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• jgodfjhgojfd IT Architecture Seminar

  National Academy for Software Development , with the support of IASA and Microsoft, organizes IT architecture seminar on April 18, 2006 in Hotel "Hilton", Sofia, Bulgaria. Special guests of the event will be the President of the International Association of Software Architects ( IASA ), Paul Preiss and Joseph Williams, Global Technology Director in Microsoft . You can find the registration form along with complete inform ...Show All

• Z Z Software architecture... I'm stuck!

  Hi all! I'm currently stuck in the design process of my next app. This is nothing new as I've been trying to get past this particular hurdle (over several projects) for the last 3-4 years without much success. Everything goes well until the end of the requirement gathering phase. I have a list of detailed , categorized requirements and I think the next logical step would be to work on the architecture of the project at a highest possible level o ...Show All

• Kibi 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. I am just curious here. how many connections are you talking about supporting a f ...Show All

• auryx 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

• edworkerkcmsd designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

  Hello, I am at a stage where I want to develop and application that will work the same whether if you are online or offline. I can always write an application that hooks up to a server while online (connected to a network) and queries a db for the interactions bewteen the user and the app. Then when offline have another app that looks at the local database... but i don't want to write two apps... I want to build an app like outlook ...Show All

• cubexsystems dll problem.

  How do we ensure that a DLL in a solution is updated when a referenced solution is compiled We are currently in the process of migrating our software package from RPG code into AVR.net. Currently, we are running our application on an AS/400. Within our existing code and from within any program running on the AS/400, there are external program calls which will simply call another RPG program. In particular, we have one p ...Show All

• FINET73 coding conventions in SQL

  Do you have any document that gives coding conventions for SQL something like: index should start with idx and continue with.. blablabla Thanks :) http://www.live.com/#q=coding%20conventions%20in%20SQL&offset=1 ...Show All

• nLella designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

  Hello, I am at a stage where I want to develop and application that will work the same whether if you are online or offline. I can always write an application that hooks up to a server while online (connected to a network) and queries a db for the interactions bewteen the user and the app. Then when offline have another app that looks at the local database... but i don't want to write two apps... I want to build an app like outlook ...Show All

• Ryofire_Net Entities

  I'm starting the following project: A multi database (SQL Server, Oracle and Firebird) using Winforms in the presentation layer and Web Services in the middle tier. My principal question is about the best way to implement the entities transit between the layers. I'm thinking in this option: a typed dataset based entities without the default adapters created by the VS 2005. Instead I will use a Helper class to factoring the multi database feat ...Show All

• Mike Allen Mc Donogh 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. One other important point. I am in a small shop where we don't have any architecture/modeling tools other than Visio and management what ...Show All

• EcnS VISIO version needed for "forward engineering"

  One of our team members reverse-engineered a database from a non-Windows platform into a VISIO diagram. I need to "forward" engineer this diagram into a sql 2000 database but can't locate the option in my copy of VISIO. Which version (Enterprise Architect, Prof, VS.NET 2003, 2005, etc) can forward engineer a database TIA, barkingdog If i'm not mistaken, you'll need the ...Show All

• nag_ravi design issues in client-server system

  Hi, I design a soft real-time system that should handle different clients’ requests and activities (such as telephone calls, processing of different types of events occurring during the calls, inserting these calls into the Data Base). Thus my server has to provide the client with suitable interfaces allowing opening new session, new call, close the call, update the call etc. and, at the same time, the server has to send events that ca ...Show All

• twoot22 Define BLL and DAL as static classes ?

  Hi all, I know the immediate answer is NO ! Yea, Yea, I know that if I want my class to be able to inherit from serviced component and be able to work well in com+ transaction I'll need to be able to instanciate an object. But in my case, I have a business workflow layer, which handles the transaction (using the new TransactionScope class - wonderfull class !! try it !!), so I don't see the need to instanciate a BLL and DAL, and they ca ...Show All

• Mitch0820 Scenario help please

  My scenario is the next: I deploy my application to my clients with ClickOnce, but my clients can modify the code of the application (adding new attributes to the classes), and can personalize the user interface. How I can deploy a new version of my application to my clients without breaking the changes of my clients I need help. You should store the personalized data & attributes in a diffe ...Show All

• ChuckD_Duncan Architectural Styles

  Hi, I have a few open queries in my mind on architectural styles. I have just put them as questions below. Can someone advise 1. What is an Architectural Style and What purpose does it solve 2. When do we use architectural styles (i.e at what phase of a project) 3. What are the different architecture style Some of them that I am aware of are Layered, OO, Client Server, RPC, Structured. 4. How can one add a style Is style a pattern ...Show All