data-collection

Best practice of writing a program which has too many data collection processes C#

I have to login in to various elements to retrieve some data, problem is each element has its own login credentials, I want to write all such data collection processes into one single program so that I dont have 10 different scheduled processes to look at. Did any of you have such a challenge, if so how did you go about it? I am right n...

Data Collection from multiple workstations

Hi All, I'm currently working on developing a windows service which will be deployed to all the workstation within the company. The purpose of the service is to collect various statistics and record them in a central location. for the first iteration, the service is doing direct call to SQL to record the every time there is data to rec...

asp.net: which data collection should be used to return a table

I'm using a stored procedure to create a temporary table and want to return it in a data collection: public static >>data collection<< reportData(int intUserID) { SqlConnection con = Sql.getConnection(); try { SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(); cmd = new SqlCom...

Google Analytics - can it collect form data?

Simple scenario: I have a signup form, with user name, password, email address, may be credit card number. At the bottom of the page, I implement the Google Analytics code. when user clicks submit, it goes to a page wihtout google analytics. question is.. can GA get the data (user naem, password..email..etc) in the first form after use...

Capturing International Personal Data (Name, Address, Phone, etc) ASP.NET

I am looking for the best way to capture and validate US & international personal data. I have to use ASP.NET 2.0 (vb.net) and no 3rd party web services. This are all client restrictions. The main point of this is I have to toss their data to FedEx for a shipping quote. I think FedEx has a address checker but that web service was not a...

How to direct people to fill out a form

What is the best way to get people to fill out a form correctly? For instance I originally had a "Name" field on a form and I want 1 person per form. People filled it out like this: "Mark & Becky Newsman". So I broke it into 2 fields, "First Name" and "Last Name", And people are still filling it out wrong, like "First Name" = "Mark & Bec...

What is the appropriate way/pattern to collect information from classes?

To keep things simplified lets say I have an interface RandomProvider interface public interface RandomProvider { double nextRandom(); } And say I have 3 different implementations of this interface, ARandom, BRandom, CRandom. I want to collect some statistics about the implementations: how many times nextRandom() is called sum ...