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• moobah 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

• Simone1 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

• hbcondo 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

• Daisy34001 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

• wojtek.n scalability implies using web services?

  Hi everyone I am an analyst- programmer here in Spain(I don't know what is the difference with a programmer, i usually do the same things) I am studying a lot about architecture right now because i am in a very big project in the company that recently has hire me, perhaps the biggest project of Spain. Because i am a computer engineer I like the big vision, not the fight with the vb6, this just pay my bills. We use a lot of com+ components, ...Show All

• Wedant Microsoft DataWarehouse String Resource Tool in Enterprise Library

  Hi, I notice that the Caching Application Block in Enterprise Library uses Microsoft DataWarehouse String Resource Tool to deal with strings. The tool simplifies the way we deal with lots of strings constants. I am wondering if that tool is publicly available. Thanks. visit < http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx id=295a464a-6072-4e25-94e2-91be63527327 > and search for "stri ...Show All

• David Szarenski 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

• Chad W Stoker 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

• jlawing 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

• masuday 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

• st3vl A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. I use all resources, including books. Web sites generally don't provide enough beginning to expert information. As for Microsoft sites, while I use the ...Show All

• Raghavendra Naik Integrated Windows Authentication Web service with WinForm

  I am trying to create a winform application that accesses web service hosted by IIS. The authentication scheme for IIS is set to Integrated Windows Authentication. My Question is how can I get my Winform application to behave like Outlook application authentication process. ie. When you are logged into a proper Domain, ie. will not prompt for user credentials. However, if you are not logged in to proper domain, I'll get challenged with Userna ...Show All

• sich 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. Thanks, and how the present looks like ;) I know this blog and DSL a bit but it stilll far from perfection at the moment. Pawel, I am really interested in your picture of 'perfection'. What do you think would make contract-first (or whatever they call it today) perfect Thanks, Christian Hi Christian, I am only saying that this ...Show All

• scorpion89 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, I was introduce to Design Patterns by my Java Architects friends, and I started to design .NET application with similar Architecture. Now every project that I'm into I look for the best pratices and patterns to use. In my l ...Show All

• iso What about making domain specific "Enterprise Library" ?

  Presently "Enterprise Library" is related to Application Development Process. Desinging "Enterprise Library" for the best practices is good. But what about making enterprise library... related to Solution Specific, I mean to say domain specific... For eg. - Financial, Manufacturing, ...etc. Hi, Don't you think it is tough because we are inhibited by today's languages (i.e C#, Java)... ;) I am not an expert in ...Show All