Architecture

Design Tip: String vs. Enum

Sometimes developers need to choose proper data type for their application business entities properties. Many times it is obvious choices for example choosing String for Name, GUID for Id, etc [ ... ]

posted @ Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:17 PM | Your thoughts

Natural Key vs. Surrogate Key - Userid in Social Networks

All of us (almost) are the members of different social networks: Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Hi5, etc. We ARE users. User is a real entity - a real person. One of the problems is the ability to identify a user in a unique way across the internet. There are 2 approaches to identify entity [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, May 30, 2008 1:36 PM | Your thoughts

Business Entity in Component-Oriented Architecture

Blog entry which is a so-called Business Entity Manifesto, which defines Entity in Component-Oriented application architecture, shows characteristics, schema and examples. Also it helps to distinguish between Entity and other types of Application components [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, March 3, 2007 7:01 AM | Your thoughts

Enterprise Library DAAB: AddParameter vs. AddInParameter

Blog entry about Enterprise Library DAAB: AddParameter vs. AddInParameter [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:39 PM | Your thoughts

Design Guidelines: Generic Type Parameters

Blog entry about Design Guidelines: Generic Type Parameters [ ... ]

posted @ Monday, December 5, 2005 2:55 AM | Your thoughts

Core Coding Guidelines from Microsoft

Blog entry about Core Coding Guidelines from Microsoft [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, January 28, 2005 1:34 AM | Your thoughts

Smart Client Architecture Guide

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posted @ Sunday, August 1, 2004 4:22 AM | Your thoughts

Fewer Assemblies better

Blog entry about Fewer Assemblies better [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, May 7, 2004 2:32 AM | Your thoughts