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• cobain81 Architecture Meetings

  I last joined the Patterns and Practices summit in Redmond , and I think that is a great meeting for software architects to meet other architects and to learn some new patterns and best practices from Microsoft. Patterns is a must know for a software architect.   Does anybody know other meetings and has an opinion about it, I think that there are a few which you must join, one of them is the patterns summit, the other i ...Show All

• HenryHan Safely access file from a Web server

  Hello, I work on a project where clients access to a database and a files storage system (NTFS). On a LAN, all works fine but we would like to allow user to access those data from Internet. My question is: how our Web server can safely access to the file storage Is it acceptable to access directly to the files Must we develop a kind of application server In this case, which kind of technology could be used Lastly, if my web serve ...Show All

• Dylan Beattie Deleting Hotmail Contacts

  In my hotmail account it won't let me delete ANY of my contacts. I select one, press Delete, and it comes up with the message: Are you sure you want to delete the selected items(s) . I click (OK) and it refreshes, with the contact still there, undeleted, no matter what I do. Can anyone help me please um i know this isnt the same subject, but i've been trying to delete my hotmail account for some time now, and it keeps telling me that i ha ...Show All

• Manoj Sharma 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 It is not that rule engines require OR mapping as much as rule engines are part of the business logic and thus don't run on the database itself As someone told you on another thread - you don't have to use "real" objects for the rule ...Show All

• Kamil Kovar help on writing messaging adapters

  Hello, Guidance requested on writing messaging adapters! My system uses a messaging backbone transporting Xml files not SOAP web services. The message system is Biztalk but that should be irrelevant. I would like guidance on how to design and implement the adapters that take binary data from the business layers and communicate with the backbone. To produce a good adapter, I think I should implement several messaging design patterns. ...Show All

• Max Andrade IntraLayer Communication

  Typically when passing data between various layers normally most recommend use of custom entities because it allows the developer to write code which gives finer control to the data. The other means could be usage of dataset, typed dataset. The way I look at it, custom entities take time to code and at the same time one needs to also write logic for retrieving data from database and looping record per record into an array of custo ...Show All

• meghanath How I can let users to extend database schema?

  Hi. Your help is very appreciated. I want to build an app that is basically a client db. For that I am contructing a "client" class (that has - name, address, contact details etc...). However, I want to enable my users, to add properties to my "client" class WITOUHT needing to change my code . i.e. some clients might require an "age" and "annual income" properties as part of the "client" class. Which design pattern(s) might assist me ...Show All

• abhig 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

• Venkatesh Kumar S db design question. . .

  My boss and I are having a disagreement. In our schema (SQL 2000), we have SSN nullable indexed. A year ago, we took a job that allowed one of our clients to do some batch processing that updated their HR database personnel into our database. The driver on this was an employee number. If the employee number is found, data is updated, if not it is inserted. Everything worked fine when it was one branch office. ...Show All

• Joe C... 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

• BusmasterJones Skelta Vs WWF

  I need to design a workflow application. If we set aside the fact that the WWF is still in beta phase, what would you recommend ; skelta or WWF. I think that WWF misses some features like email etc but has a strong support. Skelta makes the work very tedious like mentioning the workflow variables in different xml's, using its own libraries to access database etc. Please give recommendations with reasons in support. Thanks in ad ...Show All

• Psilent Dev Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks 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 these subjects on the web. I ...Show All

• Phantsy Tools for Architects Blog

  This blog contains a current discussion of tools for .net architects and I thought it may prove to be interesting the the readers of this forum. ...Show All

• Wilbert Architecture to access userdater of multiply sources

  Hi! I've got a architecture question, wich might by very special and complex: We are developing a product for utilities, wich can be used to track issues (gas, water, elctricity). We use a three layer Architecture wich is: - Top Layer: Web Client (ASP.NET) - Business Layer (Clases with multiply access methods: web service, remoting, direct access) - Datalayer (DAO pattern) The Problem is, that we need a common way of acessing persons, wich mi ...Show All

• JazzGuitar68 DAL Generator using Reflection

  Hello, I decided to develop an abstract class that my objects could inherit from and it'd generate Update/Insert/Select/Delete statements for me and I like the way it is structure and works but I do believe that the code itself could be written a little cleaner but since I'm rather inexperience I don't really know everything that is right/wrong so I was wondering if you guys would help me improve my architecture for my DatabaseWrapper. Here is ...Show All