I'm looking at adding scripting functionality to an existing codebase and am weighing up the pros/cons of various packages. Lua is probably the most obvious choice, but I was wondering if people have any other suggestions based on their experience. Scripts will be triggered upon certain events and may stay resident for a period of time....
I'm a firm believer of the heretic thought of tight coupling between the backend and frontend: I want existing, implied knowledge about a backend to be automatically made use of when generating user interfaces. E.g., if a VARCHAR column has a maximum with of 20 characters, there GUIs should automatically constrain the user from typing mo...
I have an ajax page which pulls data from a database. I'd like to add a processing applet to visualize the data but i can't figure out how to update the visualization as the data changes. The idea is to be able to push new data into the visualization. I'm not tied to the processing technology, anything will work. Processing just seems t...
We are currently working on a "data-driven" state machine application. Right now, the state flows are all configured in the database, but none of the decision/business logic is configurable in the DB with our current design. Because of this, the code has to basically "know" the state flow as well, so there's really no point in configur...
Are there any frameworks out there that allow for data-driven dependency injection (ideally in .NET)? I'm thinking something inspired by Spring.NET for example, where you configure your object graphs in structured database tables, rather than using an XML config file. What would be the pros and cons of configuring your application in t...
Dear sirs. Our CI server is powered by hudson with mstest. We use the hudson mstest plugin. Everything works fine, except there is a problem when a data driven unit test fails. The mstest plugin does not know to drill further down the data rows, like the Visual Studio does when one clicks on a failed data driven unit test. So, when a d...
I've been tasked at work to write a detailed engineering plan for a logistics application that we are coding to propose to a customer. I have been told that it is a data-driven application. What does it mean for an application to be "data-driven"? What is the opposite? I can't seem to get any really clear answer for this although while w...
If a web application relies on a database to serve dynamic content and that content is unavailable for whatever reason (database server down, etc.), what is the preferred method for handling this scenario? Redirect the visitor to a custom 404 page? Display the page anyway but include some sort of error message where the content would o...
If i have for example this two classes, where I have a One To Many Relationship and i want to perform a Visual Studio Data-Driven Unit test, how can I get the data from multiple sources using visual studio or how can i flatten the orders data in a column? What i mean is that if i can´t access multiple sources from a data-driven test, i w...
I have inherited several related, low-traffic web sites to manage and edit. These sites are implemented with static html, and they've accrued lots of stray tags and other cruft. I want to try to clean these up and migrate them to some common page template framework to simplify design and data changes and improve overall consistency. T...
Is there any way we can extract Selenium-IDE output as an excel sheet and then use java reflection to trigger them one-by-one? Any existing good tool already done this? ...
I want to create ASP.NET 4.0 dynamic pages loaded from my MS SQL server. Basically, it's a list of locations with information. For example: Location1 would have the page www.site.com/location/location1.aspx Location44 would have the page www.site.com/location/location44.aspx I don't even know where to start with this, URL rewriting ma...
Where can I find more detail about my subscription errors. I have a data driven subscription, showing status: Done: 24 processed of 24 total; 24 errors. but my trace file ReportServerService__xxxxx.log does not show any errors. It does show the subscription ran, but just no errors. My server DefaultTraceSwitch set to 3 and also trie...
Is there something close to Html.EditorForModel() for WPF? ex: <StackPanel><local:EditorControl<Student> /> </StackPanel> or Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Description) What are the best practices for rapid development of data driven applications using WPF? ...
Context: Building a smart client application on the .NET platform where you have a complex database model with a high number of columns involved. The natural application style is a typical data driven CRUD. There’s also a fair bit of server side logic in some cases, and somewhat complex validations. You have full control of client and se...