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You're joking, right? Why should anyone send you the documentaion they wrote for their own systems?? Considering that this is a security risk in any organization, I seriously doubt you'll ever get someone to hand over their doc's...
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Hi
I have been pondering this "problem" for a while now and thought I'd submit it here for some more ideas. (Hope I chose the right message board.)
Scenario: an application that allows users to generate quotes, obviously the quotes need some sort of sequential numbering. The problem is that it is a semi-connected application so the user could be generating the quote offline.
Question: What is the best way to go about generating a quote (reference) number?
Some of my ideas: the 1st would be something like a date-time stamp (including miliseconds) but this makes the number to long. You don't want the client reading a 16 digit number for reference purposes. I also though of including a type of employee code to increate the uniqueness but I don't think it will help too much.
Am I missing something or is this fairly impossible to do? Your comments will be great.
Thanks
Francois
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In a semi connected environment its going to be extremely difficult to pull off sequential numbering at all. I'm assuming this is the scenario:
1. Your field guys may disconnect
2. Create an arbitary number of quotes
3. Give the client their quote number on the spot
4. Return and resync.
Point 2 can be solved if you can get them to create a pending quote on the way out for all their appointments, this might be a workaround. Point 3 prevents you from ever changing the quote number on resync, so you need to be certain its good.
I'd question the need for exact sequential numbering. Typically accountanty people like their invoice numbers to be sequential, but this doesnt prevent you from giving a reference number that can be generated on the spot. Generation would depend on your environment, something like field guy id dash, sequence number.
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Thanks for your input Mark
I will definitely interrogate the reasoning behind HAVE TO HAVE a sequential numbering.
I thought of a workaround similar to your pending quote and that is that the field guy prerequests a few seq-reference numbers which is then allocated to him. No more allocated numbers left = can't create quote.
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Does the quote ID have to be numeric or could you use a string? Does it have to be sequential or just unique within the system?
How about a combination of unique employee ID and time? Assuming it takes longer than a second to generate a quote then you would only need the date-time stamp with seconds. You could then encode this as a string in base 36 (all 26 letters and 10 numbers)
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I am unable to install ODP.Net 2 version.
Does anybody have its installation steps
Thanx,
Mini
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Have you looked into their documentation?
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I'm looking at using RDL to define flat file exports, being the sections of the file and the record layout of the sections. It seems quite appropriate as many of the RDL elements already cater for grouping and totalling etc. I would just like a few pointers to resources on generating the RDL and maybe extending it slightly, to cater for fixed length fields etc. if anyone can steer me in the right direction.
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Hi all,
I am newbie here.
My Tech. environment: .Net and Sql Server
Problem:
Manyatimes, we need to return data from different tables in the database to the UI (for example, search results) whose schema wouldnt match with any of the domain objects.
In this case, one option is to transfer the data using the datasets/datatables feature provided by .Net.
The other option I could think of is to create business (DTO?) objects to just pass on the data from the DB to the UI.
I prefer the second approach. However, I need suggestions on how do I implement it? Will this DTO contain a reference of all the domain objects involved or Can I just include only the desired columns?
Or, do we have any other solution?
Thanks in advance,
AGL
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I would suggest a seperate layer for the Data Definition.
passing of Data between the layers is required in almost all the cases. There are two different ways of doing this in .NET. One option you pointed-out.. using Generic Dataset. There is another way of handling this. By using Strongly Typed DataSet. A Typed-Dataset is similar to a Generic Dataset because it is derived from the Dataset class and inherits all the members of a dataset. But the only difference is the Typed dataset is created with the XML Schema representation of the Database Table and the corressponding class file. So it provides type-safe operation and all the methods, properties, events are defined and also it provides an excellent way to access the tables and columns using the names. The only disadvantage of using typed dataset is that it put slightly higher overload on the application.
We can have a seperate layer named DataDefinition and we can have all the database table's in the form of .xsd files which is the XML schema representation of the database tables.
Regards
John
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If you are looking at using an object-oriented data layer then you should read this article[^].
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Hi
What do you recomend to populate custom objects from the database?
Let's say i have a "Product" object, and i have a Products table, each product has a "name", "Id","Stock","Type" etc.
Some times i need to get a couple of products while other times i need a large list of them,
So i build a Singleton "Products" class that has a "GetProduct(id)" method and a private Dictionary of products, each time a product is requested it first check if the product is in the dictionary, and if its not it calls a New Product(id) and add it to the dictionary.
Class Products
Public Shared Function GetProduct(id as integer) as product
if Cache.containskey(id) then return Cache(id)
return new product(id)
end function
End class
Then i have a constructor in the "product" Class that looks like this:
Sub New(id as integer)
Dim Comm as new sqlcommand("Select * from products where id=@id",ConnString)
comm.parameters.addwithvalue("@id",id)
Dim Reader as sqldatareader=comm.executereader
reader.read
idvalue=reader("Id")
Namevalue=reader("Name")
end sub
The problem i think is that when i need to get a large number of products i am making a lot of querys to the database, so i thougt of doing somenthing like this:
Class Product
Private Sub PopulateFromReader(r as datareader)
idvalue=reader("Id")
Namevalue=reader("Name")
end sub
Sub New(r as datareader)
me.PopulateFromReader(r)
end sub
Sub New(id as integer)
Dim Comm as new sqlcommand("Select * from products where id=@id",ConnString)
comm.parameters.addwithvalue("@id",id)
Dim Reader as sqldatareader=comm.executereader
me.PopulateFromReader(r)
end sub
End class
And then in the private constructor of the Singleton "Products" class i do somenthing like this:
Class Products
Private Cache as dictionary(of Integer,Product)
Private Sub New
Dim Comm as new sqlcommand("Select * from products",ConnString)
Dim Reader as sqldatareader=comm.executereader
do while reader.read
Cache.add(reader("id"),new product(reader)
loop
end sub
end class
So, what do you think i should do? is it ok? is there a "Correct" way to do it?
Thanks in advance
PS: Sorry my english!
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You could try the free edition of Diamond Binding by following the link in my signature. This will pretty much do what you are after, without you having to write any code.
If you are really insistant on DIY you could tag all your fields with attributes and then write a templated base class that uses reflection to populate the fields. If you only have a few tables, it will probably be easier to not use a data layer at all to be honest.
What you've written will work, but you'll need to remember to keep your cache up to date when you insert/update records.
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Mark Churchill wrote: If you are really insistant on DIY you could tag all your fields with attributes and then write a templated base class that uses reflection to populate the fields. If you only have a few tables, it will probably be easier to not use a data layer at all to be honest.
You might be interested an article here on CP, the Tale of the Three Monkeys or something like that, basically outlining pros and cons of using hand-written DALs, Reflection generated DALs and thirdly (whole point of the article) generated custom code using Reflection.Emit and DynamicMethods. Just search google with monkey site:codeproject.com and it should be first link.
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Hi
Does anyone know if there is any available (or up coming) seminar about Design Patterns in Europe.(In English language).
Thanks in advance
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I don't know of any, but I can arrange one if you wish.
Upcoming events:
* Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ...
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That sounds like a cracking idea.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Hi Colin
I am very interested to attend such a seminar. Please send me more info on how could i do that
Thanks in advance
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: but I can arrange one if you wish
Now that would be cool.
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I've just been briefed to convert a manual entry counter sales 'application' to use a Posiflex CD2860 barcode scanner, in keyboard wedge mode. Documentation is non-existant except for a PDF listing various setup barcodes. The only means of sending data to the device seems to be by scanning one of these special barcodes.
I would like to somehow only enable the scanner on certain fields etc. and suspect the way to do this is to implement a 'proxy' layer that checks all keyboard input, then hopefully configure the scanner to prefix all codes it sends, and ignore these inputs. It's here that I would like some suggestions, not actually programming the scanner.
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Hi
I developed a website with CSS.It is working fine on IE(IE7).
But when I browse the same thing on Mozilla, some CSS properties like Backgroung image to a Header etc. are not working fine.
So can I switch to CSS between different browsers.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas A. Edison
Thank u
Chandu
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You can - it's a hack, but it is possible:
<!-- [if IE 7]><link rel=...><![endif]--> By the way, this is the wrong forum for this question. It should be on the Web Development forum.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Say you have an interface:
public interface IWidget
{
int Count
{
get;
set;
}
}
Let's pretend that a lot of classes will implement this interface. As a result, each class will have to implement the Count property. The implementation code in each class will be the same, more or less. So it's tempting to do this:
public abstract Widget : IWidget
{
private int count = 0;
public int Count
{
get
{
return count;
}
set
{
count = value;
}
}
}
Now instead of implementing the IWidget interface directly, classes derive from the abstract Widget base class.
Let's say, however, that derived classes need to know when Count changes; they may need to do some house keeping. We could make Count virtual so that derived classes could do this:
public class MyWidget : Widget
{
public override int Count
{
get
{
return base.Count;
}
set
{
base.Count = value;
}
}
}
I've posted about this in the past. I don't like this approach because it seems to introduces an ambiguity. When overriding a virtual method or property, when should you call the base class version? And should the call be at the beginning or at the end of the virtual method or property?
But I'm not really interested in delving into this issue again, though feel free to comment.
The next step is to factor out the Count property into its own class:
public class Counter
{
private int count = 0;
public event EventHandler CountChanged;
public int Count
{
get
{
return count;
}
set
{
if(count < 0)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRange("Count");
}
count = value;
OnCountChanged(EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
}
Instead of Count being a property of the IWidget interface, it becomes an object that is passed to instances of IWidget derived classes. Derived classes hook up to the CountChanged event and do whatever house keeping is necessary when the event is raised.
Counter myCounter = new Counter();
IWidget widget1 = new MyFirstWidget(myCounter);
IWidget widget2 = new MySecondWidget(myCounter);
I need to point out that in the scenario I've described above, instances of classes derived from IWidget will share the same count value and will be treated as a group of objects. So instead of iterating through a group of objects changing the property value on each one, you simply change the value of one object which in turn raises an event to notify its observers.
Instead of:
foreach(IWidget widget in widgets)
{
widget.Count++;
}
You have:
myCounter.Count++;
This post has gotten rather long, but it's been a kind of chronicle of the process I went through. I finally arrived at the point where I factored out properties whose values are shared across several objects into a class of its own. This allows several objects to share the same property. I'm posting this more to get feedback and as a general sanity check.
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Hi Leslie,
I did not completely follow the story here.
Count first was a property, I am not sure what it is intended for.
If it counts the number of IWidgets, I guess you would like to have a private static
count variable, and a public static property; but then interfaces don't allow for
static things. And you would not need a setter, the constructor should be the only
one modifying it.
Now if you attempt to solve the static issue by making an explicit Counter class and object,
that's fine except it de-encapsulates things: you are now responsible for passing
the right counter to each of the Widget constructors.
You could solve that by adding another class I think.
But maybe I misunderstood you and you want something completely different...
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