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• Polaris7* 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

• Geert_ One Server AD, Exchange & MS-SQL

  Hi All, Is it possible to run AD, File Sharing, Exchange and MS-SQL all on one Xeon server with 2GB RAM Beside the obvious that all the eggs are in one basket. This is for a small environment with only 30 users. My concern is that there are some conflict running all those application on one server. TIA Hi, Microsoft have a product named Small Business Server 2003 which you can find the feat ...Show All

• Brian Lowe %TEMP% Env Variable

  Is there a need for having multiple values for the System's %TEMP% variable From a design point of view, is it safe to assume it as a single valued variable Incase it is a multi-entry variable is there a registry entry or some reference that separates the %TEMP% value created by Windows and %TEMP% value created by a 3rd party program How can I make sure that I use the one that is defaulted/created by Windows Thanks in advance! In . ...Show All

• atmuc Business Rules & Recommended Tools

  I'm looking at Mosaico, NxBre, Infrex, QuickRules and I'm wondering which, if any, would be a good choice for implementing a Business Rules system. My basic requirement is to be able to define business rules outside the code base so that when they change I don't have to recompile and redeploy the base application. I am wondering if anyone here has any experience with any of these tools and if so, which one did you prefer What are the major feat ...Show All

• Michael_SHG Problem of builiding the UIP Assemblies

  Hello, the problem that I found with UIPAB is when I tried to build the two assemblies from the the 2 projects :Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data and Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess ... knowing that the conversion log from visual sutdio 2003 to visual sutdio 2005 had displayed errors...(I must mention that the UIPAB is implemented with VS 2003 and I am using the 2005 one ) So should I presume that is the origin of the problem Thanks for ...Show All

• james100 Visio Modeling and Database/Column Notes

  I am using Visio for Enterprise Architects that came with the latest release of Visual Studio 2005 and am designing a new database from scratch. I have commented all tables and columns but cannot find a way to pass those values into the database during creation. This is a vital component or any database modeling tool (such as ERwin) and am curious why this seems to not be supported. I am creating the database in SQL Server 2005. If there is a ...Show All

• geofff 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! ok! thanks a lot! :D Some would argue that you should avoid using properties all together. They introduce ambiguity as to what the property ...Show All

• Krishi SoBI Presentation

  Hi, Sean Gordon and I will be presenting a session on Service oriented Business Intelligence (SoBI). It will be based around our recent article in the Microsoft Journal 6 ( http://www.architecturejournal.net/2006/issue6/Jour6SOBI/ ). We are very much looking forward to an open and interactive discussion of the concepts and implementation of SoBI, so please take a look at the article and post any comment or questions you have ...Show All

• ens 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

• TomTogg biztalk as a workflow

  I have started doing research on Biztalk 2006 for its BPM/workflow use. I need to know the answers to the following at the earliest.It is not possible without help from all of you.please contribute with your answers to as many questions as possible.You have to say only yes or no in most cases 1.Is it able to use .net classes created using VS.net as activities inside workflow. 2. Can we invoke workflow created in it being called from .n ...Show All

• Paul_G Win2003 Server with multiple NICs DNS problem

  I have a small sized network with 2 domain controllers which also double as Web Servers. They are both in the same domain and both of them have two NICs. The second NIC is used on both computers (along with two others) to tie them in a NLB cluster. These two domain controllers also are DNS servers and I'm having trouble configuring the DNS properly. Since both computers have 4 IP addresses (two configured on each NIC) the DNS Servers reg ...Show All

• Devteam the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. appreciated........ .  writes too fast sometimes........   No, the Codus/NVelocity generates code. With the NHibernate we looked at its source code  in addition to testing it out. NHibernate of course is a very good tool, but we wanted a strongly typed DAL with generated code so ...Show All

• Owen37 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

• Tonius Architecting BLL, DAL and DB for bulk entity updates

  Hi all, My situation is as follows: I have a service that receives a list of some entity in order to do some kind of operation on each of the entities in the list: 1. The operation is the same for each of the entities (updates one of the fields) 2. There is a logical test to perform on each entity in order to know if the operation can be made or not 3. The response of the service is the original list of entities, where for each of ...Show All

• Mukilan cost of workflow

  Can anybody let me know the cost of any of the following software for BPM: 1. K2 2.Agilepoint 3.Captaris 4.Skelta 5.LogicBase 6.Ultimus ...Show All