Recent update: 2008-3-21

DevLink 2007 - Nashville, TN

173 byte By EvanH at 2008-3-7
This event is going to rock! <a title=" http://evanhoff.com/archive/2007/07/07/29.aspx" href=" http://evanhoff.com/archive/2007/07/07/29.aspx">DevLink 2007</a>

Full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution?

130 byte By MichaelHerman-Parallelspace- at 2008-3-7
Any recommendations? ...for a full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution/tool/tool set? Thank you, Michael.

Databinding vs Multi-tier

1189 byte By Coach24 at 2008-3-7
I'm a bit confused - see if you can help me out. It seems like microsoft is really big on the multi-tiered approach to development(presentation, business, data), but now, with visual studio 2005, they're also really pushing the new and improved typed dataset for databinding. Am I wrong, or is ...

Going from Developer to Application Architect

202 byte By MSNetDeveloper at 2008-3-6
Hi, I am currently a developer with about 10yrs of experience. How can I go from developer to Application Architect? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Properties and UML class and sequence diagrams

268 byte By Mortsdeh at 2008-3-6
Hi, I am wondering what is customary to do with properties in UML class diagrams? Should they be in the method section? And if usage of properties are included in sequence diagrams. They are not actually methodcalls, but similar. Best, /M

Lazy linking pattern

903 byte By RchiTekt at 2008-3-6
Lazy loading is a familiar pattern for hydrating business objects but has the drawback of being expensive when many objects need to retrieved (through many SQL queries). In a situation where there are perhaps 20 classes of object each with only 5 to 100 instances of each class, it may make ...

Going from Developer to Application Architect

196 byte By MSNetDeveloper at 2008-3-5
Hi, I am currently a developer with about 10yrs of experience. How can I go from developer to Application Architect? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

User Interface Oriented Application Development

929 byte By BabakFarahani at 2008-3-5
Hi all, my name is Babak K. Farahani, who was thinking about User Interface Oriented Application Development concept for just 15 years! Three years ago after lots of different implementation I decided to develop the first application that could generate applications based on the UIOAD concept. ...

workflow engine and rule engine performance

172 byte By BhaskarSharma at 2008-3-5
Please give me your criticakl comments on performance degradation issues arising out of usage ofworkflow and rule engine vis a vis increase in scalability and agility

Know more about Microsoft Tech Mela 2007

2898 byte By nevilledubash at 2008-3-3
What is Microsoft Tech Mela 2007?. Need to Know more about Microsoft Tech Mela 2007? Visit the Blog posts http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/2007/05/accenture-at-microsoft-tech-mela-2007.html http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/2007/05/microsoft-tech-mela-2007-formely-teched.html Accenture is ...

Business maps and UML business object model

1158 byte By Chuchu at 2008-3-3
Hiya, i was wondering if someone can help me. Im trying to learn aboutBusiness Maps and UML Business object modelling by reading my brother'sold lecture notes from university but there are some things about thediagramming i do not understand.i have a diragram that shows two tables(?) Program ...

Changing "Wake On Settings" Using VBScript

471 byte By StevenDixon at 2008-3-3
Hi All, I have several computers with Intel Pro/100 cards installed. These cards have defaulted the "Wake On Settings" to "OS Controlled" and I would like to change this to "Wake on Magic & Direct" I can do this manually but I need to do this with VBScript to ...

TechMela 2007, Mumbai , India

305 byte By VikasGoyal at 2008-3-1
Guys check out ... http://dotnetwithme.blogspot.com/2007/05/techmela-2007-mumbai-india.html regards, vikas ...

Visio reports

374 byte By StephanieWoodward at 2008-3-1
I am working on a site who are using Visio for portability of documentation to different sites. I have created a Conceptual Data Model and I feel any good modeller put descriptions on all of their Entities. I have used the UML Staic Structure template. I would like to know how to write a report ...

where and in what form business layer should be implemented

1102 byte By BhaskarSharma at 2008-3-1
I have to design 3 project whose specification are as follows: 1. Client server architecture , windows application , office administration site with book library in place.2. 3 layred web application , ecommmerce aplication with webservices in place for business layer implementation.3. 3 layered ...

MS Event in India?

300 byte By badriprasad at 2008-2-28
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black">Hi all,</span> I am working on .net platform and I am very much interested in learning SOA and I want to know whether Microsoft is conducting any events for Explaining/Discussing about SOA and its benefits in India Thank you in advance. ...

UML Tools for our company... VB.NET and Visual Studio.NET 2003

1026 byte By Mortsdeh at 2008-2-28
Hi, I am a newly employeed at a software development company. This company has not previously used UML for deveoping its applications. I would like to document our application using UML and since I know some UML, it is up to me to suggest an application to do this. We use VB.NET and Visual ...

Serviced component architecture issues (State management/ OOD).

3173 byte By OzJester at 2008-2-28
I've seen serviced components abused and misused due to inherent limitations in how COM operates and now I’m looking to architect a web based, OO, n-tier system and wish to avoid the same mistakes. In my system there are two architectural problems: Much of the data is common across ...

intelligent coast

7079 byte By ic@nitropix.com at 2008-2-27
Simposio Internacional Intelligent Coast “Turismo XXL, La Megalópolis Europea” 19 - 20 - 21 de Julio 2007 www.intelligentcoast.es Manuel Delanda, Michael Houellebecq, Scott Lash, Rem Koolhaas, Jeremy Rifkin, George Ritzer, Edward W. Soja, Jos Miguel Iribas, Carlos Ferrater, Raimon ...

Visio Modeling and Database/Column Notes

571 byte By SteveHittle at 2008-2-27
I am using Visio for Enterprise Architects that came with the latest release of Visual Studio 2005 and am designing a new database from scratch. I have commented all tables and columns but cannot find a way to pass those values into the database during creation. This is a vital component or any ...

business layer strategies

485 byte By BhaskarSharma at 2008-2-27
Hi All, I am doing research on the all the possible Business layer stratigies(it is be compiled Vs workflow and rule engine or any other idea?).I need to know what all strategies and technologies are there in dotnet to achieve this. If somebody can refer me a good book especially on this topic, ...

Microsoft Architect Insight Conference - UK EVENT

1763 byte By BenTaylor at 2008-2-26
I'm going to this one: Microsoft Architect Insight Conference The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Gwent: Monday 5th March - Tuesday 6th March 2007 This two-day conference will provide a unique opportunity for senior architects to meet, network and discuss industry-wide issues in order to ...

Class diagram for C#?

370 byte By tore- at 2008-2-26
Hello!Im currently developing a C# application. I have previous exp. with Java, and designing different diagrams and soforth. But, I have problems with how a class diagram should be created, since you dont have to use set/get methods for your variables.Any articles, examples or related ...

Deleting Hotmail Contacts

304 byte By Burger at 2008-2-26
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 ...

developers wanted.....

517 byte By mwiches at 2008-2-25
Developers(team players) wanted for the succesful deployment into the market, of the projects: 1.the future of search engineering, 2. the credit card zipper, 3. hand writer soft. All documentation available ,no matter the platform speciliased in,please contact in the soonest time , ...

Full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution?

130 byte By MichaelHerman-Parallelspace- at 2008-2-25
Any recommendations? ...for a full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution/tool/tool set? Thank you, Michael.

Business layer strategies

485 byte By BhaskarSharma at 2008-2-25
Hi All, I am doing research on the all the possible Business layer stratigies(it is be compiled Vs workflow and rule engine or any other idea?).I need to know what all strategies and technologies are there in dotnet to achieve this. If somebody can refer me a good book especially on this topic, ...

developers wanted.....

511 byte By mwiches at 2008-2-24
Developers(team players) wanted for the succesful deployment into the market, of the projects: 1.the future of search engineering, 2. the credit card zipper, 3. hand writer soft. All documentation available ,no matter the platform speciliased in,please contact in the soonest time , mwiche ...

Integration with Visual Studio 2005

120 byte By orent at 2008-2-24
Hi Is there integration between XDE and Visual Studio 2005 ? Where can I find a material about it ?

Business Layer Architecture

486 byte By BhaskarSharma at 2008-2-24
Hi All, I am doing research on the all the possible Business layer stratigies(it is be compiled Vs workflow and rule engine or any other idea?).I need to know what all strategies and technologies are there in dotnet to achieve this. If somebody can refer me a good book especially on this topic, ...

MS Event in India?

297 byte By badriprasad at 2008-2-23
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black">Hi all,</span> I am working on .net platform and I am very much interested in learning SOA and I want to know whether Microsoft is conducting any events for Explaining/Discussing about SOA and its benefits in India Thank you in advance.

Full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution?

130 byte By MichaelHerman-Parallelspace- at 2008-2-23
Any recommendations? ...for a full multi-tier ASP.NET code generation solution/tool/tool set? Thank you, Michael.

Are MS Architectural Sample Applications being updated (for .net 2.0) ?

217 byte By Guima at 2008-2-23
Do someone have any information about release date for .NET Architectural Sample Applications (Duwamish, Fitch and Mather, etc) updated for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 ? Thanks for any information.

Microsoft Architect Insight Conference - UK EVENT

1766 byte By BenTaylor at 2008-2-22
I'm going to this one:Microsoft Architect Insight ConferenceThe Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Gwent: Monday 5th March - Tuesday 6th March 2007This two-day conference will provide a unique opportunity for senior architects to meet, network and discuss industry-wide issues in order to share ...

hoe to prevent any program from starting inspite of we double clicking on it using the registry?

957 byte By questforknowledge at 2008-2-22
recently i had this trouble where memeory was being dumped every time the computer booted.on checking i realized an exe dump(0-k) being executed every time thecomputer booted after which obviously the memory got dumped onto thescreen following which the computer reboots.on checking msconfig the ...

Contract first - what tools do you recommend?

100 byte By PawelPabich at 2008-2-22
Hajo, I know about addin from Thinkcenture but I'm wondering if you use other tools, addins, etc.

Microsoft Architect Insight Conference - UK EVENT

1766 byte By BenTaylor at 2008-2-22
I'm going to this one:Microsoft Architect Insight ConferenceThe Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Gwent: Monday 5th March - Tuesday 6th March 2007This two-day conference will provide a unique opportunity for senior architects to meet, network and discuss industry-wide issues in order to share ...

Modeling for the Home Programmer

500 byte By jameyer at 2008-2-22
I am working on a couple of programs, but I have just started out. Nothing that I'm doing is overly complicated (I suspect) but I want to map it all out before/as I work on it. Right now, I am using a notebook and pencil, but I don't know if that is enough. It lets me work on the overall flow ...

designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

1009 byte By VikB at 2008-2-22
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 ...

IASA India Launch event

340 byte By VikasGoyal at 2008-2-21
IASA is getting launched in India on 12th Jan 2007 in Bangalore, India.The event is supported by Microsoft.Registration can be done through Microsoft India's site. http://DotNetWithMe.blogspot.comvikas ...

Object Modeling

503 byte By Sweeps78 at 2008-2-21
I'm a bit of a newbie in diagramming/modeling. I've never had to do it with my job(s), so please bare with me here:)Ok, I know UML is the standard for Class Models. However, what is the standard for modeling runtime Objects? Do I still use a Class Diagram to demonstrate the use of the ...

HELPPPPP!

872 byte By NewMan at 2008-2-21
Any help in resloving this design would be very much appreciated. Basically, A Server can have many apps or databases likewise an Application can be on one or more serveres. Server can be managed by one or more staff and applications and database can be managed by one or more staff and one ...

SoBI Presentation

1741 byte By RobGrigg at 2008-2-20
Hi, Sean Gordon and I will be presenting a session on Service oriented Business Intelligence (SoBI). It will be based around our recent article in the Microsoft Journal 6 ( http://www.architecturejournal.net/2006/issue6/Jour6SOBI/). We are very much looking forward to an open and interactive ...

Selecting the Right tool for UML

3046 byte By PareshGheewala at 2008-2-20
Hi all, I am in making a decision of selecting a UML toolfor better class design, sequential diagrams and so forth. with your all experience kindly suggest me which one would be better and more useful.(Visual Studio do provide UML tool but it is not stable currently. At the same time since it ...

Are interfaces for behavioral overloading only?

1391 byte By Mr.SOAPitStop at 2008-2-20
This question comes from the new approaches being suggested when designing services with WCF and even ASMX 2. The approach is one that uses interfaces (or abstract classes) to focus on the method signatures and avoid diving directly into implementation when desiging services. This looks like a ...

Financial Services Architect Forum

3201 byte By MohammadAkif at 2008-2-19
Hello,We held a Financial Services Architect forum in Canada recently where we disscussed a number of topics related to the financial industry, you can read a detailed 3 part report on the forum at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif , I am keen to know what architects working for the financial ...

I want to know some good website for software architecture.

79 byte By su at 2008-2-19
I want to know some good website for software architecture. thanks

WSE 3.0 cannot be used with the Compact Framework 2.0 on Mobile 5.0 devices

443 byte By TadAnderson at 2008-2-19
From an Architectural View, how are those of you Architecting Mobile Solutions, over coming this? Here is a blog that I have asked the MS CF team to make responses too, hopefully they do. I have one response at the time of this forum entry. ...

RTP, anything in raleigh/durham area

96 byte By BobbyBowden at 2008-2-18
Anyone know of any architecture seminars going on in the raleigh/durham area in the near future?

UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

2186 byte By TadAnderson at 2008-2-18
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 ...