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• Jay McG Business Rules & Recommended Tools

  I'm looking at Mosaico, NxBre, Infrex, QuickRules and I'm wondering which, if any, would be a good choice for implementing a Business Rules system. My basic requirement is to be able to define business rules outside the code base so that when they change I don't have to recompile and redeploy the base application. I am wondering if anyone here has any experience with any of these tools and if so, which one did you prefer What are the major feat ...Show All

• LukaSoFt Datasets as the DAL?

  I was wondering if using datasets/adapters/datatables is a good way to manage my data access layer, or if I should keeping using this generic database library one of my friend wrote. Thanks, John I am in complete agreement with Arnon. Another important part of the decision should be based around the skill set of the development team. If your development team is not strong with OOAD then DDD is probably the wrong way to go. L ...Show All

• Mark Demeranville XMI to Model

  Hi, If we have an XMI file generated by a tool (used ArgoUML), is there a way to construct the model back from the XMI file (i.e. visually). Is there any tool or plugin which does that Thank you. Hi, Thanks. I will have a look at it. I used Poseidon. It was O.K. But it takes up a lot of resources and system becomes slow. It would be great if you coul ...Show All

• Aaron Firouz How to listen to a web service for a message receive.

  Is it possible to listen to a webservice (WS) when a message is received by the WS. Thanks, Sailu The web service processes "messages" by default. Could you be more specific with your question You can implement a SoapExtension. SoapExtensions allow you to intercept a web service call on teh way in or the way out (in fact they work on both the client and the server). They are very useful for processing a servic ...Show All

• pdq2 MSMQ vs Event/Delegate model as foundation for flexible application architechture?

  While architecting a framework for an application that is being developed, for which we plan to use 'messaging' as the primary data/information exchange mechanism, use we came across this dilemma: To use MSMQ or Event/Delegate model of .NET To elaborate a little further, the system would consist of User Data Management, Video Capture, Printing, UI, Remote UI and Remote Control interfaces etc. ALL interactions between these modules wo ...Show All

• Mojtaba 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

• PeterDamgaard Windows Network Multi-Language Compatibility

  I would like to deploy English Windows Server 2003 to host an email server, file server, database server, web server, terminal server, application server, all using ENGLISH software, and was wondering if all those services would be compatible with CHINESE Windows 98 / XP client computers. Are there any known issues with networking English / Non-English Windows computers Any input would be greatly apprecia ...Show All

• tschuler77 biztalk as a workflow

  I have started doing research on Biztalk 2006 for its BPM/workflow use. I need to know the answers to the following at the earliest.It is not possible without help from all of you.please contribute with your answers to as many questions as possible.You have to say only yes or no in most cases 1.Is it able to use .net classes created using VS.net as activities inside workflow. 2. Can we invoke workflow created in it being called from .n ...Show All

• FMaz 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 Hey Peter, Great solution hitting straight the target. I appreciate it. Cheers, Kanaiya Hi! I'm also having the same pr ...Show All

• anwar100s Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All

• Nazish Ahsan Server side for VBA - DCOM? .Net?

  Hi, I'm going to develop a server side component for a VBA front-end (Excel). I use VS.Net 2003. Is DCOM the way to go What are other options PS I've been developing COM components for VBA in .Net for quite a long period, and managed to make all I wanted. The main thing I wonder is if using DCOM instead of local COM seamless, or there're special issues Ruslan You've got Excel running on the client, a ...Show All

• jam281 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 My experience shows that having two separate projects (& hence assemblies) for business and data layers greatly promote code reuse and maintainabil ...Show All

• msbair Testing a server for Dual Core vs Single Core with/without HyperThreading

  I need to get a CPU count for licensing - i have a 4 way dual core that the OS reports as an 8 way - for licensing i care about sockets not cores - does anyone know of a way to get the socket count of a server Thanks As far as I know, there's no way to tell the different between two cores and two CPUs. You might be able to tell if HyperThreading exists; but that won't necesarily tell you how many socke ...Show All

• Draakje 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

• Zou Yu Typed DataSet versus DLinq

  The improvements typed dataset is really cool when compared to untyped datasets. How will ADO.net team enhance the typed features of typed dataset in c# 3.0 is DlinQ the mainstream or an alternative PS: many people I know doesn't want custom business entities. even though its off subject ... "it is a myth,that OO domain models have a better maintaniability over procedural/relational codes" You are correct it bei ...Show All