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Showing a view from the Service.contracts project, how to avoid this

my dto's are located in the contracts project, layer between UI and Service I have an observable collection of thes objects loaded in a grid in my view. A checkbox is binded to a boolean value of the ...
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What are the reasons for rebuild and redeployment libraries?

It's difficult to understand the meaning of the question from the topic's name. Here is what I mean. I'm watching Uncle Bob's Clean Code Episodes. In many episodes where he is talking about SOLID ...
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3 Tier Application Architecture, logic and database

(Note: The examples are simplified) I've seperated my solution into 3 projects WebSite Business Logic Data Access Logic The Website has access to BL and DAL The BL has access to nothing The DAL ...
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How to implement two different web services running the same business logic?

We are developing a ReSTful HTTP API with Servicestack(.NET). Some of the API clients, which have a subset of the actions, demand a service which could be easily added with all the entities, like ...
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Alternatives to the repository pattern for encapsulating ORM logic?

I've just had to switch out an ORM and it was a relatively daunting task, because the query logic was leaking everywhere. If i'd ever had to develop a new application, my personal preference would be ...
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Storing Dynamic SQL in text files vs inline code

Our Architecture team is proposing a framework that would see our SQL queries moved from coded strings within our applications, into a file based system where we would invoke them with function calls. ...
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.Net search engine architecture and technology choice

I am in the process of designing a search engine for an asp.net site. The site currently uses Microsoft Indexing Server to index and search content which range from simple text files to MS documents ...
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Interaction of a GUI-based App and Windows Service

I am working on personal project that will be designed to help manage my media library, specifically recordings created by Windows Media Center. So I am going to have the following parts to this ...
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Architecture : am I doing things right?

I'm trying to use a '~classic' layered arch using .NET and Entity Framework. We are starting from a legacy database which is a little bit crappy: Inconsistent naming Unneeded views (view referencing ...
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Custom .NET apps and clustering

So for a clustered environment - how would this work with your apps? what about your own custom .NET apps? Would there be a special way to develop them? I know that you can say create a simple Hello ...
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Help identify the pattern for reacting on updates

There's an entity that gets updated from external sources. Update events are at random intervals. And the entity has to be processed once updated. Multiple updates may be multiplexed. In other words ...
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Should I create repositories with special functions like getStaffActive()?

I have seen lots of articles but none really help me. That is because I want to use dapper as a DAL. Should I create repositories with special functions? Like getStaffActive()? If I use repositories ...
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Designing a system with different business rules for different customers

My company is rewriting our proprietary business application. The current architecture is poorly done and inflexible. It is coded more procedural oriented as opposed to object oriented. It has become ...
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Why all classes in .NET globally inherits from Object class?

Its very interesting for me which advantages gives "global root class" approach for framework. In simple words what reasons resulted the .NET framework was designed to have one root object class with ...
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Designing a Content-Based ETL Process with .NET and SFDC

As my firm makes the transition to using SFDC as our main operational system, we've spun together a couple of SFDC portals where we can post customer-specific documents to be viewed at will. As such, ...
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How do I architect 2 plugins that share a common component?

I have an object that takes in data and spits out a transformed output, called IBaseItem. I also have two parsers, IParserA and IParserB. These parsers transform external data (in format dataA and ...
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Design Pattern for building a Budget

So I've looked at the Builder Pattern, Abstract Interfaces, other design patterns, etc. - and I think I'm over thinking the simplicity behind what I'm trying to do, so I'm asking you guys for some ...
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Need some critique on .NET/WCF SOA architecture plan

I am working on a refactoring of some services and would appreciate some critique on my general approach. I am working with three back-end data systems and need to expose an authenticated front-end ...
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Business Objects within a Data Access Layer

So I've been creating a data access layer via TDD and have approached somewhat of a concern. I'd rather not start down the wrong path, so I figured I'd ask you guys to see if my thoughts were in line ...
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S.O.L.I.D., avoiding anemic domains, dependency injection?

Although this could be a programming language agnostic question, I'm interested in answers targeting the .NET ecosystem. This is the scenario: suppose we need to develop a simple console application ...
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How to build a .Net app which runs on desktop and as a Windows Service

Ok, I hope this is not too much confusing (with my poor English). I want to build a small .Net 4.0 app which monitors several other applications on a Windows Server OR on a regular Windows PC. It will ...
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Architecture Question

I am writing a rules/eligibility Module. I have 2 sets of data, one is the customer data and the other is the customer products data. Customer data to Customer products data is one to many. Now I ...
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How do you keep SOA DRY?

In our organization, we've shifted to a more "service oriented architecture". To give an example, let's assume we need to retrieve a "Quote" object. This quote has a shipper, a consignee, phone ...
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LINQ vs Data Access Layer

I've taught myself always to handle any data access code in a completely separate 'layer' to my business logic and UI code. This has always been a very good architecture for me and any 'rules' or best ...
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Why should I use interfaces if the implementation will mostly stay the same? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are interfaces useful? In our company we have a service oriented architecture in our asp.net application. We use interfaces for every crap class. Its a huge ...
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Which platform to choose, Java or .NET? [duplicate]

I am working in a private bank, a leading mid size bank in local market. We are going to create our core banking solution. Existing solution has been developed on Java using IBM Visual Age 4.0. It is ...
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In .NET (Visual Studio), when do you create a new assembly?

I'm working on a Silverlight application. I've split it up in several assemblies: Domain Repositories (everything with persisting to the Sterling database) UI ... This is how I've learned it, but ...
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What do you call this pattern/technique?

Lately I've used this technique a few times, and I'm trying to figure out if it has a name, if it's one of the patterns, etc. In complicated situations where I might normally have a number of giant ...
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What open source C# projects exemplify separation of concerns and good solution structure?

I'm looking for something showing best practices in N-tier enterprise application design with focus on code re-use and scalability. Possibly using DDD or CQRS methodology. Don't really care about ...
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Static Methods in Business Layer to achieve data from DAL! Yes? No?

Some advice here, I've run into a system where the DAL contents of hundreds of sql command calls are split up on a class per table. There are also a Business layer which get it's data from this DAL, ...
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How is the “evented-io” in node.js any different from the windows event model

I'm wondering how the "evented-io" in node.js any different from the windows async IO model? Is the callback from node.js executed on a thread, if not, where is it run? I don't mean to question the ...
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The Next Step, from Senior Developer to Architect

A little background: Bachelor In Engineering, Master Degree in Comp Sci. Landed junior dev straight out of Uni. 2 years later, left for Senior Dev. Now planning next step... Platform: .NET, VB,C# ...