I have worked on larger projects in the past, and am working independently on a new project without the aid of the base code I have used in the past. Is there a recommended open source framework that contains the basic essentials (error handling, security, general structure) that can help me jump-start the development process. I will be using VS2010/Sql Server 2008/Windows Server 2008.
View 2 Repliesrecently i've studied on ADO.NET's Entity Model Framework and say 'wow' as ORM is one of the fevourite pattern i practice..but suddenly i've come to an ambiguous situation when i'm going to start. i usually follow the following 3-tier architecture..
1. UI Layer
2. BLL - business logic layer
3. DAL - Data Access Layer
a. DTO / DAO
b. Gateway (contains the sql query/stored procedure and connection with DB)
now when i'm going to use the Entity Model Design,where the DBML/ .edmx File should be placed? Because many a times i'm using the DBML file as DTO because of the mapped objects.. in the same time, sometimes DBML ( .edmx file in .NET 4.0) contains CRUD methods and stored procedured method as well as methods with different selection operations,- which should be in Gateway. so where the .edmx file should be placed !?!! IN DTO namespace !? or in Gateway namespace!
moreover sometimes there is no need for the BLL which breaks the rules of inter-layer-communication (UI > BLL > DAL.Gateway)! what makes me confuse is, what should be the ideal n-tier architecture when i'll use the ADO.NET Entity Model Design Framework
I am in the process of redesigning our main product, a knowledge database system for clients to access clinical and specialist advice articles. There is a requirement to add "Social Networking" to this allowing users to connect and post remarks etc...
This is somewhat similar to the Facebook wall scenario - where Articles, Photos, Groups, Products, Events, ActivityFeed can all have comments. I am at a lose as to the database design I would need to implement this. All comments must allow for Moderation/Approval/Spam Reporting etc...
I originally thought a individual table for each Comments entity ex: ArticleComment, ProductComment would work as the comments themselves are not all directly related. Each table having the same exact columns. But this makes life abit awkward as then this creates a separation between something that for all purposes is the same i.e. They are all comments.
The other design idea was to have a single Comment table with an "arc" type relationship to related tables with FK references back to the source.
The other option was to have a single Comment table with an Object Type and XID but this breaks the rules of relation and does not all for referential integrity.
I am at a lose and don't know what to do. I have asked over at SQLCentral.com and all I have done is raised more questions than answers about what to do.
Design 1: This would require exact copies of this table for all the entities.
-- Photo Comments --
CREATE TABLE dbo.PhotoComment
(
CommentID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
PhotoID int NOT NULL,
Body ntext NOT NULL,
ReportedAsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_PhotoComment_ReportedAsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_PhotoComment_IsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsApproved bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_PhotoComment_IsApproved] DEFAULT (1),
CreatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
CreatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
UpdatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
UpdatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
IsDeleted bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_PhotoComment_IsDeleted] DEFAULT (0),
CONSTRAINT [PK_PhotoComment] PRIMARY KEY (CommentID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_PhotoComment_PhotoID] FOREIGN KEY (PhotoID) REFERENCES dbo.Photo(PhotoID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_PhotoComment_CreatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (CreatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId),
CONSTRAINT [FK_PhotoComment_UpdatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (UpdatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId)
)
Design 2: The "Arc" relationship
CREATE TABLE dbo.Comment
(
CommentID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
CommentType char(1) NOT NULL CHECK(CommentType IN ('A','I','E','G','U','P')),
Body ntext NOT NULL,
ReportedAsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_ReportedAsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsApproved bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsApproved] DEFAULT (1),
CreatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
CreatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
UpdatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
UpdatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
IsDeleted bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsDeleted] DEFAULT (0),
CONSTRAINT [PK_Comment] PRIMARY KEY (CommentID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_Comment_CreatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (CreatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId),
CONSTRAINT [FK_Comment_UpdatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (UpdatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId),
CONSTRAINT [UC_Comment_CommentID_CommentType] UNIQUE (CommentID, CommentType)
)
-- Article Comments --
CREATE TABLE dbo.ArticleComment
(
ArticleID int NOT NULL,
CommentID int NOT NULL,
CommentType char(1) CONSTRAINT [DF_ArticleComment_CommentType] DEFAULT 'A', CHECK (CommentType = 'A'),
CONSTRAINT [PK_ArticleComment] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (ArticleID, CommentID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_ArticleComment_ArticleID] FOREIGN KEY (ArticleID) REFERENCES dbo.Article(ArticleID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_ArticleComment_CommentID] FOREIGN KEY (CommentID) REFERENCES dbo.Comment(CommentID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_ArticleComment_CommentID_CommentType] FOREIGN KEY (CommentID, CommentType) REFERENCES dbo.Comment(CommentID, CommentType)
)
Design 3: The one that breaks the rules
CREATE TABLE dbo.Comment
(
CommentID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
ObjectType char(1) NOT NULL, /* A = Article, P = Photo etc... */
XID int NOT NULL, /* Would be the ID of the main entity being queried. */
Body ntext NOT NULL,
ReportedAsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_ReportedAsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsSpam bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsSpam] DEFAULT (0),
IsApproved bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsApproved] DEFAULT (1),
CreatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
CreatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
UpdatedDate datetime NOT NULL,
UpdatedBy uniqueidentifier NOT NULL,
IsDeleted bit NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Comment_IsDeleted] DEFAULT (0),
CONSTRAINT [PK_Comment] PRIMARY KEY (CommentID),
CONSTRAINT [FK_Comment_CreatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (CreatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId),
CONSTRAINT [FK_Comment_UpdatedBy] FOREIGN KEY (UpdatedBy) REFERENCES dbo.aspnet_Users(UserId),
CONSTRAINT [UC_Comment_CommentID_ObjectType_XID] UNIQUE (CommentID, ObjectType, XID)
)
-- Ex: Get all comments for article ID 23.
SELECT * FROM Comment Where ObjectType ='A' and XID = '23'
I downloaded and installed VS 2010 Ultimate as a trial and I received "sucessful" message at the end of the installation.
But when I opened VS 2010 Ultimate I received this warning "The 'Visual Studio HTML Editor Package' package did not load correctly.' error message".
The next thing I know is that all the Toolbox icons are grayed out (I tried to create a .NET web application). There is no design/split pane.
I have been trying to install VS 2008 profesional in my computer, I am getting this error "Package Visual Web Developer HTML source editor package has failed to loas properly GUID = BFCC0C3C-6F87-4285-A6C8-BB1606180OD Please contact package vendor for assistance, application restart is recomended , due to possible environment corruption.
View 7 Repliesi am having a problem. i want to get info on a package from database and get the software linked to that package.. my db looks like this.
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I'm looking for any and all information on how to execute an SSIS package from my asp.net web site. I have written the call and when I run the application from (Localhost) it works, but when I run it from the server it does not.
Here is my code to call and execute the package:
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Again this works from my local machine running from localhost, but not from our live server. I have turned on impersination to see if that worked and still getting the same result. The file is written successfully to the server without issue, but I'm just lost.
Could somebody tell me what is the architecture of the .NET, and what is .NET framework and what are the very important things that I really need to learn? On googling I am not getting any satisfactory answers and I am getting more confused also.
View 1 Repliesi create 3folder in solution explorar,model view ,conroller in view i inclde .aspx formsin model class related to data base and in controller properties .so am i follwing mvc architacture .so what is diffrence b/w mvc architacture and mvc framework
View 1 RepliesI am redesigning a Solution's Architecture to implement SOA.
After doing the design changes I have come up with:
MySolution.Client.MyProject.Web ...... //ASP.NET WebSite
MySolution.Client.MyProject.Proxy .... //Service Proxy C# Library Project *[1]
MySolution.Service ................... //Service.cs for Service.svc is here
MySolution.Service.DataContract ...... //IService.cs for Service.cs is here *[2] [code]....
This project contains IService and Request/Response Classes
All methods in Service.cs takes the Request classes as input and return Response classes as output
Therefore this project is referenced by the 2 Client Projects(Web and Proxy), as it contains the IService and all of the Request/Response classes that will be required to communicate with Service.cs
*[3]MySolution.Model: This project contains the .edmx that is the Data Model of Entity Framework and some custom classes that are used in the project.
PROBLEM: Because I only use Request/Response classes to communicate between service and client, The MySolution.Service.DataContract project is only used by Service.cs and Repository.cs
And due to that all responses that Repository generates i have to map them to the properties of its respective response class (which make both the original returned entity, and the response class almost identical). But i am OKAY with it ...
e.g: GetCustomer() in Repository.cs method is called by Service.cs
GetCustomer() method in repository performs the LINQ query and return a "Customer" object
Service.cs then maps all the properties of "Customer" object to the "CustomerResponse" object
Service.cs then returns the "CustomerResponse" to the caller.
in this case most of the properties will repeat in both classes, if there is solution to this, its good, otherwise, I am fine with it.However, when Repository.cs's method GetCustomers() (Notice its not GetCustomer()) is called, it will return List of Customer object, and mapping this for return purpose would mean a "for loop" that iterates the collection and do the mapping ... this is NOT OKAY ...
is there any better way of doing this, considering I do not want to return "Customer" object without "CustomerResponse" as first of all it violates the SOA architecture, and secondly I don't want my Client Projects to have any reference to the Model or Repository projects.
I am designing frameWork for an ERP application ijust have some quries regarding it
Some standards have to be set for this project ,need some help for it.
1)folder structure of the project for frame work 4.0
2)Layering should be done like(3 tier,n tier) if i want to Go for more than 3 layers what could be the other layers except BAL,DAL,Presentation.
3)should all the images be called from css,or some images can be called from the page it self.
4)what benchmarks should be set while writing Stored procs,to make uniformity and increase performance.
5)what securtiy messaures should be taken so that application remains free for intruders.
I am new to Entity frameworks-EF. As, EF is built on top of ADO.NET...If so, will there be any performance issue when we use it?Same way MVC also targets Test Driven , rapid application development only ..What speciality does it add for end-users?As per my understanding ASP.Net 2.0 itself is powerful without MVC and/or EF...
View 7 RepliesI am thinking to use entity model as DAL, how should I create the BLL then? What kind of datasourceobject should I use in the asp pages?
I am looking for best practice to use Entity framework 2 in the three layers design. I had experience at dataset with three layers design.
Should I use objectdatasource at the pages for gridviews? My guess is that entitydatasource by passed the BLL which is not good, so the only option left is the objectdatasource.
Could and should my BL object inherit those entity model in the DAL, so I dont need to recreate their object's property?
I am having troubles understanding the purposes of using Factory pattern, I understand Factory pattern uses Factory class that has methods to return concrete objects. But why don't I simply use new opertor to create concrete objects? Some articles suggest Factory methods could return objects of different concreate classes, I can do the same thing by using switch statement.
Also are there classes in .Net framework already implementing Factory pattern? I think that will give me a better ideas why it is useful.
At work I need to create a new web application, that will connect to an MySql Database.
(So far I only have expercience with Linq-To-Sql classes and MSSQL servers.)
My superior tells me to use the entity framework (he probably refers to Linq-To-Entity) and provide everything as a service based architecture. Unfortunately nobody at work has experience with that framework nor with a real nice server oriented architecture. This speficic project I'm leading will be long-term, meaning multiple years, so it would be best to design it the way, that multiple target plattforms like asp.net, c# wpf, ... could use it)For now, the main target plattform is ASP.net
So I do have the following questions:
1) Where can I read best what's really behind service oriented architecture (but for now beginner tutorials work fine as well) and how to use it in best practise?
2) So far I can't see a real difference between Linq-To-Sql classes and the information I've googled so far on the 'entity framework'. So, whats the difference? Where do I find nice tutorials for it?
3) Is there any difference in the entity framework regarding the database server (MSSQL or MySQL)? If not, does that mean that code snipperts I will stumble across will word database independent?
I'm using the mock framework to unit test some methods. I came across some methods that use delegates. I did not find a way to setup these delegates to return the objects that I want. The mock framework does not support it as far as I know. Is this supported in other mock frameworks like nMock?
View 3 RepliesI have a webservice(Framework 3.5/VS 2008) that assembles data from 3 other webservices and puts it into SQL Server 2005. The data from these webservices is mutually exclusive. What is the recommended architecture for the same?
View 5 RepliesI am using the ADO.NET Entity Framework for loading data from the database. The classes are directly mapped to database tables in the database. The problem is that these classes are not optimal for binding to the UI elements. As a result of this I have some custom entities which are populated at the service layer and returned. It is these custom entities (classes) to which I bind the UI elements. My questions on this are1. Is populating these entities at the service layer the most appropriate way to do this. I personally do not think so because if we introduce some additional UI elements which need different entities then I have to modify the service layer again.2. What is the best approach/pattern to get this done.
View 2 RepliesI'm looking for suggestions for the following issue, and I realize there is really not going to be a perfect answer to my question:I have a UI built in WinForms.NET (v4.0 framework) with WCF back-end and EF4 model objects, that I am looking to port to the web. UI is not huge and is not super complex and is structured well. But it is not a super simple system either. I am looking to pick a technology stack for the web-frontend that will target desktop & partially mobile platforms, provide a good development platform to build on, and facilitate code reuse across UI and back-end tiers...
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Any good example of Three tier architecture in entity framework 4.0 ...
View 1 RepliesI just tring to a complex (for me) with ado.net entity framework this is the structure: In practice it is a sort of group purchasing (Buyers) For each group of purchase (Buyer) should have the opportunity 'to select all products of the brands indicated in buyer I'm doing function to return correct data like this:
public List<Product> GetProductsByBuyer(int vBuyerId)
{
Buyersctx.Products.MergeOption = MergeOption.NoTracking;
return (from lProduct in Buyersctx.Products.Include("Brand").Include("Buyers")
where select lProduct).ToList();
}
I can't to understand clearly how to create strong and quickly application using EF. For example, I have class ForumPost (table ForumPost) for select one of record I write method like:
public ForumPost ForumPost(int ForumPostID)
{
return
(from i in _dataContext.ForumPostSet
where i.ForumPostID == ForumPostID select i).First();
}
all works. But on page (I use ASP.NET MVC) I should display info from another linked tables, ForumName (each post have ForumID) etc. So, I modify this method to:
public ForumPost ForumPost(int ForumPostID)
{
return
(from i in _dataContext.ForumPostSet
.Include("ChildPosts").Include("ParentPost").Include("Users").Include("Forums").Include("Tags").Include("ForumPostPolls")
where i.ForumPostID == ForumPostID select i).First();
}
ok, all works. Then I want to make some actions in model with ForumPost, i.e.
public void RootPost(int PostID, ref Models.ForumPost Root)
{
ForumPost post = ForumPost(PostID);
if (post.RootPost != null)
{
Root = ForumPost(post.RootPost.ForumPostID);
}
else
Root = post;
}
it works too. But problem is in speed. I not need in RootPost all those includes. So, I should to create one more method like:
private ForumPost ForumPostIncludes1(int ForumPostID)
{
return
(from i in _dataContext.ForumPostSet
.Include("ChildPosts")
where i.ForumPostID == ForumPostID
select i).First();
}
then ForumPostIncludes2, ForumPostIncludes3 etc... second way - redesign RootPost with LINQ expr, not with call another method. But in this way difficulties to change DB. third way? How to do it correctly?
I have a web setup package project alongside an old .asmx web service. When I build it I only get 'MyService.msi' and not the 'Setup.exe' in the 'Release' folder after build. Normally the .msi suffices for installation, but on Windows Server 2008 R2 I am getting denied from installing the .msi pacakge. I can only install .exe packages after right clicking and stating "Install as Administrator".
The server admin is still new to 2008 R2 and not sure why I can't install an .msi because I am an admin, so for now if I knew how to get that web setup package to generate the Setup.exe file as well I see my other VS.NET setup packages create.
I'm trying to create a control out of a class I found, and one of the overridden functions is the following:
protected override void PerformDataBinding(IEnumerable data)
However, when I try to build the control I'm getting the error as shown in the subject. I've tried searching, and it seems the signature for the original function matches the one I have, and all other solutions I've seen uses the same signature.
What is the difference between generic and non-generic collection?
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