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• Fakhrul Islam Design pattern for interactive communications between users

  We have a need for two users to communicate interactively over a VPN connection through a DMZ. We are considering a smart client (internet side) talking to a web server (in the DMZ) talking to a smart client (within our network). Wondered if anyone knew of a design pattern (or any other solution) to this problem. What do you mean by synchronization Do you mean caching i don't know what to use there ...Show All

• MartinBrill Pimp My Ride? Pimp My Software first...

  Would love to hear your comments http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx Rohan Apologies - my email was/is eddie.hulme@(nospam)eds.com take out the nospam. Have replied via your blog, but just for rest of the community here who might be following this thread. You are correct, we spend to much time and effort when an analysis might show that the costs of re-engineering are cheaper than the patchin ...Show All

• Neo_xx Advantages of OOP ?

  Hello, Im a fun of OOP designs. I design my bussiness classes when I start a new project. Then maybe I will write mapper classes for bussiness classes to map DB tables or using an O/RM tool or an ODBMS . Think that this project is big one and it has long deadline. You will develop it 2 or 3 years. Requirements will be changed. To develop this project with OOP designs and n-Tier application design is good idea. But I am asking myself ...Show All

• Daniel Baum Benchmark for IIS and .Net 1.1 +

  Hi, I'm trying to find some data that shows different benchmarks on the capacity and scalability of IIS on different versions of .NET and Operating Systems (Win2k, Win2k3, Win2k3 Server). Any idea where I can find this type of data In particular I'm interested in hardware requirements, number of concurrent users/requests that it can handle based on the system configuration, differences between .NET versions and the different Operating S ...Show All

• Baskaran9324 A good second book about architecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. Thanks to all of you, but i am looking for something different, do you know any book that speak deeply about soa, n-tier, etc etc.. And all the example ...Show All

• Randy_ A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. I agree with Arnon. The is also excellent for Software Architecture: Software Systems Architecture This is cool, I saw it's coming in June.& ...Show All

• 1234aaron Databinding vs Multi-tier

  I'm a bit confused - see if you can help me out. It seems like microsoft is really big on the multi-tiered approach to development(presentation, business, data), but now, with visual studio 2005, they're also really pushing the new and improved typed dataset for databinding. Am I wrong, or is it virtually impossible to take full advantage of the new typed dataset and still separate your system into presentation and data layers You create a data ...Show All

• Lance P. Smith How can I add a DataSet to a Custom Entity Classes?

  Hi, How can I add a multi result set DataSet to a Custom Entity Classes Thanks, Sorry, I am trying to eliminate DS in my custom class, I want to fill a generic list with a multi result set DS. How about putting a new property of type DataSet in you class ...Show All

• Bakl Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All

• hassssan Integrating a Database driven application with Active Directory

  Below are the requirements for a sample application that needs to integrate with active directory. Any suggestions Sample application: EmployeeList Requirements: This application presents a list of employees to a user. The list should only display those employees that the user has access to. The employee data is stored in an Employees table in a database. Administrators must be able to define which users can access each e ...Show All

• tj01 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

• Terp Who is the appserver in .NET?...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server?

  Some days ago, a coworker ask me the following question: Who is the appserver in .NET ...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server ...after thinking for 5 seconds, I decided to anwser...well...it depends...could we all of them or neither. What do you think about An application server typically provides the following services: Application connectivity Transaction management Component life cycle management ...Show All

• techie_ns 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

• ForHeFirstLovedMe SOA message design

  Hi, I'm developing a system using web services with SOA principles. But I have doubts about the design of a message. For example, I want to expose a product catalog so the signature of my method would be: public FindProductResponse FindProduct(FindProductRequest request){........} FindProductResponse will return a collection with all the products that meet the criteria specified in the FindProductRequest object. But I don't know how to ...Show All

• JohnDeHope3 Typed DataSet versus DLinq

  The improvements typed dataset is really cool when compared to untyped datasets. How will ADO.net team enhance the typed features of typed dataset in c# 3.0 is DlinQ the mainstream or an alternative PS: many people I know doesn't want custom business entities. even though its off subject ... "it is a myth,that OO domain models have a better maintaniability over procedural/relational codes" You are correct it bei ...Show All