Natty Gur

Enterprise Architect on Enterprise Architecture

  • PreRender event not firing on ImageButton

    Well there is a bug in ImageButton OnPreRender that simply don’t call base.OnPreRender so your event handler will never run. If you want to workaround this problem you can create your own ImageButton. Your new web custom control should overload OnPreRender and PreRender event.

  • Naked objects and competitive intelligence

    I already post about naked objects. I really found the idea of letting users controlling the flow between objects instead of predefined application flows predefined by analysts and programmers. As I thought about naked objects and talked about it with others I found out that naked objects actually "invented" for competitive intelligence (CI) solutions. CI work is about identifying entities in your business environment and relations between those entities. Those entities could be Companies, figures, products, countries, organizations and so on. Finding different relations between entities usually helps analysts to drive into conclusion about "research target" intensions, movements, etc' that might harm or benefit their company. Searching after entities and links is very dynamic process. Usually its hours of reading that pop-up pre-defined as new entity types. The user need to draw "CI picture" that holds all instances of pre-defined entities, pre-defined links as well as new entity types and links which both of them contain new properties and methods. This "CI picture" is complex and dynamic objects graph that should be adjusted any time in the analysis process.

  • Smart client assembly wont download to client until all opened explores closed.

    We found out (using gacutil /ldl) that new versions of smart client assembly aren't being download to the client although we place in the server assembly with newer time stamp. After long research we found out that if one of explores that was opened while the smart client assembly download is still open the assembly file can't be removed (gacutil /cdl). Just after closing all explorers window we managed to down load smart client assembly and saw it using gacutil. I've no idea why opened explorer windows should influence explorer window that that he is the chosen one (to download smart client assembly J ).

  • For all of you that ask to join NWAF or download beta version.

     Although there is a project on sourceforge I'm still working on the bites so you can have something to play with. Due to the fact that I'm working on NWAF after my working hours it will take me more time. I'll post here NWAF design to hear your   constructive criticism ;-).