| The Big Question... (3 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I am constantly struggling with the problem of what 'type' of application to develop. WinForm or WebForm? The customer says I need a central database for all sites but the sites are geographically disperse limited to DSL Internet access (VPN solution not an option due to huge support burden). The users at each site want a rich, high performance interface but the folks back at headquarters want a b... |
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| CMAB Question (3 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi all, I d like someone from Microsoft Team answer this question: I've read the CMAB and I don't understand one thing : The center of all the CMAB is the .config files but this file is not a secure place to store all the data, is it ? What happen if someone get holds of the .config and modifies for example the encryptation flag of the configProvider section ????? I would like to know some way to ... |
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| .NET Remoting vs DataSet (6 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi Everybody, We are currently using .NET Remoting to centralize processes. Our only problem with it is data transfer from the server to the client... it is very slow even if we have a good server. If we transfer a small dataset or hashtable or object, no problem but has soon as there is a certain amount of data being transfered... it becomes very slow. One example is a 10000 records with 80 colum... |
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| How to make a "Trial Version"... (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Does anyone have a Q doc or URL that describes how to make a trial version of your .Net application? Thanks, kwilder |
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| Smart Client - how to deploy an assembly that uses unmanaged DLL (4 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi there, I have an .NET application that uses a number managed components. One of managed component internally makes some calls to unmanaged DLL The question is: how can I deploy such an application using Smart Client technology (problem with deploying unmanaged DLL). I have tried to create a loader application and load components using Assembly.LoadFrom() method. It works fine for pure managed c... |
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| MY ASP.NET stopped to talking to my IIS! (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| All of a sudden I can not launch my ASP.NET programs on the IE 6.0. Things were working fine before.... I reinstalled IIS and then MS VS .NET (Enterprise development) but the problem is still there. I get the following error when trying to run the program in debug mode: "Error while trying to run proj: Unable to start debugging the web server. Server side error occurred on sending the debug HTTP r... |
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| Application Updater - How to Install MSM's (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi, I'm trying to find method by which we can deploy out sindow forms application at the client. It is a windows form application, updating a SQL server database. Simple. I've looked at the Microsoft Application Updater Blocks and alos the www.gotdotnet.com .NET Application Updater. Neither of these seem to overcome some simple tasks, and have glaring limitations that I can see, and I would apprec... |
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| Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ConfigurationManagement.Interfaces.dll name too long for CD printing (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Am I missing something obvious here or is this a major oversight..? When deploying the app blocks config management dlls with our apps, we can't write the Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ConfigurationManagement.Interfaces.dll file to CD because the name is too long! Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks |
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| UIProcess Application Block web.config problem (5 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| From a different thread posted recently "Licensing Question", it was stated by a representative of Microsoft that to use these application blocks in potentially commercial apps, the namespace of the application blocks must be changed (as well as other changes). I have tried to do just this with the UIP Application Block, but without success. Here is what I did: 1) I created a blank class library c... |
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| Using Web Service In Real Life (3 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| OK, So here is my question.... If I understand correctly, when you add a Web Reference to a VS.NEt project, it includes the exact URL (via the WSDL or DISCO forget which) where the web service should be executed from in real life, while developing an application, the exact location of the web server would change. For example, as your application migrates from its Development Environment to is func... |
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| logging application block ? (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi, I am looking for any information on logging application block ... An Exemple or Information. I already took the file of Microsoft with the basic class, but I would like a sample to test and see. Thank you . Mathieu |
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| Remote Console - Remoting? (3 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I have a service that is written in .net and is running on our server. I want to develop a remote console that would be a .net *.exe that would run on a remote machine and connect to the specified service. I want this remote console to be able to connect to the service and report back stats from the service. The service could expose properties or methods with real time counters and status informat... |
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| Moving Web Projects between machines (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I've been developing an ASP.NET web app. I run VS.NET on one machine and host the web app on another. Both machines are XP Pro boxes. I'm going on the road and would like to move/copy the whole project onto my laptop so I can continue to work on it. When I get back, I'd like to move the changes back to the original hosting machine and/or dev machine. I'm wondering if there's a convenient way to mo... |
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| Authentication through sockets (4 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi, I want to connect to my FTP Server through the authenticated proxy server. My application works behind the proxy when there is no authentication enabled at the proxy server. I am unable to pass the authentication to the socket once the proxy server is authenticated. So can you please help me as how to pass the username/password to get connected to the proxy server through sockets. Regards, Man... |
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| SmartClients... (2 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hello, Does anyone know of any good books / articles that talk about developing SmartClients ? Many thanks... Kate |
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| Separate Application and Database Server? (4 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| We have a 3 tier Microsoft.Net OLTP application, which we currently have installed on several sites with up to 350 concurrent users, with the application and database (MS Sql) server installed on the same box. We have been asked to provide a specification to support 500 concurrent users. Does anyone have any experience of whether it would be better to spend money on one big box or 2 smaller ones. ... |
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| Installing a Win32 Service written in .Net (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I would like to install a Win32 Service, written in .Net, on a box without the user having to register the server with "installUtil" and going into the services window and setting up the "Startup type" and properties. Thanks, Marc Allen |
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| Windows Service Auto-Restart (4 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I have a windows service written in VB.NET that needs to be able to restart itself. How would I go about doing this? The server is a Windows 2000 box. *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it! |
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| Allow Updater to skip an update (3 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hi, I'm currently using Updater Application Block for my application, my approach is basically the same as the Self updating from the example. However I notice that when prompt that there is a new version available and I click "No". The updater will terminate, I like to make it so that when I click "No" it will go through the polling delay and prompt for update again. Is it possible to accomplish ... |
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| Where does the Remoted Object Live? (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I created the simplest possible remoting sample: a winforms client to register a client type and dimension a remotable type, a command line host to register a service type, and the type itself, which is a class that consists of a single method, which returns the thread ID on which it is running. What I discovered was this: the client was running one one thread (expected) and the host on another th... |
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| How to stop Updater? (2 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I've written a class that uses the ApplicationUpdateManager. The ApplicationUpdateManager uses the DownloadManager to perform work. When the DownloadManager cannot download something properly, I'd like to stop the ApplicationUpdateManager object. But the DownloadManager does not throw exceptions or fire events when it has trouble downloading something. It only uses Debug to write messages. Applica... |
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| Lhotka's CSLA framework-competitors? (4 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| My organization is considering adopting Rockford Lhotka's CSLA (Component based Scalable Logical Architecture) as the application framework of choice for new applications. We are full scale on the .NET bandwagon, and are mostly a VB.NET shop, with some C# here and there as well. .NET is still fairly new and we are still very much in the learning curve stage. What else would people suggest we look ... |
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| Best practices for validation (discussion) (2 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| I am looking into "best practices" for implementing validation in a n tier application. UI is initially Windows Forms, but there will also be some web UI later. "Is it sensible to try to encapsulate validation logic in a business entity, in order to keep my UI as thin as possible" e.g. I have a text box on my form to enter a social security number. This has a well defined format, e.g as a regular ... |
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| Updater Application Block problem (5 replies) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| Hello, I built an example following step by step SelfUpdating solution. For my exe, I created a config file by making the necessary changes to SelfUpdating.exe.config (various paths new keys). When I launch the app (using AppStart or directly) I always get the error shown at the bottom of the messge. I'm sure that the file is valid. The exception is too generic and doesn't help at all. Does anyone... |
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| Updater App Block - can't kill thread (7 replies, VIP) |
| microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps |
| My ApplicationManager object is running in a thread called updaterThread. I'm unable to kill it. After this code executes, I can still see the process in Task Manager. Is this the proper way to kill it? Do I have to call updaterThread.Abort ? updater.StopUpdater(); if( null ! updaterThread ) { // join the updater thread with a suitable timeout bool isThreadJoined updaterThread.Join( UPDATERTHREAD ... |
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