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• WillySnowMan A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. I agree with Arnon. The is also excellent for Software Architecture: Software Systems Architecture This is cool, I saw it's coming in June.& ...Show All

• Alireza_Izadimehr General best practices for .NET development

  Hello, I'm an ex Java developer now working for a young and fairly naive company that is largely .NET oriented. I, and really the company as a whole, feel very much "thrown into the thick of things" and I'm positive there are better methods and techniques to accomplish my goals. I just find myself often with general questions about .NET and writing .NET applications. Ideal versioning techniques, sharing libraries we have written ...Show All

• Malcolm Walker Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks TadAnderson wrote: A good architect remains a good developer, but a good developer doesn't make a good architect. Just like a software engineer is a good software craftsman (a.k.a. software developer), but a good software craftsman doesn't make a good software engineer. There are a ton of debates on ...Show All

• Sean McLeod Clearing SHGetFileInfo cache

  Hi. I hope this is the right place to ask...I use VB 2005 Express and I've been fiddling a bit with the SHGetFileInfo API to retrieve icons with overlays and fileattributes. I have a problem though. Say I get the icon of a folder e.g. D:\Data. Then I share this folder and the explorer updates the display with the little hand overlay. My app has to restart to reflect the change. Every call to SHGetFileInfo returns the same icon and attributes. ...Show All

• KC-Jenner workflow engine and rule engine performance

  Please give me your criticakl comments on performance degradation issues arising out of usage ofworkflow and rule engine vis a vis increase in scalability and agility Hi Though tools like Biztalk combine both there is a difference between Rule Engines and Workflows BPEL is a specification for Worflow language There are several specifications for Rule langauges such as RuleML and SWRL but not all rule eng ...Show All

• Mark Harthan Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks Yes, you require an architecture. Ebay and Amazon are here today after repeated extensions to their architecture for innvoation and scalability. A good architect remains a good developer, but a good developer doesn't make a good architect. Just like a software engineer is a good sof ...Show All

• A L MA 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

• Eve Jane Dependency between Business and DAL - Problems with unit testing

  We just started to reorganize our code and are separating the DAL from the Business. We have also started playing with unit testing, but we've come up with a few problems. 1) Unit testing the DAL. Yes, we've noticed that this is not a trivial task, and are looking at using the com+ / service enterprise approch. The quuestion is: Are there any help for adding rollback option built into the Team Systems 2) Unit testing the Business. Quite a ...Show All

• Sebastian Mares Is OR mapping necessary for rule engine

  I have one confusion regarding rule engines . Whether rule engines can be based on OR mapping tool only.I tried mosaico author to create a rule but it is asking for business objects residing in database. please let me know If a rule engine directly interact with database and stored procedures.Also please name the tool. regards bhaskar Bhaskar, There is no direct relation between rule engines and O/ ...Show All

• Steve-o- Lazy linking pattern

  Lazy loading is a familiar pattern for hydrating business objects but has the drawback of being expensive when many objects need to retrieved (through many SQL queries). In a situation where there are perhaps 20 classes of object each with only 5 to 100 instances of each class, it may make sense to load each of the instances of each of the classes in one go. However linking these classes might be best done as required (hence 'lazy l ...Show All

• pbala Any books to recommend?

  The books that work well with .Net 2.0 for enterprise patterns The P&P books have been very useful. Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735618399/002-5016062-4469632 Also there is a nice collection of tips in this one. Effective Enterprise Java http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321130006/002-5016062-4469632 There is an ex ...Show All

• JPP FAT16 file creation problem

  Hi all, I am trying to crate a file in USB memory stick which is having FAT16 file system. I am facing problems in creating file, when I increase the file name length. If file name length is 24 bytes file creation is successful. If I cross this i.e25 ..26 bytes file creation fails. Please let me know where am i going wrong. what are the limitations of FAT16 regarding file name. Thanking you, Sachin. ...Show All

• Radu Motisan 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 Are you asking what's architecture, or how to make good architectures If you are asking what's Architecture, then it can be said as a high level and a long lasting blue print of a system. This defenetly includes thought process because an architect needs to always have the 'big picture' ...Show All

• karls123 Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All

• M_Lahlouh 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