Design and Architecture

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I guess the cheeky reply is that Diamond Binding is avaliable now, and is mature, and leveraging Hibernate, which is also decades mature. Last I heard the Entity Framework was dropped from Orcas and was going to be released "out-of-band" sometime in the first half of 2008. EF, like a lot of ORM products tends to be very heavyweight and favours model-first development. It is a very complex product, however I think the key feature that everyone is interested in is LINQ to Entities. LINQ is not really EF specific. After the product becomes more mature, we will look at including LINQ support in Diamond Binding. Although we find that Expressions and HQL support cover most use cases sufficiently at the moment. DB is designed with simplicity in mind, and is geared towards keeping your business objects synchronised with the database schema, and handling everything in between for you. If the schema changes, its a one-click synchronisation. One aim is to stop developers getting bogged down in mapping, and just let them add business value to the application! Mark Churchill Director Dunn & Churchill

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Generally speaking an architect needs to be familiar with the most common ways to design information systems. On the "system" level, that means knowing the differences between desktop apps, client-server systems (including web applications), and distributed systems. On the application level it means defining the tiers and choosing the appropriate paradigm (e.g. service oriented or object oriented). It may also mean selecting technology - the term ".NET architect" is a bit odd imo, as one should normally choose a technology based on the desired architecture rather than the other way around. Nowadays an important consideration nearly everywhere is "interoperability", the ability to integrate with other systems, and I'd recommend that you study WCF if you don't already know it, as it is a very useful technology and easy to use with .NET.

The following T-Sql code will return the names of all the columns and their data types for a given table (in this example the table is titles from the pubs database). You can then use this to add controls at run time. SELECT c.name, t.name AS [Data Type] FROM sysobjects o INNER join syscolumns c ON c.id = o.id INNER join systypes t ON t.usertype = c.usertype WHERE o.name = 'titles' ORDER BY c.name -- Cheers, Gary http://www.garyshort.org

UML Distilled and Marin Fowler's web site. -- Cheers, Gary http://www.garyshort.org

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Tristan Rhodes wrote: Implement the control and the model together and simply serialize the controls contents. 2) Implement the control and model seperately and keep them syncrhonised. I would use the MVC pattern. Use the model and put the validation in there. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Write them a use case or two based on those high level functions and walk them through them to see if that fits what they have in mind. As for the UI, do simple sketch on paper, it's easier to lay down ideas and easier for them to write down notes and even let them draw sketches based on your designs. ( have a look at this blog : Flow|State[^] ) Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: using reflection? Is "reflection" referring to .NET platform? If so have you looked at the MSDN material for Updating Applications?

In my search for information on how to design validation, I did find this as well. The only problem is that I'm working with VS 2003. I don't think I can do the .NET 3.0 stuff with that. Can I? If I cannot do the 3.0 stuff, I'm torn, because it doesn't make any sense to re-work what's already been done with the Application Blocks. I'm already using the older application blocks for data access, logging, and exception logging.

Radegonda wrote: if you need more just let me know I don't need anything; whoever wants to find the check system for LU numbers will need more than two examples, I would guess some 20 or so. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] this months tips: - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

also the abstraction allows you to come up with new gateways. let's say you've got the window object on your machine in a SQL DB but you connect your laptop to head office. You can now pass the window SOAPServerWindowGatewayObject and the window is synchronized with Head Office. Equally that could be an IPartListPrintOutGateway etc I'm sure the potential list is almost limitless. Russ

You want to look at some code of how design patterns etc are applied. MSDN has some really cool sample applications. These applications are full n-tier design and gets stuck right into new concepts like software factories as well as best practices Try the Microsoft .NET PetShop 4.0 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa479070.aspx