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Vince P Thin client and smart client
Continuing a thread I have posted somewhere around here (but could not find it), why do people usually say a smart client is able to work offline, and a thin client only works if connected to Internet. I consider this not true, since a thin client may be connected to a local Intranet. Then, it does not need to be in Internet, the connection will only need to be accessing the local BD inside the network, right Hi, The easiest way to think of a smart client is that it must always be available, even in a plane in the middle of the Pacific. For more information on thin versus smart clients consult the excellent Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=8EC600BD-A2E5-44AC- ...Show All
tonofit 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
Ishai Sagi[MOSS MVP] SPsite url not working in asp.net website
Hi, I have a problem, I am making a document view in an asp.net website, everything is working fine in Visual studio but when I try to use it in IIS on the same machine as the SPS I get an error Message: The Web application at URL could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application. Trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite..ctor(SPFarm farm, Uri requestUri, Boolean contextSite, SPUserToken userToken) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite..ctor(String requestUrl) at TasksEdit.ASPxGrid1_BeforeDeleteCommand(Object source, BeforeDeleteCommandEventArgs e) in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Dams\TasksEdit. ...Show All
JeffSkla SPD issues
Do any of you experience any problems using Sharepoint Designer While working with it. I have several issues. Dragging and dropping of content fields often fails the byline with the description of the content field doesn't match the actual content field check in check out sometimes fails saving the document sometimes fails. (some asp.net controls will not be saved)n Occasionally whem saving a new page layout SPD adds some <html> to the code. Which you have to remove Number 1 is definately the worst of them. I'm working on a page layout with lots of content fields. While there are a lot steps involved in creating and testing a page layout. You have to go trough the same process a million times. ...Show All
Noah Nadeau 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. Runs ok in the test environment (we are using StateMirror). It offers enough flexibility to easily bail out to SQL state storage if we find any problems. I assume the lack of comments indicates a lack of experience with these products. I would be interested in why you think you can't scale out SQL Server to meet your session state requirements. If SQL Server is handling it now, why would ...Show All
Bobbias Exception while installing ConnectedServicesFrameworkWellEnabledServiceEnterpriseTemplate
Hi folks, I am getting this exception while installing ConnectedServicesFrameworkWellEnabledServiceEnterpriseTemplate on my system. The message that I receive every time I try to install it is as follows "Unable to create an instance of the Microsoft.Csf.Adapter.WellEnabledServiceInstaller installer type-->Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.-->Object Reference not set to an instance of an object." Please sugest me what can be the reason for such an Exception. Any help would be appreciated. Amit Hi Amit, Can you specify the version info and operating system you are installing this -Raymond ...Show All
lord_o_jesus User registeration
Is there a way of making a username and password registration Example: Something like hotmail, where users register to get access to the site. Depends on which version of SharePoint you are using and, if using SharePoint 2007, which authentication provider you want to use. Basically there are ways of doing this using AD, SQL, or most any other authentication method but the process of doing so is really out of the scope of this newsgroup. ...Show All
createdbyx Multivalued bdc column - a dream?
I think (based on experiment and crawling through the internet) that this is impossible, but I will ask again - does anyone know of a way to make a BDC column multivalued I have a web service that allows people to seach for values from an external system, but they need to select more than one value. Please let me know if you know the solution. Thanks, Ishai Sagi Well, I do a lot of Enterprise Application Development with a service oriented midset. Knowing that, you could create a web service interface to retrieve the information and return it in a format that the BDC can consume (this is not near as intuitive as pulling from a SQL database but it is possible. This allwos you to use your AD Data in your apps without dire ...Show All
MattHei wss making the "sites" dir viewable searchable.
question about sharepoint "sites" So we have our sharepoints server url: sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/<subsite>/defaults.aspx There are a whole bunch of sub sites under: sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/ but when i point IE to sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/ I get a 404. so my question is this. my boss wants to be able to search all the subsites under <sites> dir in order to do that I am assuming I need to get this root Sites dir to be viewable or searchable Any ideas -wss newbie!! /sites/ is a managed path. Kind of like a virtual directory that allows you to create separate site collections underneath your portal. It is completely nor ...Show All
DavidThi808 Trigger different InfoPath forms in a single state workflow
I'm working in a project using sharepoint 2007, is the first time I use share point and in the project we need to trigger different infopath forms in a single state workflow depending in a initial condition and I want to know if it is posible or what can I do . I have been searching around and haven found nothig. The only thing I think know is to creat a single work flow for each form and make a master workflow to manage wich sub workflow is called. I'm not sure I understand the scenario from your description. If you mean that you wish to toggle which Infopath task form is displayed based on workflow properties, something like: if(myvariable == 1){show FormX}else{show FormY} You can do this at run- ...Show All
scdlewis How can you model this without a circular reference?
This might be in the wrong forum; sorry. I have a really tough data modeling problem, and I'm dumbfounded. I hope there's somebody with an idea. The problem really deals with aquatic habitat and vegetation, but I'll frame it in a more familiar context. It's a very common scenario. An employee works for a company. The employee is assigned to a project. --------- --------- -------- Company --> Project --> Client --------- --------- -------- | | | | ---------- ------------ Employee --> Consultant ---------- ------------ If you add this "consultant" relation between employee and project, isn't that a circular reference Doesn't that violate like 4th normal form or something Is ther ...Show All
Sharad Birajdar What is Architecture and Who are Architects?
In the software/IT industry the notions of "Architecture" or "Architects" are certainly not very well defined. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) supports four groups of enterprise architects -- business architects, data architects, application architects, and technology architects. Microsoft Certified Architect program so far designed for two certifications (solution architects and infrastructure architects), and one more certification, messaging architect, is coming soon. Different companies use titles such as "Chief Architect", "Industry Architect", "Integration Architect", etc. Job recruiters announce "Web Architect", "Software Architect", and "Dat ...Show All
kingmissel role based vs code based
I need to know general recommendation on whether we should should use role based or code based security for following type of .net applications: 1. Stand alone application 2.Enterprise application 3.B2C application 4.B2B application As per my understanding we should use Role based in last three cases.Code bases should be used in first and last case(if we are using webservcies). Your comments!! Regards Role based security goes well with intranet based applications as domain roles can be directly used. http://DotNetWithMe.blogspot.com vikas goyal Maybe I am misinterpreting your question, but do you mean role-based vs. code-access security (CAS) If so, they are different ...Show All
Eddie Garcia Windows service not running from installer
I am attempting to create a Windows Service by following the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbwlkwalkthroughcreatingwindowsserviceapplication.asp. I can build the service and run it from the debugger, but if I run it from the installer it does nothing. That is, the installer runs and reports it was installed sucessfully, but no messages are ever posted to the event log from my service. I even tried putting System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break() in my service and this never gets called. After installing my service, it appears in the Add or Remove Programs control panel, but does not appear in the list of services from Programs > Administrative Tools > Services. Also, I can install the service ...Show All
Daniel Hardjosuwito hosts file problem in multehomed environment
We have read the issues about /etc/hosts in the beta, but we think there are still problems around... We are testing sharepoint in a multihomed environment. The computer has two ips, 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.4. All Sharepoint application roots are bound to 192.168.0.3 on port 443 SSL using a wildcard certificate and host header. We have a running another application on 192.168.0.4 bound to port 443 SSL. It is working all fine, but if we let the search service to update the hosts file, all application roots set to 192.168.0.4. 192.168.0.4 ssp.domain.tld # Added by Office SharePoint Server Search (2/13/2007 11:33 PM). 192.168.0.4 users.domain.tld # Added by Office SharePoint Server Search (2/13/2007 11:33 PM). 192.168.0.4 portal.do ...Show All