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• jczarni Problem with Configuration of BizTalk

  Hi, I have installed biztalk server 2004 on windows XP Pro, SQL Server 2000 is installed on local computer. When i am configuring biztalk server on my local machine(through configframework), it gives me following error: An unexpected error occured while configuring the Single-On Server (The indicated service is not installed service ). In log file the following is then locat ...Show All

• m1ch3ll3 External Authorization manager

  Hi All, I was just wondering what will be a good approch to Externalize Authorization from application code. Is it possible to do a application context sensitive rule based authorization via an external Authorization manager. XACML maybe If we narrow down the domain to just web services, can WS-Policy be used to create and enforce general purpose authorization policy Is there already something out there Regards, Rana ...Show All

• Andre Scaravelli Database Design based on Service Oriented Architecture.

  iam working on a project in which i have a Requirement that , we have some basic attributes of every service such as. Service No , Description , Name , Service Type , in a service Table but we have some service that has more attributes + the simple attributes such as take a example of a service of it department we are creating on a system , such as New User id service , now in this case we have some advance attributes othen then simple , ...Show All

• ahbenshaut Interfaces with get/set

  Hello, I was wondering if is it a bad design issue to put get/set attributes into an interface, does anyone knows something about it something like: public interface IInterface { string Attribute1 { get; set; } int Attribute2 { get; } bool Attribute3 { set; } } and so on... thanks a lot! Some would argue that you should avoid using properties all together. They introduce ambiguity as to what the property actually does and what it a ...Show All

• Karen Liu MSFT 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

• Leandro Tubia Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• kaisatsu How can I add a DataSet to a Custom Entity Classes?

  Hi, How can I add a multi result set DataSet to a Custom Entity Classes Thanks, Sorry, I am trying to eliminate DS in my custom class, I want to fill a generic list with a multi result set DS. How about putting a new property of type DataSet in you class ...Show All

• Serene Seraph When to factories and interfaces in a component

  Hello everyone. When developing a component should I always handle creation of objects with a factory Should the objects that my component contains always be fronted with an interface For example a component to manage a user account database being consumed in-proc by an ASP.NET web app. Which do you think a better design in most cases for the UserMgr component : 1.) using UserMgr; public void Page_Load { IUsers users = ...Show All

• gddscy Drive mapping issue

  I have installed Windows XP professional and in My Harddisk i have three partitions ,namely c:.d:,E:,apart from this i map network folder to drive to f:,but when i do that and then i insert my usb Mass storage ,it get displayed in the device manager but i dont see it in the "MY Computers". whereas if i dont map anything to drive f: and then if i insert my usb mass storage ,then it shows up as drive f:. is this a microsoft bug or im mis ...Show All

• e022 Drive mapping issue

  I have installed Windows XP professional and in My Harddisk i have three partitions ,namely c:.d:,E:,apart from this i map network folder to drive to f:,but when i do that and then i insert my usb Mass storage ,it get displayed in the device manager but i dont see it in the "MY Computers". whereas if i dont map anything to drive f: and then if i insert my usb mass storage ,then it shows up as drive f:. is this a microsoft bug or im mis ...Show All

• SrikanthR 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

• geoffHome What about making domain specific "Enterprise Library" ?

  Presently "Enterprise Library" is related to Application Development Process. Desinging "Enterprise Library" for the best practices is good. But what about making enterprise library... related to Solution Specific, I mean to say domain specific... For eg. - Financial, Manufacturing, ...etc. Developing a shelve architecture for a vertical market is a much greater effort compared with createing a set of basic a ...Show All

• Kimani Exception Management in N-Tier architecture

  Hi, The following are the layers in our application: 1. Entities/Collections 2. Data Access 3. Business Logic 4. Service Facade layer 5. UI The way we implement our exception handling in each layer is : 1. Catch exception 2. Wrap the exception using a Custom Application Excpetion class, that also indicates the type of exception, say the exception is due to Data/Service or a Generic one. 3. Log the exception 4. Re-throw the exception ...Show All

• Stayron the best XML Based Graphs Format?

  hi I have a situation, so I'm looking for some help I need to manage graphs in a Microsoft Visual C# 2005 application. this implies that I need to transfer the graphs, I'm going to use an XML based format, but I don't know which one to use. I don't have enough criteria to decide which one is better. I briefly looked at two existing XMLs for describing graphs: http://www.gupro.de/GXL/Introduction/intro.html http://ftp.cwi.nl/CWIreports/I ...Show All

• Muty Have you tried NHibernate?

  I was just wondering... how many of you have tried using an Object Relational Mapper... perhaps something like NHibernate instead of the DataSet: NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. ...Show All