Re: "Restructure a Windows application" from scratch in 2 months

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From: Sahil Malik (contactmethrumyblog_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:39:23 -0500

You've got 2 months - why waste time on UML?

Run VS2005 - reverse engineer the source code.
Run classdesigner - that's your UML replacement (and you don't need any more
than that for a 2 month quickie).

Beta2 will come in Feb 2005 - that comes with a go-live license.

Regards the technical rearchitect of your project - that's a call based on
how much time you truly have - Hard to comment on that sitting thousands of
miles away from u.

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik

"Rajat Tandon" <rajat.tandon@siliconbiztech.com> wrote in message
news:%233lxPfp$EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Please guide me so that I can fulfill this challenging assisnment ...
>
> I have been asked to "Restructure a Windows application" from scratch in 2
> months. The existing application which is working but it is very heavy as
> no
> proper application architecture and layering has been followed for this.
> It
> was really hard to maintain (as I was maintaing it till now) .
>
> First let me tell u a bit about my application ...
>
> This appliction uses Window forms UI with a lot of panels put one on the
> top
> of other.There are few separate forms for login etc. This UI interact with
> webservices to get the data from our database and show in turn on UI.
> Three
> Windows services are updating our database from some other remote database
> after regular interval. So in this way we keep our database updated with
> real data. Thus client UI don't has to wait for long to get the real time
> data directly from the original source.We are currently deploying the
> Client
> UI from web and using C# as language.
>
> Being new to dotnet technology, I don't know how to start with this. Some
> of
> the facts/questions that are coming to my mind after studying my
> application
> and the concepts ...
>
> 1.
> There is a lot of hype and demand about UML Tools like "Rational Rose"
> etc.
> I want to use it to redevelop my application.
> 2.
> Microsoft recommends the "Application pattern and practices" to design the
> application. I am presently going through the following topics ...
>
> .NET Data Access Architecture Guide
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/daag.asp
> Desinging Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/BOAGag.asp
> Although these are very good resources but these are very vast and taking
> a
> lot of time. Sometimes I am not able to follow these articles as I don't
> have extensive experience.
>
> Could you please point me towards 1 or 2 sample applications of "Similar
> Kind" (Preferably with Full UML diagrams/documents) with of course easy to
> understand documentation and source code, so that I have the practical
> view
> of "Microsoft Pattern and Practices" and I can instantly follow them. It
> would be better if these applications are not very complex and yet inclue
> the layering concept as well as the usage of all technologies -Web
> Services,Windows Services,UI,SQL Server connectivity etc.
> 3.
> What is the best way to use Panels/Forms. Is it good to show multiple
> panels
> on the same form and when needed use visible for 1 panel and invisible for
> multiple panels or use multiple forms? And why the respective practice is
> used?
>
> Thank you for all of your patience to go through such a long mail. Please
> advise me the best way to go about it keeping in mind the time constraint
> of
> 2 months.
>
> Thanking you in advance,
>
> Regards,
> Rajat Tandon.
>
>

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