Advice required

[jk]

Hi there,

I'm a very experienced developer but relative new to ASP.NET (not exactly a
novice but still feeling my way around). I'm about to start development of a
new (commercial) web site and would like to know what technology I should be
pursuing. The site will provide a front-end for users who will log on, input
data, generate reports, etc. (lots of web forms and controls involved with
all this). Everything is captured at the back-end in a SQL Server DB. Can
anyone enlighten me on what technology I should be investigating. Should I
be looking at WPF for instance or stick with the tried and true ways I've
been reading about (using standard web controls bound to my business objects
using "ObjectDataSource" controls and ultimately invoking strongly-typed
datasets to update the DB). I'm fairly green in the latter area (though find
it very easy so far) and have no WPF experience whatsoever so I'm not sure
where these technologies diverge, whether they're completely different, etc.
I just need some guidance on what technology and design patterns I should be
pursuing. Presumably it boils down to WPF versus the older ways of doing
things but maybe someone can set me straight. Thanks in advance.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Hi there,

I'm a very experienced developer but relative new to ASP.NET (not exactly
a novice but still feeling my way around). I'm about to start development
of a new (commercial) web site and would like to know what technology I
should be pursuing. The site will provide a front-end for users who will
log on, input data, generate reports, etc. (lots of web forms and controls
involved with all this). Everything is captured at the back-end in a SQL
Server DB. Can anyone enlighten me on what technology I should be
investigating. Should I be looking at WPF for instance or stick with the
tried and true ways I've been reading about (using standard web controls
bound to my business objects using "ObjectDataSource" controls and
ultimately invoking strongly-typed datasets to update the DB). I'm fairly
green in the latter area (though find it very easy so far) and have no WPF
experience whatsoever so I'm not sure where these technologies diverge,
whether they're completely different, etc. I just need some guidance on
what technology and design patterns I should be pursuing. Presumably it
boils down to WPF versus the older ways of doing things but maybe someone
can set me straight. Thanks in advance.

1) Model View Presenter pattern

2) Windows Communications Web service with BLL and DAL setting behind the
WCF Web service, with business objects sent to the UI as DTO(s) -- Data
Transfer Objects, and those DTO(s) sent back to the WCF, with them becoming
business objects again persisting themselves to the database via the DAL.

3) ORM solution such as ADO.NET Entity Framework with Linq-2-Entities,
nHibernate or Link-2-SQL

4) Ajax with possible Telerik controls and standard controls

6) Light or no validation of user input at the UI, letting Windows Workflow
validate business objects by object injection into a validation Workflow.
Workflow is setting behind the WCF Web service on an application server
that's hosting BLL, DAL and WF.

7) Disable viewstate on all UI controls.

8) Domain Driven Design pattern against the Model

9) Test Driven Design pattern against the Model using functional tests to
test the entire backend before one even gets to the UI, with tools such as
Reshapper, Gallio and MBunit. The same tools can be used for Unit Test
mock-ups as well.

10) The ability to understand and use Linq.






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[jk]

1) Model View Presenter pattern

2) Windows Communications Web service with BLL and DAL setting behind the
WCF Web service, with business objects sent to the UI as DTO(s) -- Data
Transfer Objects, and those DTO(s) sent back to the WCF, with them
becoming business objects again persisting themselves to the database via
the DAL.

3) ORM solution such as ADO.NET Entity Framework with Linq-2-Entities,
nHibernate or Link-2-SQL

4) Ajax with possible Telerik controls and standard controls

6) Light or no validation of user input at the UI, letting Windows
Workflow validate business objects by object injection into a validation
Workflow. Workflow is setting behind the WCF Web service on an application
server that's hosting BLL, DAL and WF.

7) Disable viewstate on all UI controls.

8) Domain Driven Design pattern against the Model

9) Test Driven Design pattern against the Model using functional tests to
test the entire backend before one even gets to the UI, with tools such as
Reshapper, Gallio and MBunit. The same tools can be used for Unit Test
mock-ups as well.

10) The ability to understand and use Linq.

Thanks for the info. I'll do some research on these items but what would you
personally be looking at (ignoring any learning curve). What's best for the
future IOW (in your opinion) but also consider that we need to get our site
done without countless problems due to lack of documentation and/or because
the technology is still too immature to proceed with. Thanks again.

 

[jk]

Thanks for your advice. I'll be considering it carefully and looking at some
of your suggestions in greater detail. Appreciated