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How to start with N-tier architecture
If you are a newbie with N-Tier achitecture, .Net and visual Studio, it's quite a challenge to find a good example on the subject.
You should try NTierGen. The tool is a bit expensive, but you have eventually a trial version, just limited to three tables.
The idea to generate the full N-Tier architecture from a wizard is good, including the fact that you can modify the code produced.
This is a really amazing tool, and you should be able to see the sources and look at the way you can build an N-Tier architecture. Of course, I suggest to buy it ;-) -
Accessibility
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Windows 2000 SP4 soon
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For Julia or for the pizza
Just received this by email. Good luck Julia, it's a pity I can't make it, just too much miles but the pizza seem very tempting, not only Julia speech ;-)
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MKB Articles on Index Server with .Net
2 articles if you want to implement Index Server query with ASP.Net:
- The first from an ASPx page.
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CLR guru on holidays ;-)
It seems that Chris Brumme is on holidays. I think he deserve to get them after such prolific blogs !
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SQL book
I received few days a bunch of good books. The one I want to mention is a must-have on your shelve.
If you are working with SQL 2000, SQL 2000 Fast answers is a clever book in the vein of 'How to...' type of books.
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The Mini Mizer
Just for the fun build your own Lego man
Cool if you need an alias ;-) -
PocketFeed
If you are like me, having your PocketPC on the road and you want to read your favorites feeds, Pocket Feed is absolutly great. -
Dynamic queries or stored procedures
Just reading Frans blog about stored procedures and the future for them.
I agree with Frans that views are really powerful.
I like stored procedures because they can be easily updated outside your code.
It's happen many times for me to have to add a field to a database, and if I have to modify a code already in production, I would have certainly to go through some issues.
When you modify your code, it could be hazardous, and sometime a complex query can be difficult to understand when it's embedded in a class.
Stored procedures are easy guys for that.
For the future I expect that Microsoft will not go too much in the 'lazy' proprietary way of doing everything with .Net.
I enjoy Transact-Sql and the way that I can almost change from SQL Server to Oracle without breaking too much things.