Architecture

Goal Management – Goal partitioning for Inception phase

Goal Management in iterative development process is a multi step process. Starting from partitioning the goals into phases and then from phases to iterations is a critical process. Goal partitioning into phases: The phases are Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition. Now how to partition the goals of the project into these phases? Let discuss it from phase to phase: 1. Goal partitioning for Inception phase Inception is a phase in which the team basically identifies the requirement for the system. This is the phase in which the feasibility of the project comes up. It gives insight to the complexity of

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Architecture

Enabling mobility for enterprise application

Almost all enterprises have a physical boundary and some tangible shape for its service boundary. The enterprise do all the talkings with the market/consumers/customers staying within its peripheri. Only few enterprises like mobile or wireless phone has been able to assume the shape of an amoeba – known well for being able to take almost any shape. All this is possible because of the capability of this wireless technology. So the mobile or wireless technology is now has started giving food for thought to the enterprise technology pundits to evolve different techniques to give dynamism (or so called amoebeic boundary)

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Uncategorized

JS Calculator

I have just created a calculator that can be invoked in a page. Currently, the key combination for invoking the calculator is the Ctrl Windows key. This shows and hides the calculator. The calculator has a text area and the user can type in an arithmetic (Validation is pending for non arithmetic keys) expression and on enter key, the same is evaluated. Here is the code ============================= <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> document.onkeyup = KeyCheck; var calcVisible = false; function KeyCheck(e) { var KeyID = (window.event) ? event.keyCode : e.keyCode; switch(KeyID) { case 91: if (!calcVisible) ShowCalc('CalcPlace') else HideCalc('CalcPlace'); break; default:

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Architecture

A-Z Guide to Being an Architect

Eh! There is something interesting to read and learn. We here also are in the way of architecting in a big way already. I am reproducing this post from MSDN.   A-Z Guide to Being an Architect A Is for Advocate “I think you’ll find that you really don’t want to do it like that.” Architects have to explain and advise on technical issues to business stakeholders. They also have to be able to advise delivery teams on how to build. This advice is the currency of an architect; invested wisely, it will return goodwill and trust. The architect is

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ASP.NET

Using TreeView inside AJAX UpdatePanel

Microsoft does not support TreeView Control inside AJAX:UpdatePanel. So there are lots of issues if one need to do the same. One of my teams needed to use the TreeView inside the UpdatePanel. The core of the application is around some hierarchical documentation. As the user interaction with the system mostly through this hierarchical data, TreeView with check boxes is the most obvious selection. However, the pain began as the development progressed and changes in requirements started pouring in. One option was for clientside population of treeview. But some dynamic changes happening to the underlying hierarchical data (by concurrent users),

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ASP.NET

TreeView inside UpdatePanel issue – postbacks on check and uncheck of the node’s Checkbox

Problem: In ASP.NET TreeView control, user wish to select one or many treenodes and wish to have options for further working depending upon the selection. The selection is done using a checkbox. On checking, the server side code need to know what has been checked and provides further options for the same. The checkbox check/uncheck does not fire a postback. Though we tried to imitate the same using javascript, the page gets refreshed. We used AJAX and put the TreeView control inside an UpdatePanel Findings: Microsoft does not support this. An issue/request for the feature was put on Microsoft feedback

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ASP.NET

Version Conflict of .NET Framework in IIS

Another point to share. Of course I delayed the publishing. While I was migrating the YAFNET forum from my machine (WinXP with SQL Server 2005 Express), to a machine with Win2K3 and SQL Server 2000, I faced another issue. The first issue was of migrating SQL Server 2005 Express database to SQL Server 2000 database. The next issue is of conflict of versions of .NET in IIS. The target machine was hosting few web applications developed on .NET 1.1 and was running fine. I created a site for the YAFNET application and in the properties, set the .NET version as

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ASP.NET

Moving SQL Server 2005 Express databases to SQL Server 2000

Beyond general concept of upgrading, I faced a challenge of downgrade. I needed to migrate a database in SQL Server 2005 Express edition to SQL Server 2000 standard edition. I thought of how to do the same. Time permitted was just few hours.   I scratched on my head and thought of possible ways:  1. Detach from 2005 and attach in SQL 2000: Can not be done. It is not allowed, even if you set the compatibility level of the database to SQL server 2000. This just sets the way how sql queries are parsed and processed.  2. Import from

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Guidelines

How choice of Data Structures and Algorithms affect Performance

  The main data structure issues that you need to consider are as under: Table 1 Issues Implications Choosing a collection without evaluating your needs (size, adding, deleting, updating) Reduced efficiency; overly complex code. Using the wrong collection for a given task Reduced efficiency; overly complex code. Excessive type conversion Passing value type to reference type causing boxing and unboxing overhead, causing performance hit. Inefficient lookups Complete scan of all the content in the data structure, resulting in slow performance. Not measuring the cost of your data structures or algorithms in your actual scenarios Undetected bottlenecks due to inefficient code,

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Architecture / ASP.NET

State Management Best Practices

  The following table highlights the main state management issues:   State Management Issues Implications Stateful components Holds server resources and can cause server affinity, which reduces scalability options. Use of an in-memory state store Limits scalability due to server affinity. Storing state in the database or server when the client is a better choice Increased server resource utilization; limited server scalability. Storing state on the server when a database is a better choice In-process and local state stored on the Web server limits the ability of the Web application to run in a Web farm. Large amounts of state

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