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• shanhuangus Design consulting

  Hi all, I would like to get a consulting in the following design senario , how to do it in the right way. I'm trying to develope a reusable component of communication between the PC and field devices. The devices have special communication protocol and a special way to make the physical comm. The are many devices kinds (Display , microcontrollers,...). I'm looking for the right way to write a global component. I'll use this component ...Show All

• CommonCents 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

• shark92651 Best place to store across Layers

  Hi, In a layered ASP.NET application, with Entity/Collection, DAL, BLL, Service Facade, UI, I would like to know what is the best place to store information. This information could be either a primitive type such as a string, or a complex type such as Collection. We use Oracle 10g as DB and two servers for Load balancing. I'm unable to come to conclusion on giving a generic solution on when to use what, among the four options below: 1. Ses ...Show All

• Paul Greenfield Architecture Frameworks

    How important are the architecture frameworks like "Zachman, IAF, the DYA framework and Tapscott" for software architects to study And what priority must you give them Greetings Clemens (you missed TOGAF) Frameworks provide a broad (and sometimes deep) structure that guide the process of trawling for requirements and then elaborating and documenting the architecture that implements them. They also provide a stan ...Show All

• Ted Hoffman XMI to Model

  Hi, If we have an XMI file generated by a tool (used ArgoUML), is there a way to construct the model back from the XMI file (i.e. visually). Is there any tool or plugin which does that Thank you. Hi, Thanks. I will have a look at it. I used Poseidon. It was O.K. But it takes up a lot of resources and system becomes slow. It would be great if you coul ...Show All

• DanielKQ 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 3rd Party development Interoperability == keep contract first development in mind... Yeap.. Thats what I am refering to as ...Show All

• brsrkr Any books to recommend?

  The books that work well with .Net 2.0 for enterprise patterns I have read the first one ( Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0 ) and found it very eclectic.  It was not really about patterns and practices, rather about the authors' experience in different fields. I agree I tend to stay away from the multi-author Franken-books. There is some good stuff in that book if you a ...Show All

• Ed Glas - MSFT Orchestration Designer (Diagram)

  while doing a business process diagram in Orchestration Designer, the "JOIN" shape doesnt allow inputs from different "DECIDE" shapes. If my logic requires connecting two Else outputs (from two different Decide blocks) how do I connect them without making them go through a Join shape (since Join wont allow it) Please refer this question to the Biztalk forum, since it's specific to that ...Show All

• hiren 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 Steve Kelly has added some relevant thoughts to my ori ...Show All

• vidula "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

• joseadolfo OO design question.

  I'm trying to figure out a good way of looking this.. I have a "Product" class ( which is the fullblown class having all the child info and such )  and I have a subset class we'll call  "ProductSummary" ( where it is used as an instance of OrderItems - when people are ordering products ) which doesn't have any child info - at least for now.  I also want a very lightweight instance, we'll call "ProductInfo" ( and make it a struct ) ...Show All

• James Sun 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

• Mitch Kupferman 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 I gave up trying to weed through Microsoft's patterns ...Show All

• FSX Designing web apps in the enterprise

  Hi all, In my organization we have multiple web apps, each of them serving a different part of the organization. Because the vision is that all apps will be using the same infrastructure and might share information (pages and services), the original design of the web site was to declare a single web site (single virtual directory), and each of the apps will just be a folder in the site (meaning all apps will use the same iis application). ...Show All

• Big--Ben Management of data files

  Hi ! I'm trying to understant what is the best solution to manage data files in my enterprise. I would like to attach metadata to the information, so that it can be searched and i would like to support video and audio documents. What is the best product for my case Tnks Tnks a lot for your answer i will look at that products... There are plenty ECM (Enterprise Content Manag ...Show All