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• Flecki a good book for people in the other (dark?) side

  Well, my sister is going to organize a very very big scada project. She is physics and she don't know anything about programming, don't know anything about soa, n-tier or even how to program in java or .net. She will be the client role for another company :) Do you know any good book for that kind of people One that says: "don't change requisites everyday" :) and things like that. Just for sending it to her as a gift. Thanks ...Show All

• cwatkins-gd Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All

• mgoldin Architecture for Product Development

  We are in the design phase of a Product XXX(Web Application ), the Product has several modules (M1.M2,M3....) and each module will be derived from common modules (CM1,CM2,CM3.....) in a many to many relationship. We got the requirements for a single module (M1) and we are planning to deliver a product with this existing module (M1) and add other modules in future as a plug-in to the existing module. We have some experience in UIPAB (User Inte ...Show All

• Anna Ahn Entity Aggregation in the BLL/DAL world

  Hi all, I've started to read the paper about entity aggregation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dngrfSOAChallenges-EntityAggregation.asp ) and I've started to wonder - In layered service programming, where you have the service interface, the business process, business components and data components, we sometimes want to do an aggregation of entities (for example - an order might contains the order ...Show All

• Peter Han 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

• jd_says_godawgs_sicem 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. Hi Mauro, ...Show All

• DJWildBill biztalk and the System Messaging namespace

  When communicating with Biztalk, does the System.Messaging namespace seem a good place to start writing objects The Global Bank example seems to use its own mechanism for Biztalk and uses the namespace for MSMQ only. Is there a reason for this Thanks for any advice Jason I don't understand your question. You comunicate with the msmq, and BizTalk communicates with the msmq in its port.. Your pro ...Show All

• Ljubica how to install several programs in farm

  I am beginning in a project which is a total disaster. The company has done a lot of things that I don't like so much, but I am an analyst-programmer, so I have not voice for changing anything. One issue is that all the modules of the different programs are in all the machines of the farm (>100 servers). So the load is balanced between all of them. I think that this works but isn't a good policy: 1) Perhaps if a program fails It c ...Show All

• Enrique0210 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 3rd Party development Interoperability == keep contract first development in mind... Pawel, Are you saying that you want ...Show All

• Bill A 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

• xinvar UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

  One of the problems I have found in VSTS 2005 is the lack of modeling tools for the Software Architect. Jack Greenfield addressed and answered my concerns here . He also said MS is working on some addressing some of the issues. I responded to him here . I needed something today to allow me to continue doing my job which currently is implementing a product line engineering process. I am using UML on this project. In case you are interes ...Show All

• cyx 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. Ok that seems to make some sense with all players at the same table being on the same se ...Show All

• music_at_ulan Database Design based on Service Oriented Architecture.

  iam working on a project in which i have a Requirement that , we have some basic attributes of every service such as. Service No , Description , Name , Service Type , in a service Table but we have some service that has more attributes + the simple attributes such as take a example of a service of it department we are creating on a system , such as New User id service , now in this case we have some advance attributes othen then simple , ...Show All

• avatary2k Architecture for Product Development

  We are in the design phase of a Product XXX(Web Application ), the Product has several modules (M1.M2,M3....) and each module will be derived from common modules (CM1,CM2,CM3.....) in a many to many relationship. We got the requirements for a single module (M1) and we are planning to deliver a product with this existing module (M1) and add other modules in future as a plug-in to the existing module. We have some experience in UIPAB (User Inte ...Show All

• QldKev Migrating Lotus Notes Application to the Microsoft

  Hi All, I am about to migrate about 70 lotus notes application to the Microsoft Platform and I am wondering what are the alternates targets architectures. Which one is the best target architecture and why. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Kikala You may want to check out Microsoft's groove ( www.groove.net ) that has some of notes features as well as few migration too ...Show All