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Aggregator Provider Pattern: White Paper and Samples

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:01:02 GMT

Provider Aggregator Pattern is an extension of Provider Pattern, which enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of the class having the same provider interface. In this pattern, there is an Aggregator class which implements the provider interface and contains a collection of instances of classes having the same provider interface.

Logical Query Processing Phases - Order of Statement Execution

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:31:02 GMT

SQL SERVER -What actually sets SQL Server apart from other programming languages is the way SQL Server processes its code. Generally, most programming languages process statement from top to bottom. By contrast, SQL Server processes them in a unique order which is known as Logical Query Processing Phase. These phases generate a series of virtual tables with each virtual table feeding into the next phase (virtual tables not viewable). These phases and their orders are given as follows:

Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:16:04 GMT

Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System Test Edition provides a powerful platform to perform high volume load testing. It also provides high end flexibilities to write and utilize external plug-in for extended functionalities. "Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in" enables users to send the load test reports to one or more pre-configured email addresses automatically, once a VSTS Load Test is completed. This open-source load test plug-in also provides supports for customization by which you can customize the reported performance data.

Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Machine

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:01:15 GMT

To be benefited from Agile concept, developers and managers needs to take it as an ideology, rather considering it as technology. The very basic concept is, keep it simple, provide the working samples in iterative manner, work with trust and discover the future risk factors by discussing with team members (not just spending hundreds of hours to read and write documentation's!). Why Agile projects are successful? This encourages HUMAN effort and motivation, not on machines! And it's been absolutely proven is HUMAN is the most powerful process in the universe!

Debate: Do We Really Need Three Layer Architecture?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:46:09 GMT

How many of you changed your database vendor (i.e. Sql Server, Access) after developing an application? How many of your data entities include business logic? I could say, less than 10% in both cases for my case. I found the similar statistics for my other known developers. I guess this is true for less that 10% of the developers around the world.

.NET Application Modeling Language (nAML) Specification and Tools

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:31:03 GMT

Understanding the architecture and code in software application plays as major factors while building good software products. This free e-book introduces a new visual modeling technique, termed as "nAML" (.NET Application Modeling Language) which overcomes the limitation of typical modeling languages by providing revolutionary way! Nothing much to say, just download it and you can get to know how POWERFUL it is!