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• Stewart121839 WSE 3.0 solution

  I am designing a system that will be using WSE 3.0 with RM for message transfer. One of the endpoints of this system is BizTalk 2004 (may be 2006), which does not support WSE 3.0 natively. That means that I need to have Web Services component that will unwrap the message and send it (or drop it) to Biztalk. What would be your suggestions for exchanging messages between this Web Services component and Biztalk Maybe - what's your perfor ...Show All

• James.Geurts 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

• Curious Programmer 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

• jbarton Microsoft Architect Insight conference 22/23 March 2006

  Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, 22-23 March, Newport, UK This exclusive two-day retreat for senior enterprise, infrastructure and solutions architects, at The Celtic Manor Resort, will feature renowned industry speakers such as Ivar Jacobson, creator of the Rational Unified Process and Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, along with speakers from the event sponsors: Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and ThoughtWorks. ...Show All

• UZone 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

• www.GaaLive.com Visio For EA - database diagram - bold text for Req'd columns is not working properly

  All-- Please help. I have "Visio For Enterprise Architects (11.4301.6568)". I have database diagram. The bold text for Req'd columns is not working properly. That is... For some Req'd columns, the text IS bold-- which is the visual cue that shows at-a-glance whether or not a given column is required. That is good. That is what it is supposed to do. That is what looks nice. Excellent. ...BUT... For some other ...Show All

• jferrell1211 Business layer strategies

  Hi All, I am doing research on the all the possible Business layer stratigies(it is be compiled Vs workflow and rule engine or any other idea ).I need to know what all strategies and technologies are there in dotnet to achieve this. If somebody can refer me a good book especially on this topic, that would be of great help regards bhaskar seekbhaskar@gmail.com Book I have no idea, didnt really tr ...Show All

• Asistacular Architecture options for running a long process from an ASP.NET website

  Hi, We currently have a solution where a user can upload a file, which gets processed in an ASP.NET v1.1 intranet website The solution was designed to handle 10-100 items, but customers have (ab)used the solution to process 1000-10000 items. Processing 100 items takes less then a minute, processing 1000 items takes around 7 minutes, larger uploads take (non-linear) longer. Now besides performance tuning the processing, I want to gather ...Show All

• Hans Verkoijen CSNW registry settings

  I've been wrestling with CSNW (Client Services for Netware) for a few days on 2K and XP, trying to tune it to "play nice" with some of the old Client 32 installations, and I've found that this is like pulling teeth!  This does NOT like to be messed with! In trying to find where tuning can be done to the Netware redirector, I've pulled-apart nwrdr.sys and found what appears to be a comprehensive list of registry entries that can be used t ...Show All

• laura-magma Architecture templates

  I am in a small shop where we don't have UML tools or other design aids other than Visio. What I am looking for if there is any are templates or guides, standards for how a system architecture should be documented. That standard would also include how architecture should be documented graphically as well. Unless detailed, formal, documentation is a specific requirement (which, unfortunately is the case in many of the project's I handle t ...Show All

• DHGood 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

• mentoche Why use an application server?

  My boss wants me to explain to him the advantages of having an application server in our web app. Currently our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application --SY Hello, I am not sure if you would require an application server in this scenario. It looks great already. I think you should probably look at an applica ...Show All

• Graham Lower Is the MVC is good practive for developing window appication

  Hi I m developing windows appication, i need to decide about the architecture for this app., i want some suggestion regarding the architecture i should use for this. Can someone throw some light in this. Note : I m planning to use  NHIBERNATE for Data Layer (ORM mapping).     Design patterns such as MVC do have their advantages and disadvanges. The advantage is the they introduce lay ...Show All

• Tony63 Real Challenge to the architect for architecting and designing for FUTURE application development’s method.

  What do you think In my experience... Now “Software Factory” is the “Buzzword” To the architect real challenge to make “Platform Independent” auto generated coding tools which will be domain specific. How extent is this possible Here things are required, strong domain knowledge along with technical skills. If I talk about .NET initially this came as one of the best programming tools/language/platform – all together ...Show All

• poopiman Financial Services Architect Forum

  Hello, We held a Financial Services Architect forum in Canada recently where we disscussed a number of topics related to the financial industry, you can read a detailed 3 part report on the forum at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif , I am keen to know what architects working for the financial industry in other parts of the world have on their minds and suggestions for potential topics of discussions in these topics, some of the topics we co ...Show All