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• Sivasubramaniyam V Design Patterns

  What is the usage of common GoF design patterns in daily coding I ask this because as a developer I'm constantly trying to improve both my code and my overall design, to create software that's easy to maintain and easy to extend--- hopefully easy to change without effecting the 'client' aspect through the use of interfaces etc--- Is there a more straight forward application of certain design patterns For example, does anyone sit down and actu ...Show All

• adrian3894 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 My experience shows that having two separate projects (& hence assemblies) for business and data layers greatly promote code reuse and maintainabil ...Show All

• Charles Brownmiller Biztalk server 2004 Data Access

  Can I use a Data Access tier without writing a adapter in biztalk 2004 for a receive location Thnx alot all. Clemens Reijnen! your question do you really need biztalk Yes there are three major reasons of chosing biztalk 1- Runtime workflow definations. 2- communication with swift using swift Acclerator. 3- integration with third party systems like Routers other banking components. Anyhow after all my search and research best and s ...Show All

• Jon Cortez Architecture templates

  I am in a small shop where we don't have UML tools or other design aids other than Visio. What I am looking for if there is any are templates or guides, standards for how a system architecture should be documented. That standard would also include how architecture should be documented graphically as well. Unless detailed, formal, documentation is a specific requirement (which, unfortunately is the case in many of the project's I handle t ...Show All

• Diego Vargas the best XML Based Graphs Format?

  hi I have a situation, so I'm looking for some help I need to manage graphs in a Microsoft Visual C# 2005 application. this implies that I need to transfer the graphs, I'm going to use an XML based format, but I don't know which one to use. I don't have enough criteria to decide which one is better. I briefly looked at two existing XMLs for describing graphs: http://www.gupro.de/GXL/Introduction/intro.html http://ftp.cwi.nl/CWIreports/I ...Show All

• Don Miller Architecture question - how to store local copies of data on a server

  My work order application needs to do the following: 1) User has a windows forms client on their laptop, PC, or even mobile client. 2) When they have an active connection, they can connect to a web service to view new tasks, mark the ones they want to download to their local machine, then disconnect. 3) They can then edit their local copies of these tasks, then re-synch with the server when they next have a connection. Reason being, ...Show All

• boycali01 WSE 3.0 solution

  I am designing a system that will be using WSE 3.0 with RM for message transfer. One of the endpoints of this system is BizTalk 2004 (may be 2006), which does not support WSE 3.0 natively. That means that I need to have Web Services component that will unwrap the message and send it (or drop it) to Biztalk. What would be your suggestions for exchanging messages between this Web Services component and Biztalk What's the interaction sty ...Show All

• cheong00 Top Down or Bottom Up SOA?

  This question has been plauquing me for a while. When attempting to deliver to an enterprise service-oriented strategy is it better to do bottom up governance or top down Here's what I mean by this. 1. With bottom up design governance you work to have any line of business application deliver services at the time they deliver their application. Through the conceptual design and envisioning of this application discrete business functions are f ...Show All

• Steve Maine 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. Bla ...Show All

• TeamWild 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

• Felix Lo Visio and UML 2.0

  Are there any plans to realize UML 2.0 specification in Visio Thanks Dim Hi, I don't work at Microsoft, but from what it seems, Microsoft is pushing towards using DSLs instead of UML notation, so it doesn't seems there will be an update to the visio's uml template. If you want to use UML my advice to you - try other tools (such as sparx EA, rational tools etc). Ido. Actually, ...Show All

• TechWriter Drive mapping issue

  I have installed Windows XP professional and in My Harddisk i have three partitions ,namely c:.d:,E:,apart from this i map network folder to drive to f:,but when i do that and then i insert my usb Mass storage ,it get displayed in the device manager but i dont see it in the "MY Computers". whereas if i dont map anything to drive f: and then if i insert my usb mass storage ,then it shows up as drive f:. is this a microsoft bug or im mis ...Show All

• klavsm Is Microsoft bevore a big process problem?

  My intention of windows is that microsoft is supporting his own los of data. How can Microsoft deal with the crouwd of data. Is microsoft able to know their import or export of data they have - In what kind is this data to fetch and how are they able to analyze this - What informations is Microsoft (windows xp) analyzing about the person. My own thought of this is to have a system that is able to know the structure of the intended files/compo ...Show All

• Heta Thakkar General business object requirements

  For those of you who have worked on medium to large sized projects, or anyone who has an opinion , I would like to know what types of logic an application needs in the business layer. If the objects expose properties and collections, is a simple validation on write all that's needed I guess the objects also have methods that do various things. If anyone feels like offering any insight into the kinds of things their business objects do besides s ...Show All

• purpleton 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