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• MS Ellen the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. Actually to add another .. npersist I agree that nhibernate is probably the way to go but it does have a steep learning curve and offers alot of functionality many do not need. Wilson takes the opposite approach, it is extremely easy to learn but may lack in some advanced areas of functionality (like using aspects to automatically register d ...Show All

• M.S. Babaei Migrating Lotus Notes Application to the Microsoft

  Hi All, I am about to migrate about 70 lotus notes application to the Microsoft Platform and I am wondering what are the alternates targets architectures. Which one is the best target architecture and why. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Kikala You may want to check out Microsoft's groove ( www.groove.net ) that has some of notes features as well as few migration too ...Show All

• Kris Selden Need help on solution architecture employing BizTalk Server & MSMQ Server

  Hi, I have a potential software project for a large ad composition agency. The requirement is briefly as follows: 1. There will be front offices located in more than a dozen locations across multiple states. These front offices would be posting requirements about advertisements to multiple back office located in some other country. Each front office would have about 10 users. 2. Each ad ...Show All

• DAMSCDBA When to use XP

  I was asked in one of the other threads when I thought the proper context for using XP existed. Since it didn't really relate to that thread I thought I would extract it out in to a blog. It is here . I would be interested in feedback to see if you agree or have a different twist on it. I guess we could, but I am stating what I have seen people do when it has work, not what the recipe calls for. Ju ...Show All

• chriseboy Software architecture... I'm stuck!

  Hi all! I'm currently stuck in the design process of my next app. This is nothing new as I've been trying to get past this particular hurdle (over several projects) for the last 3-4 years without much success. Everything goes well until the end of the requirement gathering phase. I have a list of detailed , categorized requirements and I think the next logical step would be to work on the architecture of the project at a highest possible level o ...Show All

• Ramyakeerthi General business object requirements

  For those of you who have worked on medium to large sized projects, or anyone who has an opinion , I would like to know what types of logic an application needs in the business layer. If the objects expose properties and collections, is a simple validation on write all that's needed I guess the objects also have methods that do various things. If anyone feels like offering any insight into the kinds of things their business objects do besides s ...Show All

• Manuel Basurto Async or Threading

  I find myself at a point where I must make a decision. I really don't know how to phrase this really well but I will try to the best of my ability. I am writing a client/server app where the server is constantly listening for new connections all the time. Because of this I know I must use either Async programming on the server for listening or I must use threading. Is Async programming more performant than Threading I see alot of people using A ...Show All

• Goran Verush UI Frameworks

  Hi, Wondering if anyone can point to some good UI frameworks. I've looked at the Composite UI Application Block and the UI Process Application Block. Just wondering if anyone knows of others that might be worth investigating. I'm primarily interested in this for use with Windows Forms, not ASP.NET Thanks, Matt I'll start some writing on the MVC topic and implementation of ingenious, if anyone ...Show All

• G1 Understanding Rete- Can some expert help

  Hi, I am doing evaluation of various BRE (Business rule engines). As a part of that, i need to understand RETE algorithm. I read most of the articles present online about the same but unable to understand it upto its root (Some of them are using CLIPS language which is even more difficult to understand). The articles talk about facts, LHS, RHS and conflict resolution. I understood that facts are values to the variables or statemen ...Show All

• ScottWK Information about Essential Unified Proccess

  There is some information available about Essential Unified Process, if not, when this could be Is this event presential or going to be online too I am in Ecuador - SouthAmerica Been waiting a while for the same: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=219862&SiteID=1 from Ivar Jacobson's site: Ivar Jacobson International are pleased to announce an event to for ...Show All

• TrevorL 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

• Proachbass91 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 Good Feedback Arnon. Makes sense. MCS guys were alway ...Show All

• Josh R VISIO version needed for "forward engineering"

  One of our team members reverse-engineered a database from a non-Windows platform into a VISIO diagram. I need to "forward" engineer this diagram into a sql 2000 database but can't locate the option in my copy of VISIO. Which version (Enterprise Architect, Prof, VS.NET 2003, 2005, etc) can forward engineer a database TIA, barkingdog If i'm not mistaken, you'll need the ...Show All

• Ricardo Oneda Pereira de Toledo 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

• n3tster Serviced component architecture issues (State management/ OOD).

  I've seen serviced components abused and misused due to inherent limitations in how COM operates and now I’m looking to architect a web based, OO, n-tier system and wish to avoid the same mistakes. In my system there are two architectural problems: Much of the data is common across users, complex and potentially quite large, which leads to a large number of objects when using standard OOD (not so good for COM as I understand ...Show All