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• Daniel Stefanescu Windows Installer

  Probabily this is wrong section, but i don't know how post it. I'm making a project installer project with windows installer 3.1. I'd like, at the end of installation, that the installer execute my application. Some one know how How exactly are you creating your installer With WiX Sadly I do not know much about creating installers other than what InstallShield Express provides (WiX is on the list to learn, it just hasn’t ...Show All

• AdmSteck "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

• hoshine Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All

• Kendell Database Bytes per LOC

  In a project estimation program, an input for the database bytes per LOC was required. I searched the web for this term and I couldn't find an explanation for it. can any one help me thanks You'd find that in sites that talk about COCOMO (and its derivatives) That is how many bytes do you have per Lines Of Code (LOC) - divide the estimated database size by the estimated lines of code (sometimes you'd find that as SLOC source LO ...Show All

• johncmiller Designing Databases for SOA

  My question relates to best practices in database design for SOA. Specifically I am looking for a guideline that will help me maximize performance and guarantee uniqueness in and SOA environment. Is it generally advisable to use surrogate keys in your tables if you are designing the data store for an entity service If so, what datatype should you use, integer, GUID I would expect that if I use surrogate keys, that they will then be used b ...Show All

• Jeromelab a Common Form that hosts data/connections for other forms

  Hello, We are former Delphi developpers and are having a 'problem' to setup a kind of a datamodule. This could be an insible form that has a connection to a accouting system over dcom. Now we would like to call the procedures on that form from several other forms. We don't want to create a connection on each form (app is mdi). How could we do this, and mostly, how would we reference that 'common' form. Kids Regards ...Show All

• mabster Restrictive Development- Propagating Architectural Patterns

  How does the architect get their architecture propagated throughout analysis, design, and the construction phase   I have only found one way to successfully do this.   It is what I refer to as Restrictive Development. Here is an overview of Restrictive Development .   I would like your feedback on this.  Do you use another technique That is cool. I would be doing the exact same ...Show All

• cosmicX Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All

• Craig7440 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

• Udi Dahan The Software Simplist Entities

  I'm starting the following project: A multi database (SQL Server, Oracle and Firebird) using Winforms in the presentation layer and Web Services in the middle tier. My principal question is about the best way to implement the entities transit between the layers. I'm thinking in this option: a typed dataset based entities without the default adapters created by the VS 2005. Instead I will use a Helper class to factoring the multi database feat ...Show All

• rjr 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

• flwid good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application

  Hello, can anybody recommand a good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application I moved from VB6 to C#. Need a intrduction book for clear writing, not high level with samples. Some samples on N-tier design is better. Thanks. the patterns and practices books are a good start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ I checked the books, looks a liilt bit older(2003). Could you give me some new one with speci ...Show All

• oktek2002 Access to Stdregprov

  I am running into what I believe is a security problem trying to access the registry via WMI using stdregprov. I am trying to access the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International key, specifically the value sDecimal. The following is the javascript snippet I am using: var ls_regKey = "Control Panel\\International"; var HKCU = 0x80000001; refRegistry = GetObject("winMgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!root\\fit1cd66 ...Show All

• cghost sql server service pack problem

  Hi, I am configuring the biztalk server on my machine running with windows 2000 professinal and having sql server client installed. After configuring al he databases, when biztalk configuration application starts creating the databases, it gives me error " sql server 2000 service pack or higher is needed". Please note that my machine is running sql server 200 client and connecting to remote sql server 2000. After this i installed the r ...Show All

• Antonio Galvan Does XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute break the 3rd tenet of SOA ?

  The 3rd tenet of SOA, according to MS, states that "Services Share Schema and Contract". When I use the XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute in my shema, I actually say "when you call me, you will get in response one of the following possible types and you should check yourself the returned value to decide what you got from me". In the SO point of view, does this decleration of "possible" types makes my contract less ...Show All