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• rewant Storing User Information (IIdentity or Custom Object)

  When the user logs into the system, I need to go grab some information (Full Name, Email, EmployeeID, Etc.) and store it in a global place for the application to get at. I can think of two options off the back. I could create my own custom principal / identity classes and store the information in here, or I could go ahead and create a UserProfile object and make it a singleton and store it there. Which option do you guys think sounds more approp ...Show All

• Prizz 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

• Len Miller 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

• DanR1 Integrating a Database driven application with Active Directory

  Below are the requirements for a sample application that needs to integrate with active directory. Any suggestions Sample application: EmployeeList Requirements: This application presents a list of employees to a user. The list should only display those employees that the user has access to. The employee data is stored in an Employees table in a database. Administrators must be able to define which users can access each e ...Show All

• P S Hall 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. I'v ...Show All

• sgudavalli windows workflow foundation

  Hi, I am new to WF.I am not yet sure what type of applications can be easily designed using WF(windows workflow foundation), though people say that it can be applications like call center application, loan s/w etc. Every control provided in workflow toolbox(VS.net 2005) like "invokewebservice","delay","code",parallel","ifelse" works in same way as we wrote code for these in earlier versions.What ...Show All

• alex222 Need for MINI OS

  I do embedded systems at times and i would like to utilize the power of the XP core without the overhead of the GUI on the actually embedded system. I would like to turn off the GUI comletely. It would be nice because windows API is more programmer friendly than Linux. Plus the tools are more reliable. You will probably find the Windows CE API has most of the Windows API you need, you will find embedded XP easier then you mig ...Show All

• Nick Porter Spcification of web services you need from third-party company

  I want third-party company to implement bunch of web services. I wonder what it is the best way to specify them. I can create wsdl for them, is it ok Interoperability is very important because services will run on non-windows machine and clients will run on windows boxes. thanks in advance for any info Yeap.. Thats what I am refering to as well... To be precise, you should adopt a contract first development method. So what you do i ...Show All

• Sameh Abdelwahab When to factories and interfaces in a component

  Hello everyone. When developing a component should I always handle creation of objects with a factory Should the objects that my component contains always be fronted with an interface For example a component to manage a user account database being consumed in-proc by an ASP.NET web app. Which do you think a better design in most cases for the UserMgr component : 1.) using UserMgr; public void Page_Load { IUsers users = ...Show All

• Ballu2006 Design Patterns & Best Practices

  Hi All, Is'nt good if we can start discussing some good practices for Design Patterns Implementation (Adding to P & P Best practices documentation) using .NET and other MS Technologies Thanks Sudhakar Hi, can anybody explain about usage of Bridge pattern and Adapter pattern in c# dot net 1.1 Thanks in advance Hi, I was introduce to Design Patterns by my Java Architects frien ...Show All

• eddy400 finding design patterns from Model or P.E file

  Hi,        Are there any tools or APIs that take a model (as XMI probably) or a P.E file (so in effect, source code won't be available) and give the design patterns that were used in the model Which classes participate in which patterns and related info It could probably be one of the stages in reverse engineering, isn't       Thank you. " Regardin ...Show All

• Stefan_MS UI Frameworks

  Hi, Wondering if anyone can point to some good UI frameworks. I've looked at the Composite UI Application Block and the UI Process Application Block. Just wondering if anyone knows of others that might be worth investigating. I'm primarily interested in this for use with Windows Forms, not ASP.NET Thanks, Matt I really like MS CAB Block. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it is very flexible ...Show All

• Balram19696 the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. Hi .Net programming is not always limited to SQl databases. What kind of ORM tool would be suggested if the databse is something like DB2 running on a Mainframe box (assume adapters like DataDirect is already there to talk with the Db2 instance) Besides, how do tools like Codus or Persistor.net integrates with Enterprise Library from MS (Jun ...Show All

• Adem Çiçek Code statistics tool

  I am searching for a tool that gives me statistics for a solution or a project like number of code lines, number of methods, etc. It is prefered to be a free tool. if any one knows such a tool I would be very thankful. Hi, I use NANT in our Dailybuild proces to generate codestats. http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/codestats.html Clemens Reijnen I'm not sure if it does everything you want, ...Show All

• John Gallagher Contract first - what tools do you recommend?

  Hajo, I know about addin from Thinkcenture but I'm wondering if you use other tools, addins, etc. OK, but again: please tell us what you want to see and what you consider as 'perfect'. As always, just complaining does not help, eh If you have any experience in and have ideas of what you think should go into both guidance and tooling, so please let us know. Cheers. In my opinion the future will look something like what Christian We ...Show All