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• Sequel 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

• sidgam 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

• OwenSmith Problem Creating a BAM Activity with Excel

  Hi all, after defining activities and views while trying to save or export to xml I get the following message: "Valid chacarcters for names are letters, numbers, single space and undercscore and names must start with letter " i can't find any solution. Any ideas TNX in advance ...Show All

• Kgard 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. ...Show All

• Eric J. Johnson Domain-Specific Languages for Architecting Distributed System

  How does Domain-Specific Languages support for Architecting Distributed System DSLs as a concept are completely orthogonal to distributed systems. You can create DSLs for monolith single computer systems just as much as you can for a complex distributed system. One way to divide DSL types is to vertical languages - for vertical domains e.g. financial, defense etc. and the other type is horizontal languages. You can conceptually ...Show All

• JoelBarish Version Checking & upgrading in XP

  Can anyone tell me where to search for versions of Windows XP Professional How can I know that my OS is 64bits or 32 bits supporting system Moreover I want to know about the versions of sp1 & sp2_are both of them 64 bit if any XP ver is 32 bits then which one is it If anyone upgrade from sp1 to sp2 from microsoft.com then he has to download the Whole file(300mb file or above)or lesser amount of file or extensin Which one is latest i ...Show All

• Sudripta need som direction

  Hi All, I'm a overseeing a project using asp.net tech uppfront for data capture and vb.net client where the data is manually manipluated and then returned SQL Server and back to the Asp.net client. Have any of you heard of an instance where you have used IIS to cache to relieve performance problems is this a often occurrance isn't this a sign that the application as such is poorly designed Background to my question are based o ...Show All

• elix 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

• sysmaya Lazy linking pattern

  Lazy loading is a familiar pattern for hydrating business objects but has the drawback of being expensive when many objects need to retrieved (through many SQL queries). In a situation where there are perhaps 20 classes of object each with only 5 to 100 instances of each class, it may make sense to load each of the instances of each of the classes in one go. However linking these classes might be best done as required (hence 'lazy l ...Show All

• Dave Hunt 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

• DeanChalk SOA and .NET 2.0

  I am planning to do a technology update to my folks on the benefits of SOA, business with .Net 2.0 platform... I was wondering if you guys had done something like this before Appreciate your time... Thanks, Cheers! Creaturita, I'd suggest you begin your research with WCF and BizTalk. I agree ... WCF (Indigo) is the place to start I haven't done any, ...Show All

• nahn N-tier layer separations and connection/interaction

  I happen to be experimenting based on some examples I've found on the net but I want to be directed to the right path, those samples tend to be incomplete or misleading. In a typical N-tier scenario, which should reference which And is the use of Data Transfer Object in accordance to any best practice that maybe existing Accordingly, how does those layers supposed to connect/interact with one another eg. what does BLL passes to the DAL and w ...Show All

• HairyDan Delivering Agile Business Process & Integration Solutions Session

  Hi, I will be co-presenting a session on the second day under solutions titled: " Delivering Agile Business Process & Integration Solutions ". This session will cover architecting and implementing Business Process and Integrations solutions (BPI) the Agile Way. We believe that a traditional waterfall process often demands unrealistic skills and accuracy that inevitably leads to the architecture either being invalid or out of ...Show All

• geometrikal Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table

  Quality attribute requirements drive the design of architecture and the resulting views of the architecture.    A Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table results from several iterations of putting together different abstraction levels and then views of an architecture.   I had an old factor table that came from an old project that in the end the client decided would be to costly to move forward with.   I thought I ...Show All

• sansliguy How can I achieve self-documentation AND generality

  Here's the issue I am stuck with, and browsing through a ton of pattern books hasn't provided a solution as best I can tell. I have a problem that requires one of two possible solutions, and I am looking for perhaps a third that I'm not aware of. I have a set of classes that inherit from a base class, and each of these classes does some activity and returns a boolean result. The problem is that each of these classes requires a different numbe ...Show All