Hi, We are looking at a standard way of configuring the various "endpoints" of our application. Our application is a distributed system with Windows Desktop applications, Windows Server "services" and databases. We currently configure each piece using XML files. This is getting a little out of hands as we work with larger customers who ...
I am currently wondering how a centralized page authenticator could be achieved. Can anyone suggest a neat algorithm for me? What I intend to achieve is to make my backend administrator pages session protected without writing a piece of session checking code to each of my pages that I want protected. I currently do something like this: ...
We've an SQL Server DB design time scenario .. we've to store data about different Organizations in our database (i.e. like Customer, Vendor, Distributor, ...). All the diff organizations share the same type of information (almost) .. like Address details, etc... And they will be referred in other tables (i.e. linked via OrgId and we hav...
My team has inherited support for 100+ applications. The applications don't have any kind of common architecture, so the ones that do logging usually do it with custom code to local files or a local database, and it's all unmanaged. We want to change that. We're slowly migrating the applications over to using log4net and standardising t...
We are using Git with a central server, and our code needs to include a version number in a file. The way this is currently done is like this: A new developer does a "git clone" In his local copy, he edits .git/hooks/pre-commit to call version.sh version.sh (which is included in the project root) takes a version number from "git desc...
I know 1000s of similar topics floating around. I read at lest 5 threads here in SO But why am I still not convinced about DVCS? I have only following questions (note that I am selfishly worried only about Java projects) What is the advantage or value of committing locally? What? really? All modern IDEs allows you to keep track of you...
Hi guys... I am developing application to be run in central server and distributed computers. I am supposed to write application to backup the data from distributed machines and merge it in central server. I thought of compressing whole local database and sending it to server for merging. But as the database size grows the size of comp...
I'm wondering how others deal with trying to centralize MessageBox function calling. Instead of having long text embedded all over the place in code, in the past (non .net language), I would put system and application base "messagebox" type of messages into a database file which would be "burned" into the executable, much like a resourc...
Here's a question that I have been wrestling with for a while. We have a situation wherein we have a number of applications that we have created. These have grown organically over a period of time. All of these applications have permissions code built into them that controls access to various parts of the application depending on whethe...
Hi all, I'm looking for some guidance here. On my site I put things in Web user controls. For example, I will have a NewsItem Control, an Article Control, a ContactForm control. These will appear in various places on my site. What I'm looking for is a way for these controls to pass messages up to the Page that they exist on. I don'...
Friends I am going through this pain of remembering all urls or adding it to my favorites every time there is a release or search for the urls in mailbox when needed it is confusing all the time. We have around 25 apps which we use regularly in our daily work and its growing. I have this idea to develop little J2EE app or a work flow wh...
I am new to VC++ and I have good experience in working with C# on .net platform. Presently I am in a project which is a combination of VC++ and C# on .net platform. I used to add centralized exception handling for all windows form applications developed using C#. What I mean by centralized exception here means something like this http:/...