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• Eeraj BPEL, XPDL and BPMN

  "BPEL is a standard which supports webservices and system to system applications workflow. For more of a human workflow, XPDL promoted by WFMC is the best." "BPMN is for modelling and supports both XPDL and BPEL. Simple BPEL based modelling tools for BPMS systems lacks a lot compared to BPMN based systems" Please provide me with your comments on the above statements. Also that, what standards are been followed in WF. Regards Hi Nagy, Just a quick reply to one of your queries. Ascentn BPM do support XPDL. regards I was wondering if anyone has made progress with the development of a tool to convert a workflow design from XPDL to X ...Show All

• Marek Istvanek Stored procedure vs standard query

  hi, I am in process of evaluating that for simple CRUD operations(select,update,delete,insert), should we use stored procedures or should we fire queries directly from DAL for performance enhancement leaving aside the fact the stored procedure pproach will mix the data access and business logic . If somebody could provide any microsoft URL link giving clearcut recommendation on the same,it would be of great help to me. Regards Why Consider Stored Procedures The first time the stored procedure is run, it gets compiled. This produces an execution plan—essentially a record of the steps that MicrosoftR SQL Server must take to get the results specified by the T-SQL in the stored procedure. Th ...Show All

• Lakshmi N need ideas in Web application architecture

  hi everyone, I got a big problem in web desiging. I start my design with the database,coding design,and implementation. after completing all those things there is always a change in the database.so i need to change my code from top level hirarchy till the end.it increases my overall timing in the coding and redesiging.change in db is reflected in the logic results in overall change of the code. is there any architectural design which directly maps my webform fields with the database table and colums. i need to change only the configration files alone instead of the code. you can take a simple example medical record maintance. which holds the details of patients,doctor etc.At one point time the entire database schema chang ...Show All

• Pradeep Gupta Publish restores sites...

  Hi, Please I need help for this issue.. The thing is I did a new installation of WSS 3.0 , and I wanted to publish and old site I had. I have a backup of the wss_content database of the old site. So after creating a new application, I made a new site. Then I went to Central administration's option Content Databases and removed the content database of the new site. Then with the command promt, I did "stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://mysite -databasename wss_backup_content" Once I did this, the content databases are in the application, I can see there is a site, and if I go to the site collection list, I can see my site. However, when I try to browse the site's adress i get 404 Not found. Is there something else I have to do .. ...Show All

• etcheverrjc Storing Session State

  We have been using SQL Server to store session state for a while. Now we are growing and looking for more scalable alternatives. It looks like there are three products on the market: ScaleOut, Ncache and StateMirror. Just wondering if anyone had any experience with any of these beasts. I'l accept that using IP broadcast to replicate state to every server gives you fault tollerance and scaleout with only the cost of a copy of the state on every server and some fairly high network and disk IO overhead. Broadcast is by nature unreliable so I assume either your application or the state server has to deal with session state being missing or corrupt on any given server. I'm a database person so I have an ave ...Show All

• tempgp use of snk file

  Hello everybody, This is somewhat layman's query. i have read about snk files to be included in the assembly to sign it and protect it from unknown people for which it is not meant for. I don't understand that how can we protect an assembly from an snk when we pack that in the assembly itself. Can somebody please t ake out some time and explain what exactly is the purpose of snk file and how exactly it serves that purpose. Also why do we need a Assemblydelaysign property in assemblyinfo.cs file. Thanks for your help rajiv The SNK file is not embedded in the assembly. It's only used when you sign it. The public key is written to the assembly so the signing can be verified, but the pri ...Show All

• PiGuy Stored procedure vs standard query

  hi, I am in process of evaluating that for simple CRUD operations(select,update,delete,insert), should we use stored procedures or should we fire queries directly from DAL for performance enhancement leaving aside the fact the stored procedure pproach will mix the data access and business logic . If somebody could provide any microsoft URL link giving clearcut recommendation on the same,it would be of great help to me. Regards "14. Enhance security by minimizing some forms of attack" Expanding on this you can give a database user access to an SP and prevent them from executing direct "select" statements against a table. This is fine grain access control which will ...Show All

• D W Impact on performance while using session service

  I am working on a comparison of performance when directly accessing a service S1 and when going through session. To directly access the service S1, I created a proxy and ran a method of the service. To access the service through session service, created the required session and then sent the message to Session service to route to the required service S1.(The session creation time is not considered in total time taken) The results I obtained indicates that the processing through session service takes approx. 5-7 times the time taken while accessing the service directly. I have made all the changes as specified in the CSF Documentation for performance improvements. Are there any others things which can be considered to improve ...Show All

• Princila Security Trimming Bug ? WSS3.0

  I have a strange one that I noticed today and thought someone might have seen it, have an answer, etc. We have a WSS3.0 Site Collection that we are using for the IT department at my client site to collaborate (I'm working on getting MOSS but for now, they are getting their feet wet with WSS) I created a site under the root site of the site collection (Home > Secure Site) and removed permissions for everyone except a few folks. This worked fine and all users except those few do not have the menu item displayed to them. Great. What I noticed is, if another user is the Site Owner of a sub site (Home > Another Site) then when they are on the site that they are an owner of, they see the link in the menu bar for the Secure Site. G ...Show All

• BitShift generating classes from UML

  Hi, Sometime back ,i read somewhere that newer version of vs.net gives the functionality of making classes from uml diagrams(like class diagrams), but i have not encountered this kind of facililty in the vs.net as per now. Can you people please confirm on this. Also if there is any other tool available to do this for creating classes,interfaces etc in c#, please let me know. Regards You're right, Arnon, VS diagrams has two priorities: To document a .NET application (more than any other kind of application) To partially generate / validate application components through class designer diagrams or DSI-enabled diagrams (more about that at http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/de ...Show All

• Beej80 MMC 3.0, Which View class for the snap-in start page

  I'm reading the on-line MSDN pages on Constructing Snap-ins. In the Snap-in Start pages topic the help goes into all kinds of gory details on Expanded Section Headers and the like and the spacing between graphical elements -- but not a hint AT ALL on which of the views to use to create the suggested start page. I can't believe that it's the HTMLView page, but with all the roll overs and such it sure looks like it... If you look at the sample files provided with the SDK (usually under \Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Samples\SysMgmt\MMC3.0) in there are a list of samples you can use for constructing your snap-in. There is no suggested start page as you can use any of the samples to assist yo ...Show All

• flash.tato How to call HelloWorld service with parameters ?

  Hi, we are trying to extend the HelloWorld sample. The webservice currently has one function HelloWorld, which returns back a string value. But, what if we modify this HelloWorld service, to accept some parameters also, as below: [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld ( string parameter ) { return parameter; } while making a call, we would write < Route > < Criteria > (ACTION EQ 'http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld') </ Criteria > < Destination > HelloWorldParticipant[http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld parameter="Hello World"] </ Destination > </ Route > But this does not work. Any idea on how to call webservice from ...Show All

• ghost23 Simple question; How to fire button click event?

  Hi, I am creating a simple web part that is a form with 7 textboxes and a button. I have created all the controls in CreateChildControls. That is I declare them outside and create them inside. Private txtProjectName as TextBox Private WithEvents btnSave as Button Protected Overrides Sub CreateChildControls() txtProjectName = new TextBox txtProjectName.Colums = 20 btnSave = new Button btnSave.Text = "Save" AddHandler btnSave.Click, AddressOf Me.btnSave_Click End Sub In the RenderWebPart method I use txtProjectName.RenderControl and btnSave.RenderControl. The form renders just fine but the btnSave_Click event doesn't seem to fire at all. Or at least I cannot set txtProjectName.Text = "T ...Show All

• GMan5309 Samples for Profile Manager

  Are there any samples available for Profile Manager Would be great if somebody can share. Thanks in advance Ruchi hi Senthil, Thanks for the update. I have one more query. I am not clear on who would be consume Profile Manager's output. As I understand we can store User Service mapping through Profile Manager. Some example scenarios for usage of Profile Manager would be helpful. Is it also possible to store User - Action mapping through Profile Manager Can we have something like User1 is able to access only Action1 of Service1. However USer2 can access Action1 and Action2 of the same service. Thanks Ruchi Ruchi - We are going to ship a sam ...Show All

• pvphuc Switching Web Applicaiton Ports

  Is it possible to switch the port of a web application after it is created For instance, I have a web app that is currently on port 82. I would like to switch it over to port 80 and add a host header in IIS to access that particular site. It seems that you just can't reconfigure IIS to do this. Sharepoint is still wants to see the web app on the port that it was created under. If it is not possible I suppose I can just take care of it with DNS. You should change the zone setting (i.e. address) for you webapp. Please go to Central Administration > Operations > Alternate Access Mappings > click the desired URL here. Here you have an option to change the address. Set it to whatever you want ...Show All