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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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.

Hajo, I know about addin from Thinkcenture but I'm wondering if you use other tools, addins, etc.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Hi, I'm trying to find some data that shows different benchmarks on the capacity and scalability of IIS on different versions of .NET and Operating Systems (Win2k, Win2k3, Win2k3 Server). Any idea where I can find this type of data? In particular I'm interested in hardware requirements, ...

Hello, I work on a project where clients access to a database and a files storage system (NTFS). On a LAN, all works fine but we would like to allow user to access those data from Internet. My question is: how our Web server can safely access to the file storage? Is it acceptable to access ...

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 ...

Hello, I'm an ex Java developer now working for a young and fairly naive company that is largely .NET oriented. I, and really the company as a whole, feel very much "thrown into the thick of things" and I'm positive there are better methods and techniques to accomplish my goals. I ...

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 ...

Is it possible to make more than one Issueing CA in one domain? I have one Issueing RootCA (test enviroment) end i want add more than one sub-ca's in the same domain to issue the same kind of certificates. The other CA's are connected with e WAN connection to the Issueing RootCA. The RootCA ...

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 ...

Hi all, I know the immediate answer is NO ! Yea, Yea, I know that if I want my class to be able to inherit from serviced component and be able to work well in com+ transaction I'll need to be able to instanciate an object. But in my case, I have a business workflow layer, which handles the ...

Hi all, This time I want you opinion on the following scenario: I have a service which returns info about an entity. Some of the information is based on lookup values (lookup=code/decode, such as "male/female", "small/medium/large" etc.) My options to output these values ...

I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right. I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the ...

Hi all, My situation is as follows: I have a service that receives a list of some entity in order to do some kind of operation on each of the entities in the list: 1. The operation is the same for each of the entities (updates one of the fields) 2. There is a logical test to perform on each ...

Please inform me if there is a better forum for this question. We have a Windows Service that posts events to the event log. When looking at these events in the Windows Event Viewer, a URL labeled "For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp" ...

<a title=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx" href=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx"> http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx</a> Would love to hear your comments... Thanks

We are in the design phase of a Product XXX(Web Application ), the Product has several modules (M1.M2,M3....) and each module will bederived 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 ...

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 ...

Would love to hear your comments <a title=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx" href=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx"> http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/02/02/82301.aspx</a>

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.</P> What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application?</P> --SY</P>

I have been trying to get excited about Windows Workflow Foundation from an architectural perspective but after having a conversation with one of my colleagues I sort of started to question the value of such a framework. Here's why....1. Does Windows Workflow run the risk of allowing line of ...

This question has been plauquing me for a while. When attempting to deliver to an enterprise service-oriented strategy is it better to do bottom up governance or top down? Here's what I mean by this.1. With bottom up design governance you work to have any line of business application deliver ...

The 3rd tenet of SOA, according to MS, states that "Services Share Schema and Contract".When I use the XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute in my shema, I actually say "when you call me, you will get in response one of the following possible types and you should check yourself the ...

We are in the design phase of a Product XXX(Web Application ), the Product has several modules (M1.M2,M3....) and each module will bederived 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 ...

<a title=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx" href=" http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx"> http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx</a> Would love to hear your comments... Thanks

In this blog I point to 2 articles and an introduction paper on the essUP coming out in the near future.I was wondering if anyone has any other info on it, such as possible beta releases, other articles, or simply information the MS guys monitoring this forum may have from working on the inside ...

I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications.My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htmIf you go, please take the poll to the right. I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you think? In my experience... Now “Software Factory” is the “Buzzword”To the architect real challenge to make “Platform Independent” auto generated coding tools which will be domain specific. How extent is this possible? Here things are required, strong domain knowledge along with ...

Is that Smart Client architecture can be used only for Windows forms (Windows Application)?Can it be used for Web application?If so can you suggest article for the same, as far as my research in msdn I was able to find smart client only for windows form.I need an article on implementing smart ...

Hi,I have a few open queries in my mind on architectural styles.I have just put them as questions below. Can someone advise ?1. What is an Architectural Style ? and What purpose does it solve ?2. When do we use architectural styles ? (i.e at what phase of a project)3. What are the different ...

My question relates to best practices in database design for SOA. Specifically I am looking for a guideline that will help me maximize performance and guarantee uniqueness in and SOA environment.Is it generally advisable to use surrogate keys in your tables if you are designing the data store ...

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 ...

Hi All,I'm a overseeing a project using asp.net tech uppfront for data capture and vb.net client where the data is manually manipluated and then returned SQL Server and back to the Asp.net client.Have any of you heard of an instance where you have used IIS to cache to relieve performance ...

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, ...

<span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black">Architecture is a work combining - "Thought Process" or "Practice" or "Pattern".</span> <span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black">What quality does it require?</span> </span>