Architecture

MSBuild Links!

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:20:31 GMT

Last week I was occupied by two things: Year End Party and MSBuild. Former was rocking and later was interesting! I’ve got few links and would like to share it with you guys.

MSBuild Links:

MSBuild.pdf : http://www.guysmithferrier.com/downloads/msbuild.pdf

[ppt] MSBuild : Architecting and Customized Build System: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/1/6/f16badeb-a4d7-434b-92a9-8e2f716c35fe/DEV/Managing_the_Daily_Build_Process_with_Team_System_and_MSBuild.ppt

[MSDN TV] Visual Studio 2005: MSBuild - http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040122vsnetak/manifest.xml

7 Steps to MSBuild: http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/11/30/7-steps-to-msbuild/

MSBuild Team Blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/default.aspx

Compile Apps Your Way With Custom Tasks For The Microsoft Build Engine : http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/06/insidemsbuild/default.aspx

http://www.sedodream.com/CategoryView,category,MSBuild.aspx

MSBuild: By Example: http://en.csharp-online.net/MSBuild:_By_Example

Integrating MSBuild with CruiseControl.NET : http://www.dougrohm.com/cs/pages/56.aspx

I hope that you’ll find it useful!

If you have more links just add a comment to this post!

Happy Building

MSDN Wiki

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:03:00 GMT

MSDN Wiki

What is MSDN Wiki?

MSDN Wiki provides an infrastructure for users to comment, edit, and add content to the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 online documentation.

What Microsoft content is included on the MSDN Wiki beta site?

The site includes the English version of the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation. In addition, it includes versions of these topics that are machine translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

How is this different from the content on msdn2.microsoft.com?

MSDN Wiki pulls its Microsoft content from the same database used by MSDN, so the Microsoft content you see on the MSDN Wiki site is the same as what is available on MSDN2. With the MSDN Wiki site we are experimenting with ways we can integrate community contributions into the Microsoft content.

Will other languages be included in the future?

Within the next year we plan to add MSDN Wiki functionality to the Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese documentation.

Will content I add during the beta period be carried over to the RTW version of the site?

Yes!

MSDN Wiki Home

MSDN Wiki FAQ's

Happy Wiking

Choosing Between Transact-SQL and Managed Code

Ram Shankar Yadav — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:38:00 GMT

I got this from my friend Shally, and it really worth reading ...........

When you write stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions, one decision you will now have to make is whether to use traditional Transact-SQL or a programming language that is compatible with the .NET Framework, such as Visual Basic .NET or C#. The answer to this question will depend on the particular situation that is involved; in some situations you'll want to use Transact-SQL, while in other situations you will want to use managed code.

Transact-SQL is best for situations in which the code will primarily perform data access with little or no procedural logic. Programming languages that are compatible with the .NET Framework are best suited for computationally intensive functions and procedures that feature complex logic, or for situations in which you want to take advantage of the .NET Framework class library.

Code placement is also important. Both Transact-SQL and managed code run on the server. This places functionality and data close together, and allows you to take full advantage of a server's processing power. This is beneficial because it decreases traffic between the data and middle-tier. By simply performing the computation next to the data, a system that is I/O-bound may find this method significantly beneficial. CLR functions also can take advantage of the SQL Server query processor, which can parallelize and optimize execution. On the other hand, you may wish to avoid placing processor intensive tasks on your database server. Most client computers today are very powerful, and you may wish to take advantage of this processing power by placing as much code as possible on the client. There is no "one size fits all" answer.

Happy Coding

Microsoft Technology Experts Live : Webcasts on .NET 3.0, Aspiring Architects and more...

Ram Shankar Yadav — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:51:00 GMT

Webcasts this September & October | Mon - Fri

Hey guys it's back again! Yes, Microsoft Technology Experts is once again here with new bunch of webcasts on:

Webcasts on .NET 3.0, Aspiring Architects and more...

You can get more info on this from links section.

Links:

Microsoft Technology Experts Live : Webcasts on .NET 3.0, Aspiring Architects and more...

Happy Learning

ASP.NET 2.0 Page LifeCycle

Ram Shankar Yadav — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:17:00 GMT

I found this great poster of ASP.NET 2.0 Page LifeCycle @ Manish Agrawal's Blog.

Thanks Manish for sharing a great resource with developers community!

Happy Programming :)

StarUML: OpenSource UML/MDA Platform

Ram Shankar Yadav — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:27:00 GMT

I got this wonderful free tool which is free for download and ofcourse it's OpenSource. Although I have not gone through all the functionalities of this tool but I'll be exploring it very soon.

What is StarUML?

StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial modeling tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.

Key Features

UML 2.0 diagrams
Various language support. (Java, C++, C# modules)
Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) generation based on customizable template.
Customizable code generation.
Support MDA technology. (UML profiles and customizable diagrams)
Diagram extensibility. (Define your own type of diagram beyond the UML)
High compatibility. (Rose, XMI modules)
Model verification (based on UML 1.4 well-formedness rules)
Pattern support

Screenshot

Links:

http://www.staruml.com/

http://staruml.tigris.org/

It's really a great free tool, explore it in your spare time !

UML Fundamentals

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:37:00 GMT

I found these articles while I was searching for some basic UML stuff on net.

UML Fundamentals -1 briefs basics of UML, Usecase Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.

UML Fundamentals -2 gives details of Collabration Diagram, Class Diagram and State Transistion Diagram.

UML Fundamentals -3 throws light on Activity Diagram, Component Diagram, Deployment Diagram and finally Advantages and conclusion.

Links:

UML Fundamentals 1: http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/articles/274.aspx

UML Fundamentals 2: http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/articles/282.aspx

UML Fundamentals 3: http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/articles/283.aspx

I hope this will be helpful for the people who want to learn UML or have a brief reference of it.

Give it a look it's worth it !

GoF Design Patterns Periodic Table

Ram Shankar Yadav — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:33:00 GMT

Technology Gallery | Original Image

Links:

Design Patterns: http://home.earthlink.net/~huston2/dp/patterns.html

Something that every Architect must have!