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• BruceJohnson SOA and the next achritecture?

  Hello, are there any meanings or researches what comes after SOA Regards, Jens Hibbeler Jens, I can't give you a real serious answer. I'm sure something will always come next, but what the next hot architecture topics is I can't say. The funniest thing I have heard lately is that SOA is on its way out and the Web 2.0 is the thing. I find this funny because it is like comparing apples to ...Show All

• spacebrawl 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

• Chris Erickson Doing what Microsoft does, not what they say to do… DNA, SOA, Software Architecture, VB.NET, CMMI, Agile Development

  Trying to weed through all the marketing driven releases from MS is not an easy task, but in the end it is something that always needs to be done. In this blog I discuss DNA, SOA, Software Architecture, VB.NET, CMMI, Agile Development - Doing what Microsoft does, not what they say to do… I would like to know if you are going through the same problems Steve Kelly has added some relevant thoughts to my ori ...Show All

• CurtVas 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

• manthrax 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

• Tilfried Weissenberger 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

• blanc Does XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute break the 3rd tenet of SOA ?

  The 3rd tenet of SOA, according to MS, states that "Services Share Schema and Contract". When I use the XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute in my shema, I actually say "when you call me, you will get in response one of the following possible types and you should check yourself the returned value to decide what you got from me". In the SO point of view, does this decleration of "possible" types makes my contract less ...Show All

• renmudi Best place to store across Layers

  Hi, In a layered ASP.NET application, with Entity/Collection, DAL, BLL, Service Facade, UI, I would like to know what is the best place to store information. This information could be either a primitive type such as a string, or a complex type such as Collection. We use Oracle 10g as DB and two servers for Load balancing. I'm unable to come to conclusion on giving a generic solution on when to use what, among the four options below: 1. Ses ...Show All

• Ruslan Popov Deleting Hotmail Contacts

  In my hotmail account it won't let me delete ANY of my contacts. I select one, press Delete, and it comes up with the message: Are you sure you want to delete the selected items(s) . I click (OK) and it refreshes, with the contact still there, undeleted, no matter what I do. Can anyone help me please This has been an issue for me for months- I recently submitted a ticket to support but haven't heard anything. does anyone know of any progr ...Show All

• Martin Carlisle Visio & SQL 2005 some oddities

  I have been working with the Visio for Enterprise Architects. I have a project that I’ve been using it for documentation on. I need to prepare a document for management on the project and I began with a clean reverse engineer. But while looking at the reports and I noticed some oddities. Several of the tables have notes. They are just erroneous notes from where I imported the tables from the original db from a sql server 7 but they are ...Show All

• Avanti Ketkar 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

• Steve Kass 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 When it comes to tiers and layers, most of the time I get it but then get confused over again in few cases. I want to go deeper and act dumb when i ...Show All

• Jalaj Chhalotre FAT16 file creation problem

  Hi all, I am trying to crate a file in USB memory stick which is having FAT16 file system. I am facing problems in creating file, when I increase the file name length. If file name length is 24 bytes file creation is successful. If I cross this i.e25 ..26 bytes file creation fails. Please let me know where am i going wrong. what are the limitations of FAT16 regarding file name. Thanking you, Sachin. ...Show All

• mryufy 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. As I said it would depend on the scale of your app. I could get a basic remoting base ...Show All

• stevenpr_MS SOA and the next achritecture?

  Hello, are there any meanings or researches what comes after SOA Regards, Jens Hibbeler Jens, I can't give you a real serious answer. I'm sure something will always come next, but what the next hot architecture topics is I can't say. The funniest thing I have heard lately is that SOA is on its way out and the Web 2.0 is the thing. I find this funny because it is like comparing apples to ...Show All