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Does Anyone Have Experience Creating an Occasionally-Connected Browser App With NHibernate?

We need to make our enterprise ASP.NET/NHibernate browser-based application able to function when connected to or disconnected from the customer's server. Has anyone done this? If so, how did you do it? (Technology, architecture, etc.) Background: We develop and sell an enterprise browser-based application used by construction field pe...

Sync Framework Resources

I am looking for resources on Microsoft Sync Framework. Although MSDN and Google Search gave me the brief overview, I want some demos and presentations. Also, is Live Mesh based on Sync Framework? ...

How relevant is support for "occasional connected" scenarios?

A while back, smart clients had been touted as the solution to "occasional connected" usage environments, and toolkits like Google Gears have sprouted for the same reason. It looks to me like constant, reliable Internet access is becoming more and more pervasive (even in places such as commercial airplanes), so my question to the communi...

Local reporting options in a Disconnected environment?

What are my options to allow local reporting in my environment? I have an existing central reporting services already working that they access through the web. I now need to offer those same reports on there local machine. What are the local reporting options? Each local machine has SQL Express 2005 running on it. Would I have to ...

ADO.NET Sync Framework - Determining which records synced successfully/failed from PDA to Server.

I am using ADO.NET Sync Framework and on the client side (PDA running Windows Mobile 5 and .net cf 3.5 and SQL CE 3.5). Server side is using SQL Server 2005. On server side manual queries have been written to determine which records are selected for insert/update/delete for each client as well as any conflicting records. On PDA though...

How to license my .net application (remotely, but occasionally connected) ?

I have a .net application (c#, Winform and libraries) that I want people to download from the Internet freely. But once installed they'll only be able to run it if I give them a license (and I want to be able to give different licenses according to what feature I want to unlock). I also want the license to be time-limited. After it expir...

Tools for Building an OCA (Occasionally Connected Application)

I will be building an in-house, Occasionally Connected App (OCA). What technologies would you suggest I employ. Here are my parameters: .NET Shop(3.5sp1) C# for code behind (winform,wpf,silverlight) SQL Server Backend (2005 or possibly 2008 pending approval) Solo Developer Solo SQL Administrator Low Tech end users Low bandwidth to 5 B...

SQL Trigger that runs ONLY at Publisher

I have an in house app that has both a Web Interface and a Desktop Interface(is an OCA using Merge Replication). We are still using SQL 2005 and have many 'Archive' tables set up. These are filled by Triggers on there relating Table. tblPersonArchive for tblPerson, etc. To keep the Replication Sets as small as possible I would like t...

Where can i find a sample showing an Occasionally Connected Application in NET?

Where can i find a sample showing an Occasionally Connected Application in NET? Preferably in C# and SQL CE ...

Sync Framework with SQL DB's: Getting Started

I have an app that uses SQL Enterprise to store all data in 4 different DB's. I needed to build in the ability to work "offline" for my users. I accomplished this through Merge Replication to local SQL Express installs for everyone. This "Works" but feels like the sledge hammer approach. For instance, I am replicating all 14000 peo...

Incremental syncronization for occasionally connected clients using JDO

Hello, Is it possible to do Incremental syncronization for occasionally connected clients using JDO. I stumbled upon JDOReplicationManager but not sure whether is solves the following needs, Replication to be initiated from an web application. Replication should be a two way process. i.e. Synchronization If there is a failure in netwo...