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• JoeBuddha 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

• Codeguy 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

• waynehans 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

• sephtin Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• Loge 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

• hgalyan 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

• Mark Delderfield WSE 3.0 cannot be used with the Compact Framework 2.0 on Mobile 5.0 devices

  From an Architectural View, how are those of you Architecting Mobile Solutions, over coming this Here is a blog that I have asked the MS CF team to make responses too, hopefully they do. I have one response at the time of this forum entry. A related thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=247326&SiteID=1&mode=1 ...Show All

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

  Would love to hear your comments http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx Sorry Eddie, Tried contacting you but couldn't find ur email. Could you please do me a favour and check the comment on my blog it seems to be working fine... Thanks, Rohan Tried to reply with a comment to your blog but community server through a wobbly - here is my response: .......... Rohan - agree here with you. I ...Show All

• Jimmy_Sanu Biztalk problem

  Hi, I am facing problem in configuring Biztalk server 2004 on my machine running with windows 2000 professional and sql server 2000 client and sql server analysis services installed. I have successfully installled the biztalk server on my machine. After this, when i try to configure bzitalk on my PC, it gets stuck on database configurations. I give the remote sql server name with windows authentication but it does not allows me to proceed furth ...Show All

• AdkMan 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

• Scott Allen - OdeToCode.com Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks You will always have an Architecture when your project is done. You may either plan it, or inherit it from the results of your project’s development cycles. Planning gives your project a map to what has been built and a future. Inheriting it, makes your project a legacy application the day it is delivered. ...Show All

• Geeta file extension name collision

  I was recently browsing through some of my data files and noticed that windows has started calling my *.pdb files "program debug database" files. For many years, however these files were always understood (at least by me and everyone else in the science world) as being "protein data bank" files. The *.pdb file is the gold standard for protein structure data files, and the Protein Data Bank ( http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/Welcome.do ...Show All

• Jorge Pino 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 Hi, It's expected that app server is very powerful to handle the business logic by providing services like security, statemanagement,application conn ...Show All

• Tad O Visio and UML 2.0

  Are there any plans to realize UML 2.0 specification in Visio Thanks Dim Actually, Microsoft does not want to turn anybody away from using UML notation. However, as pointed out here we recommend using UML and UML-based tools for: Sketching. White boarding. Documentation. Conceptual drawings that do not directly relate to code. And, we recommend precisely defined DSLs and DSL-based t ...Show All

• silgenfritz good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application

  Hello, can anybody recommand a good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application I moved from VB6 to C#. Need a intrduction book for clear writing, not high level with samples. Some samples on N-tier design is better. Thanks. the patterns and practices books are a good start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ Jannet, In terms of smart clients , MS says this "Smart client isn't a technology, and i ...Show All