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• Wout architecture for of an organization front office

  Hello, I have to conceive an architecture for of an organization front office : Portal +Independent Business Modules : -Portal -> Share Point 2007 -Seperated Modules wich should communicate between them and between an ERP (legacy system)-> For this, I will shoose, ASP.NET 2.0 (GUI), WWF(Business Process), WCF(interoperability with enhanced web services) and Biztalk server(deployed as ESB) =>Is my choice of technology relevant to the system needs thanks in advance Your choice of technolgy should have more of WCF and less of WWF Interoperability of WCF with legacy system with the user of enterprise or interop is at sometime very cucumbersome to implement. Plus WWF is goi ...Show All

• Aspiff120 Documenting a web site

  I have been given the assignment of documenting the entire site's navigation. They also want to see how and for what reason we would go to each page. I.e.., I need to add an event to an order. So I need to somehow display the interactions of each page to go through a process. This could entail several pages. So I thought that I could do Use Cases for this. My thinking was with Use Cases and Sequence Diagrams I could show the thought patterns to get from point A to point B. My boss tells me today they want to the site map(pages) and then something else to dictate different scenarios. My company is not very good at reading UML. In fact one other person bought UML in 24 hours. I however have read the entire OMG specifications, ...Show All

• gogrizzlies MVC VS N-Tiers

  I am studying Framework and Pattern. I am a bit confused between MVC and N-Tiers so I want to hear from you experts. When I have, say, a 3-tier application, can I apply also the MVC It seem to me that they actually telling similar things but looking from different views. Does the Clients-Side Business Object(CSBO) the same as the Model in MVC Are the Controllers in MVC the listeners/handlers of CSBO If I raise events from the Model, I can actually not only control/reflect from the View(say, I can listen from the data tier also), isn't it Thank you for all comment. Hi Kennon,    The answer to your question "When I have, say, a 3-tier application, can I apply also the MVC " is YES    A 3-tier applic ...Show All

• Tom Frey Associate custom list form with a list

  Hi, I've followed the instructions at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191111033.aspx to create a custom list form, but when it comes to associating it with a page, it fails. In the list properties, I click Supporting Files, and browse to the new page to use, and click OK to close the List Properties dialog box. If I open the List Properties dialog box again, it does not show my changed form. Nor does it show it if I actually browse to the site, and create a new list item. Any ideas Thanks Martin Hi Martin, Make sure that you have selected the correct "Content type specific forms" in the tab Supporting Files. By default, it usually comes with "Fol ...Show All

• cvajre Search Pages and Results Pages

  Hi everybody, i want to creat my own search settings to search for example documents by project. Project is a column of my content type 'Project Document'. Can i do this with create search and results pages How can i do it Have you sources or links where i can find information about thirs customization. Thanks :) take a look at the Plan Search section of the Planning and Architecture guide at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/b28ba53d-a3e8-440f-9fcb-f592d858894a1033.mspx mfr=true it will get you started. Hi, Basically, you can create search scopes to do that. ...Show All

• Analyst Chad Supplying a default value of a parameter for a class that can't be instantiated directly.

  I'm calling a webservice method that requires an XmlElement as a parameter. For example: public void MyMethod(XmlElement MyXmlElement); XmlElement objects can't be instantiated directly. In code this is no problem as I can grab the XmlElement from my XmlDocument, however I don't see a way to do this using the BDC. Any help would be greatly appreciated. COmplex Paramenter types would be possible but you have to be crafty in your XML for the BDC... I played with it a bit and got some to work but never quite as good as I would like. Typically in scenario's like this, I build a facade web service that has the methods that I want to call and the simple input types, this service then marshal ...Show All

• Anonymous X _layout pages and masterpage

  Hi All, I'm a bit confused here. Is it true that modifying the application.master (which I don't want to do) is the only way to change the masterpage for the _layout pages in Sharepoint 2007 In fact changing all the files themselves is not an option either because it's not supported I was told. So how's the correct procedure to change the _layout pages from your sitecollection Fred hey andy, thx! i've also seen this post, this would work... what about just to modify the default theme until now i couldn't find the default theme.. ghosted and unghosted.. do you know where to find it if i don't find another solution, i have to do it the way Heather Solomon mentioned. Thx to her.. ...Show All

• Yurec design pattern question - proxy

  Hello, I'm implementing a software module and hesitating about the appropriate design. The client needs to perform operations for an componenet which is divided to few parts in the memory. However the client treats the componenet as one contiguous. My design includes a "Manager" which has an interface for the client and handles all operations for this components. The "Manager" knows when it is asked to read/write the appropriate part of the memory. It hides the fact that the component is divided to few parts in the memory space. I wonder if this is called a proxy, facade or a bridge Or maybe other pattern I think it is a proxy but not sure since there few real objects (i.e. subjects) and not only one. In cas ...Show All

• lamont_23 Stored Procedure Approach for developing Applications: An Architecture Viewpoint

  Hi, I have a designed a smart client application which talks to WCF Services --> BL--> DAL and finally the database. Since I know that I would using only SQL Server for this application, I am of the opinion for going in for Stored Procedures(for its obivious benefits) and having transactions being handled at Business layer using System.Transactions. My Lead Architect is against the idea of using Stored Procs. His argument is that with SP approach it would be a question of getting the right transcation boundaries and also ensuring that the messaging and the transction are in a single distributed XA transaction. He says that these things are best achieved through individual statements and not in SP since SP's have their own txns. But ...Show All

• kkennedy1008 Shared documents in Sharepoint Services

  Hi. I am currently testing various solutions for central document management and revision control for our business. Anyways, I have installed Sharepoint Services, configured it, customized, etc on a test server of mine. One of the most important tools we want to use is the "shared documents" one. Now it appears that you have to "upload" every file/folder that you want. From what it looks like, it manages these documents, once upload, through the sql server database. Now we currently have a network drive along with a NAS that has almost a terrabyte of data. Uploading additional "copies" of these documents into the "shared documents" tool seems to be a waste of space. My question is: Can I just select ...Show All

• Ljhopkins Sharepoint design Question

  Hi, We are going to implement Sharepoint 2007. Over the point we are thinking about having 2 Sharepoint 2007 server. One for intranet and internal stuff and the other for the website and extranet. My question is how much flexible sharepoint 2007 is in terms of design and customization. Can we do asp.net programming and AJAX with it or is that functionality disabled. I might sound a bit stupid but the last time I checked Sharepoint 2003 with asp and i was trying to use Includes, it didn't work. Also since sharepoint 2007 have great content management, would it be a good idea to use it for websites as we might have to develop about 3-4 websites. Last but not the least Can we change the design and give the main sites the feel like any ...Show All

• karthnar database watcher ... need suggestions !!

  Hi all, i'm trying to develope a windows service which will listen on a database table (Oracle database) , when a record updated ,the service will store it on another database . (Sql Server database) the question is what is the best methodology to detect database update my idea is to run a query periodically and check the update is anyone have a better solution thanks. i need to fetch only the updated record which matches a certain criteria ! Hi Ollie , i agree with you on this solution if the source database is sql server but in my case the source database is Oracle .. .!! I also think that using a trigger would be the best idea. you can always check the database for changes every certai ...Show All

• Bondforever adhoc cube browsing

  We have built a MOSS2007 extranet for one of our customers. We would like to allow our customer to browse SSAS2005 data to do real adhoc analysis. I was hoping that we could use the local excel 2007 installation to connect to the cube by using a data connection published on the data connection library. Unfortunately this does not work. Simply publishing excel workbooks is not sufficient, because you cannot drag and drop dimensions and measures. If anybody has a solution for this or tips for a workaround, please let me know... Thanks in advance Joos How did you get this to work Not a cheap option but have you considered Proclarity I agree putting the ...Show All

• Chris An Any good Ntier real world (architecture)examples available for download?

  Hi all, Everybody talks about designing a good architecture Talking between tiers in stateless manner avoid chatty objects use interfaces Use factory patterns etc etccc But no one has published or uploaded some generic examples of different architectures so that you can see how things really work.(A complete solution)with different projects in it. Just tired of reading theory and not seeing any examples. Am I wrong Could anybody point me in the right direction or do i have to reinvent the wheel If I have to it will probably be a square one Thanks and apologies for moaning.   Well, you never stated in your original post you wanted something free of charge, however, ...Show All

• GTH WSS 3.0 - Reporting Services Document Map High CPU Usage

  I recently installed WSS 3.0 (Dec. CTP), plus SQL Server 2005 SP2, and finally the Sharepoint RS Addins. Everything is running fine with the exception of two items: 1) I cannot Connect a Report Viewer Webpart to a Report Explorer Webpart (native mode - I have not configured Sharepoint Integrated Mode, because I wanted to keep Report Explorer/Report Viewer as I investigate the capabilities). It generates an error when I connect the Report Viewer to the Report Explorer. This was a nice feature previously - I hope the production release still provides this capability. 2) When I run an RS report that contains a document map, the CPU peaks at 100% - with iexplorer taking 96% of the CPU for an extended period of time, and each time I cl ...Show All