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• CarlDemelo Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Seminar at Tech-Ed - Boston, MA - June 14th

  About BizTalk: Microsoft BizTalk is software that enables developers and IT professionals to integrate applications and automate business processes. Event Agenda: Members of Microsoft's BizTalk Server team will be on hand to present the latest enhancements of BizTalk Server 2006, to discuss the features being considered for the next release of BizTalk as well as to share insights regarding the evolution of BizTalk Server over the next few ye ...Show All

• Simon Ince designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

  Hello, I am at a stage where I want to develop and application that will work the same whether if you are online or offline. I can always write an application that hooks up to a server while online (connected to a network) and queries a db for the interactions bewteen the user and the app. Then when offline have another app that looks at the local database... but i don't want to write two apps... I want to build an app like outlook ...Show All

• Jeff Guenthner a good book for people in the other (dark?) side

  Well, my sister is going to organize a very very big scada project. She is physics and she don't know anything about programming, don't know anything about soa, n-tier or even how to program in java or .net. She will be the client role for another company :) Do you know any good book for that kind of people One that says: "don't change requisites everyday" :) and things like that. Just for sending it to her as a gift. Thanks ...Show All

• CarlosAcosta Network Access

  Just a question: How do you change windows 2000 or xp network access to ip address instead of the usual computer name. example: from : \\computername to: \\192.168.0.3 I know that it is possible to use both but what if I restrict the user and use ip address only. And how do I change it back A million thanks. I just solve my own problem. Incase you might face the same problem again then check t ...Show All

• John M-W 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

• HGSandhagen is skelta workflow useful in vs.net

  I am new to workflow engines.If we have to make our own windows application in .net and want to set the workflow of business inside business layer, will skelta workflow tool be useful. The evaluation copy given by skelta is a workflow process setup by skelta itself thinking of the various business scnerios. However the scenario i am facing is different from the examples given. is biztalk workflow different from skelta. any other goo ...Show All

• Doug Coburn minimum business layer in a high concurrency project?

  I don't understand what we are doing in my current project. We are making the business layer slimmer and increasing pl/sql. My project is a high concurrency one, with lot of users using it. They say that the systems worked bad with a big COM+ layer and now works better. I think the only way that this idea is correct is if the thick COM+ layer was wrong. In general, and perhaps always, making a business layer in a big project should be the ...Show All

• Rik Session Management for Distributed Remote Application in C#

  Hi In my Distributed Remoting Application i am using Command Pattern for Remoting. Now i want to add session management in the application. Whenever commad executor called it should check for the session. The design scenario is C# - SQL Server 2000 - Windows Application. Multiple Client. Single Business Logic (Middle Tier). Single DB Server.   Suggest me the best way to do session management. The com ...Show All

• John B. Adams Entity Aggregation in the BLL/DAL world

  Hi all, I've started to read the paper about entity aggregation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dngrfSOAChallenges-EntityAggregation.asp ) and I've started to wonder - In layered service programming, where you have the service interface, the business process, business components and data components, we sometimes want to do an aggregation of entities (for example - an order might contains the order ...Show All

• LookingforHelp passing lookup values out and into services

  Hi all, This time I want you opinion on the following scenario: I have a service which returns info about an entity. Some of the information is based on lookup values (lookup=code/decode, such as "male/female", "small/medium/large" etc.) My options to output these values from the service are: 1. output them as the coded integers (male=1, female=2) - this is a problem because I shouldn't expose my inner data to the ...Show All

• noPCtoday Datasets as the DAL?

  I was wondering if using datasets/adapters/datatables is a good way to manage my data access layer, or if I should keeping using this generic database library one of my friend wrote. Thanks, John All depends, datasets are like BD in memory, but construct it is quite long. You should use datareaders for readonly data. It should improve performance drastically. Perhaps you could consider nhibernate or something, just to put mo ...Show All

• Looooooka need som direction

  Hi All, I'm a overseeing a project using asp.net tech uppfront for data capture and vb.net client where the data is manually manipluated and then returned SQL Server and back to the Asp.net client. Have any of you heard of an instance where you have used IIS to cache to relieve performance problems is this a often occurrance isn't this a sign that the application as such is poorly designed Background to my question are based o ...Show All

• PaulKline Business Logic Question(s)

  Hi, I believe this is the right place to post this query. I'll give you some background first. I have an asp.net application that accesses business objects which in turn accesses a data access layer to read information from a database, pretty standard stuff!  Most of the pages are simple in that the user can either edit the data or they can't so in the business objects there is a base method that returns a bool for whether to disabl ...Show All

• gaffneyn Design pattern for interactive communications between users

  We have a need for two users to communicate interactively over a VPN connection through a DMZ. We are considering a smart client (internet side) talking to a web server (in the DMZ) talking to a smart client (within our network). Wondered if anyone knew of a design pattern (or any other solution) to this problem. Greg, I changed my design a bit..Now clients "talk" to a Communication\Buss ...Show All

• Martin Skibye 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