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re: Web Services Software Factory, the solution to all our problems?

TC — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:27:04 GMT

My experience with the Web Service factory (or more accurately responses from people TO the factory) is as follows:

1. Enterprise Architects relate (falsely) the Wizard/Recipe nature of the factory to magically producing a useful Service - in reality the devil is in the details.

2. Developers consider it 'to complicated' and opt for a more simple approach without all the different layers and additional Request/Response classes.

3. Developers consider it 'to time consuming' and opt for a faster approach whereby a 'working' service can be built more readily.

The complication/productivity issue is analogous to justifications for not performing unit testing - the perception of productivity in the short term is considered more important than long term loss of productivity. I recall a project I worked on whereby when I inquired why unit tests were not being written, the response was "We don't have time for that". Sometime later the project was repeatedly delayed predominately due to the number and severity of bugs and design issues as a result of the "we don't have enough time for that" ethos.

I don't agree with the aforementioned justifications - it is simply what I have experienced in the 'real world'.

re: "Weak" assembly reference not found by MSBuild

Oleg Yaroshevych — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:43:32 GMT

Thanks, I've spent few hours trying to fix it...

re: Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

Daniel Saidi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:49:24 GMT

Hi there!

The following blog discusses the issues of dynamically loading user controls.

daniel-saidi.blogspot.com/.../aspnet-dynamically-loaded-usercontrol.html

It features a small, downloadable class which, hopefully, will take care of this issue for you and let you focus on other things.

re: Error 1327 Invalid drive

Micke — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:11:32 GMT

Thanks!

This was exactly what I needed instead of all crappy advices to delete any references to the problem drive. There is a reason why you would use folder redirection.

This shitty problem occured for me in Windows Vista BTW:-).

The most embarrasing about it is that it was my own fault. I redirected My Documents and used device path instead of UNC-path and didn't think about the problem when you use secondary logon...

Anyways, Thanks!

re: Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

anders — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:25:30 GMT

No, of course not. The only reason why you would want to use this method is in order to overcome the initial problem with caching dynamically loaded controls where each control has different content even though they share the same .ascx (as mentioned in the first post).

With that said, I don't expect this method to be very slow since compiling the page only happens the first time it is shown.

re: Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

Stewart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:12:14 GMT

This seems counter intuitive, Can dynamically generating and compiling the code really be quicker than just using LoadControl ? surely not?

Scrum Dashboard

Smöråkning — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:31:40 GMT

If you're a fan of Scrum and Team Foundation Server you'll probably want to have a look at the

What's up?

Smöråkning — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:09:52 GMT

I know, I know.. I've been extremely lazy lately, at least when it comes to sharing knowledge with

re: Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

anders — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:33:22 GMT

Hi Matt,

Can you explain in a bit more detail? I didn't quite get what you are trying to do I'm afraid.

re: Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

Matt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:11:40 GMT

Hi, I had a look at your solution as i was trying to do the same kind of stuff, but i'm having problems with update panels which are loaded in a dynamic way in some of my user controls ascx. Do you know a way to do that? Cheers

re: Error 1327 Invalid drive

Kai C — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:18:32 GMT

Super. Tack!

re: Generating a cross-product with MSBuild

chmarroc — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:53:18 GMT

There is yet another solution I proposed at

channel9.msdn.com/.../MSBuild.BatchingExamples

Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET - solution

Smöråkning — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:05:55 GMT

In my last post , I asked for help with a problem we've been having with caching of dynamic controls

re: Documenting Web Services

anders — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:12:17 GMT

I started out building a wrapper around Microsoft UDDI services that was more tailored to the way we work (and that would be able to hold the documentation). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to spend enough time on it. Still, it was looking promising so I might revisit it when the work-load decreases a bit.

re: Documenting Web Services

Will Nourse — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:45:14 GMT

Hi - just found this and am running into the same issue. Started down the Sandcastle route, but I don't think that's really going to cut it for now. Wondering if you have made any progress?