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• DragonFly2 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

• Pankaj Banga Pimp My Ride? Pimp My Software first...

  Would love to hear your comments http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx Sorry Eddie, Tried contacting you but couldn't find ur email. Could you please do me a favour and check the comment on my blog it seems to be working fine... Thanks, Rohan Tried to reply with a comment to your blog but community server through a wobbly - here is my response: .......... Rohan - agree here with you. I ...Show All

• lovemory Scenario help please

  My scenario is the next: I deploy my application to my clients with ClickOnce, but my clients can modify the code of the application (adding new attributes to the classes), and can personalize the user interface. How I can deploy a new version of my application to my clients without breaking the changes of my clients I need help. Where clients can change code... I'm very curious in what kind of ...Show All

• Plume-Tsee Architecture question - how to store local copies of data on a server

  My work order application needs to do the following: 1) User has a windows forms client on their laptop, PC, or even mobile client. 2) When they have an active connection, they can connect to a web service to view new tasks, mark the ones they want to download to their local machine, then disconnect. 3) They can then edit their local copies of these tasks, then re-synch with the server when they next have a connection. Reason being, ...Show All

• jlp3630 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

• ATS.NET Windows Zip

  Hi Is it possible to use the windows zip function on the command line I want to incorporate this into my program. I know there is an add on for win zip but was wondering if its possible to do with the windows own version... Cheers Ok...do you think it would be possible to incorporate this into a perl script Hmm... I tried to access ZIP folders using COM, but m ...Show All

• Kemp Brown MSFT Limit processor frequency in windows

  Most of the new processors support a range of frequencies (like: 600 - 1700 MHz). Through the PWR managment schemes i can change the processor to be adaptive (min - max), constant (max), most battery (min). Does windows give an interface to define a certain range of frequencies or to run the processor on a given frequency If not is there any way to do it Thanks alot, Hisham AFAIK, Windows doesn't allow controlling CPU at the ...Show All

• Uhh Synergising Whitehorse, DSL's, GAT, Enterprise templates etc

  Hi, This is my first post in this architecture forum. Theres some really good stuff floating around in the posts. Nice community. Hope I can contribute something useful. Anyway, heres something i've been thinking about since i attended TechEd Amsterdam last year. Beat Schwegler showed us a GAT package named Melted Cheese which created a 6 or 7 layer web service (one for the data, one for business, one for the service facade, one for an enterp ...Show All

• Andy Blum "Unique ID" server for multi-server app

  I'm building an ASP.NET app that I hope will scale to need multiple servers. For certain objects, I'd like to provide users with an "External ID". This would be either a user entered or randomly generated string, like "Fred's Data" or "q1g52xTK". This external ID would be associated with a GUID, and would allow the user to get at the object without having to know the GUID (such as at log-in). (They will also be a ...Show All

• Ionela 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

• creatorx2000 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

• Vasile 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

• cajinamaster TechEd 06

  The Architecture Strategy Team is holding the first ever Iron Architect contest at TechEd. Anyone attending TechEd US is welcome to apply. Contest question and details can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/ironarchitect/ ...Show All

• Aaron Hallberg SOA and .NET 2.0

  I am planning to do a technology update to my folks on the benefits of SOA, business with .Net 2.0 platform... I was wondering if you guys had done something like this before Appreciate your time... Thanks, Cheers! Creaturita, I'd suggest you begin your research with WCF and BizTalk. I haven't done any, but if i would have to do one i would study WSE 3.0. I have read somewhere that you ha ...Show All

• patri_ar Architecture question - how to store local copies of data on a server

  My work order application needs to do the following: 1) User has a windows forms client on their laptop, PC, or even mobile client. 2) When they have an active connection, they can connect to a web service to view new tasks, mark the ones they want to download to their local machine, then disconnect. 3) They can then edit their local copies of these tasks, then re-synch with the server when they next have a connection. Reason being, ...Show All