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• sarran Choosing deisng pattern

  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

• yogiberr how to install several programs in farm

  I am beginning in a project which is a total disaster. The company has done a lot of things that I don't like so much, but I am an analyst-programmer, so I have not voice for changing anything. One issue is that all the modules of the different programs are in all the machines of the farm (>100 servers). So the load is balanced between all of them. I think that this works but isn't a good policy: 1) Perhaps if a program fails It c ...Show All

• BruceH12 UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

  One of the problems I have found in VSTS 2005 is the lack of modeling tools for the Software Architect. Jack Greenfield addressed and answered my concerns here . He also said MS is working on some addressing some of the issues. I responded to him here . I needed something today to allow me to continue doing my job which currently is implementing a product line engineering process. I am using UML on this project. In case you are interes ...Show All

• fightingzero Architectural considerations when developing a .Net solution with intergaration to Legacy apps

  I need to develop a web based application wherein the data would be retrieved from Mainframes and other legacy apps. I know that there would be a limit in connections that I can open to connect to this legacy systems. Even though my web application on the top would be able to take that load but internally when request get queued up at the legacy end things go for a toss. Trouble is I can change the interface to the legacy applicati ...Show All

• jbog91 Mediator Pattern or Windows Event-based Pattern for the UI?

  Hello. I am partly done on the business object coding and am now engaging on the windows forms coding. We are actually designing reusable user controls since a number of these user control components can be used on a different project. In this note I am now delving in complicated way of updating/notifying/synchronizing my user controls on a form. Do I use the event-based type of pattern to notify my main form of a change that happene ...Show All

• Stephen Hauck Integrated Windows Authentication Web service with WinForm

  I am trying to create a winform application that accesses web service hosted by IIS. The authentication scheme for IIS is set to Integrated Windows Authentication. My Question is how can I get my Winform application to behave like Outlook application authentication process. ie. When you are logged into a proper Domain, ie. will not prompt for user credentials. However, if you are not logged in to proper domain, I'll get challenged with Userna ...Show All

• TheMattMan Microsoft Certifications- Good, Bad, or Ugly?

  I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right.  I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the blog. I want to know how off base or on base the architecture community feels my opinion is. Har ...Show All

• Jay S BPEL, XPDL and BPMN

  "BPEL is a standard which supports webservices and system to system applications workflow. For more of a human workflow, XPDL promoted by WFMC is the best." "BPMN is for modelling and supports both XPDL and BPEL. Simple BPEL based modelling tools for BPMS systems lacks a lot compared to BPMN based systems" Please provide me with your comments on the above statements. Also that, what standards are been followed in WF. ...Show All

• vessel .NET 2.0 Tools Evaluation (Part II- Update) - DSL, GAT, SQL 2005, Mobile 5, VSTS, Enterprise Library, Reporting Services, etc.

  Here is an update on our progress with the Microsoft products and toolkits that we are considering for use on my current project. The first post is here . It may help if you are considering using the same products and toolkits. Here is the list of products and toolkits we are evaluating: Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Tools Software Factories Guidance Automation Toolkit Composite UI Application Block Enterprise Library .NET 2.0 rele ...Show All

• Adam_W Spcification of web services you need from third-party company

  I want third-party company to implement bunch of web services. I wonder what it is the best way to specify them. I can create wsdl for them, is it ok Interoperability is very important because services will run on non-windows machine and clients will run on windows boxes. thanks in advance for any info You can check this out for more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/ServiceStation/ HTHs... Pawel, Regardles ...Show All

• Miguel Angel Gracia Choosing deisng pattern

  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

• sassabrassa 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

• Yulia Mediator Pattern or Windows Event-based Pattern for the UI?

  Hello. I am partly done on the business object coding and am now engaging on the windows forms coding. We are actually designing reusable user controls since a number of these user control components can be used on a different project. In this note I am now delving in complicated way of updating/notifying/synchronizing my user controls on a form. Do I use the event-based type of pattern to notify my main form of a change that happene ...Show All

• Sameh Abdelwahab "Unique ID" server for multi-server app

  I'm building an ASP.NET app that I hope will scale to need multiple servers. For certain objects, I'd like to provide users with an "External ID". This would be either a user entered or randomly generated string, like "Fred's Data" or "q1g52xTK". This external ID would be associated with a GUID, and would allow the user to get at the object without having to know the GUID (such as at log-in). (They will also be a ...Show All

• Cameron Slade 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