thick-client

Creating An Insert Statement -- Windows application Vb.Net

I am doing windows appliction in vb.net. i have customer object contains save method. how do i generate insert query? I need to save the object in relational database (SQL server). I need to know which is the correct way of doing the insertion ie,. Inside the save method i have written the SQL statement to save the object. Is it the cor...

how to create Toolbar in window Application using C#

i want to create toolbar using window application in dotnet.it will use yahoo,gmail API. please anybody have any solution pls send me. ...

When should you build a web application vs. a thick client?

I would like to hear other people's advice on when one should build a web application versus building a thick client. Over the last few years, I have participated in several discussions about whether an application should be built (or an old application upgraded) with a web browser interface. Usually these were internal systems used wi...

How to diagnose ArgumentOutOfRangeException on SqlDbType?

We have some customers using our .NET 2.0 thick-client app that experience strange, intermittent errors reading data from a SQL 2000 SP4 Server, where the actions succeeded just moments earlier. We have some customers using SQL 2000 (and many using 2005) where these errors do not occur. One thing I notice is that the app in our testing ...

Local vs. Centralized Processing

Hi Everyone, I work at a company with a large SAP investment, and we also have dozens of large .Net systems (mostly internally for engineering systems), and Java platforms (mostly for external web applications). As such, we have large development shops on ABAP, C#, and JEE. We have over 20 major facilities distributed over very large d...

Framework for scalable (size) GUI (swing,flash,air,..) ?

Is anyone aware of scalable GUI for the desktop (or browser) ? Imagine you layout a huge gui that is too big for one regular screen, but you could zoom out see the complete gui (and even could press buttons etc.) or zoom into the area of your interest. Similar to browser on a mobile phone, zoom out and you cant read the text, but you st...

Integrating Google AppEngine with a Thick Client

I want to make a multi-user client-server solution with Java Swing thick client as a front-end and Google AppEngine (Java one) as a back-end. The problem is that GAE provides only web-based forms for logging in and out, so there's no trivial way to employ Google Accounts features in a thick client. Can you give some advices/hints/ideas...

How does your thick-client test whether it is compatible with the database schema?

I develop an app with both thick-client and thin-client components. We also version our database such that schema changes result in their own version number and change scripts can be applied. Database changes, however, don't always occur in step with thick-client changes. Yes, today's database change might add a column and necessitate a ...

Session management between thick client and server?

My application is a Eclipse Rich Client and I would like to add authentication and authorization features to. My Users and roles are stored in a database and my application also has a web based admin console which lets me manage users and roles. I am leveraging Spring security on this admin console. So here's my requirement: I would ...

Protecting sensitive entity data

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on architecture for a client/server solution with some peculiarities. The client is a fairly thick one, leaving the server mostly to peristence, concurrency and infrastructure concerns. The server contains a number of entities which contain both sensitive and public information. Think for example that the...