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• ksona How to best implement an Orchestration Layer?

  So after carefully divding and separating our middle tier into lously-coupled services, the need for an orchestration layer that sits on top of all the services became apparent. I'm curious to see how others are implementing this orchestration layer: using something like Biztalk or another code layer that plays the role. BizTalk seems great at managing a business workflow, but what if this orchestration layer needs to aggregate data from multiple services Is BizTalk still the right tool Also want to know is since some service calls need the orchestration layer's help and some don't (calling the services directly), is there a pattern for this In other words, does the presentation layer ALWAYS call the orchestration layer even if some ...Show All

• Mitesh Shah923 Modifying Shared View of Public MySite - MOSS 2007

  This question was asked over in the wrong forum, but I figured that I'd beat Jens to reposting it. How can a farm administrator, or SSP administrator I suppose, modify the shared view of all users so that they are able to place new webparts across all MySite pages. I realize that there is a different between the MySite and the personal site. tia gg Give this a try, it looks like it could be what you're (we're) looking for. I haven't had a chance to look through it too much, but I'm looking for the same thing. I'm in a sharepoint class right now, and as soon as the lecture is over, I'm going to ask them about the same thing. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms916803.aspx ...Show All

• Schasta usb driver programming

  How can I program a usb driver for windows I am building my own electronic usb peripheral. Exepted the hardware aspect, how can i make windows to identify and handle the peripheral To create a driver you'll need to use the Windows DDK (Driver Development Kit). Last I remember, it contains two or three USB-related sample drivers you can use as a starting point. You might get better information on the microsoft.public.development.device_drivers newsgroup, btw. ...Show All

• Amzi! Custom Business Object creation and usage (with iBatis posssible)?

  Hi, I am new to iBatis.Net (and n-tier architecture in general) but would like to try, pls correct me if my understanding is wrong. Just wonder: 1. Since iBatis is an sql mapper, is it I still have to write the business objects myself If I have 50 tables in my app (assume each BO mapped to each table) and each table has about 70 fields, then I have to write all the classes and properties myself 2. How the business object classes should be look like If let say the business objects is used throughout my application, how to have things like deleted/original value, sorting, field max length, etc.. How will it work when bound to a datagrid Thanks. This might not be related to iBatis but ... ...Show All

• Zhou Yong When and Where to use Interface

  Hi All, I have a question here.Im bit confused of interface usage. Is it correct to have a separate separate interface for data objects I have around 10 business classes and have corresponding 10 data classes. Do we need to have a separate separate interfaces for each and every data class What is the correct norms of using interface Please clarify this. Thanks in advance. vinxter wrote: If there are too many interfaces , that means the application requirements are not understood properly or the application is varying so much(unstable). A design based on interfaces should be used by anyone who expects application requirements to not be understood properly (at least not at first) and to vary on a d ...Show All

• chance1166 csf 3.0 and biztalk service logic

  Hello, we are analyzing how to use oh sbe 3.0 with a biztalk service logic. In csf 2.5 we had a generic orchestration that we used for managing flows. In this orchestration we just have to write a business rule for our product and the maps for interacting with services. Is there something similar in csf 3.0 I just analyzed the bts service logic sample provided with csf, but in this example we have a different orchestration for each product. Is there something similar to 2.5 generic orchestration that we just have to configure and to import business rules. Our objective is to understand if is possible to import old business rules written in biztalk in csf 3.0 without writing an orchestration for each product. Thanks, Fabio ...Show All

• Mark Rendle separating data access - Busines logic and UI

  Hi friends, I have a question which I could not sort out. I checked the previous posts, I saw something relevant but not exactly what i need to know. I would like to create an  Logical N-Tier application which will include  DAL,  BLL   and  UI . I decided to use TypedDataset created by visual studio dataset designer as the Data access layer , but my question would still remain even if I used custom entity classes   . Now I am going to build a Business Logic layer  to provide the comunication between UI and DAL .  Lets assume that I have created the BLL and I use the following code in my UI.   Me .DataGridView1.DataSource = mBLL.GetObject that works very w ...Show All

• Tom_Liu Approach for modeling a class to import/export information

  In my web app (C#), we need to import/export an infinity of txt, xls and xml files. I would appreciate opinions or experiences on how would be an elegant (though easy way) to implement a class/componentto deal with this. BTW, the mechanism will be always the same, that is, import some information from a file (xml, txt or xls) and save it to the database (we are using an ORM), or read some information in DB and export it to a file (xml, txt or xls). Ok, here we go. Obviously, you need a DAL, to support for the different database access types. Depending on the level of your users, you may want to be able to configure preset databases (can be handy for yourself as well). On top of that you want a layer to handle any conversio ...Show All

• Charlotte Adam .Net Remoting load balancer needed

  Hi I am looking for the best way to design or purchase a loadbalancer component using .Net remoting. I have an architecture where several servers using .net remoting are used to sevice client apps. The loadbalancer should conduct the call of any client app to the least loaded server. What I have done so far is implementing a small loadbalancer component that keeps track of the available servers and their load. When a new client app wants to login and use the services offered by the servers, it should ask (transparently) the loadbalancer for the least loaded server. The loadbalancer will then return an ObjRef object which the client app will use to authenticate itself to the least loaded server and start using its services. If an ...Show All

• WillySnowMan where to store a unique ID?

  Hello,   I want to store a unique ID to use in a webpart. In a aspx page I would do it with a database field and a stored procedure, but with webparts i don't know. I want to give all my documents a unique ID, but not use the ID from sharepoint itself. A web part is a piece of code, the same as an aspx page. It does have storage, but it is not a database management system, and does not offer protection from concurrency or locks etc. Why not do the method that you allready know how to do (use a database field and a stored proc) to create these IDs as soon as a document is being put in a library, a unique ID is given to that document. That unique ID will show on the library as ...Show All

• ThE ViKinG Which protocol?

  I'm writing a solution for communication with a (.net) server. Now I'm thinking about a protocol I should use(Remoting, WebService, Sockets, ...). There are some things to consider: There may be many clients connecting to the server with that app (100000 ) I want this app doesn't have any problems with routers (firewall, NAT) Later, there will be a C++ client (not managed) I'm tending to webservices because of (2,3) but don't know if there will be performance issues... What would you do Konstantin Hi Konstantin, Remoting can work well over HTTP, so firewall issues will not help you decide here. I dont think that there is a straightforward way to directly call .NET remoting services from unmanaged C++ clie ...Show All

• Olyx Permission to a certain view

  Is there a way of restricting users to a certain view. Example: A list of employees contacts and salary information with two views. One for the HR Managers and one for the other is for the HR employees. I want to limit the group of HR Employees to the contact details but not salary information. Can you create two Audiences, one for HR Managers and one for HR Employees. then on the page in question create 2 instances of the web part used to view your list, set one to use the "open" view and set the audience in it to HR Managers and the other to the "restrictive" view and its audience to HR Employees. This assumes that the HR Employees will not have the ability to modify the web part's ...Show All

• Jared Y Need a bit of help getting My Site functionality to work

  Hi all. I have installed MOSS 2007 enterprise in a simple-server farm mode using a SQL 2005 backend. It appears I have everything else working except the My Site functionality. When I click on My Site, I get: Your personal site cannot be created because Self-Service Site Creation is not enabled. Contact your site administrator for more information. So then I enable Self-Service Site Creation for the web app that is hosting the My Site service and try again. This time I receive: There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information. I have the SSP set up so that the admin site is on one web app on a port other than 80, and the My Site is on a different web app at p ...Show All

• Ultrawhack Modify Navigation Error

  I am having trouble modifying the left navigation. This issue only happens to me when I copy or move a subsite to a new location. For some reason when I copy or move a site, the heading links on the new site still point to the old locations, while the links update properly. So I go to "Site Actions" -> "Site Settings" -> "Modify Navigation" and edit the URL of the heading myself. It then redirects me to an error page which tells me that the page was modified by another user. Then it duplicates the arguments (if there are any) at the end of the URL. So for instance, if I changed the URL to be "/helpdesk/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx BaseType=1" then it would be automatically updated to be "/helpde ...Show All

• CV. Issues With Delay Activity

  Has anybody had any success using the Delay activity within Visual Studio authored workflows Whenever I include a Delay activity in my workflows the workflow goes to sleep and never wakes up. If I listen for a Delay activity along with other events inside a Listen activity, I find that the other events (for example, OnTaskChanged) cause the workflow to be rehydrated as expected but the Delay activity does not. It doesn't seem to make any difference what the TimeoutDuration is set to or whether it's set statically in the designer or dynamically inside an InitiializeTimeoutDuration method. Does anyone have some sample code with Delay activities working correctly It's working for us. We had to install Win ...Show All