Resuming Tasks " the reference tell you that to start a task you must call: UIPManager.StartO ...Show All

• webmonsta Who is the appserver in .NET?...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server?

  Some days ago, a coworker ask me the following question: Who is the appserver in .NET ...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server ...after thinking for 5 seconds, I decided to anwser...well...it depends...could we all of them or neither. What do you think about Have a look here: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Application Server page  .NET environment doesn't supply an app ...Show All

• vegasrockstar Two Controllers sharing one model

  Hi, really hoping that a) I've posted this in the right forum, b) that someone can help me out. I'm implementing a MVC pattern that contains two controllers that both need to access the same instance of a model. I'm having problems trying to work out how to get the controllers to share one instance of an model. The model can't be a singleton object and each instance of the model contains it's own data, so the data cannot be static across all ...Show All

• Dan7el 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 Hello, I am not sure if you would require an application server in this scenario. It looks great already. I think you should probably look at an applica ...Show All