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Orders of Battle Development Progress
September 11, 2009 |
Well, things have been chugging along on the development front for Orders of Battle.
I have now completed the rewrite of the windows client and the middle tier to use LINQ and developed a new LINQ for Entities DLL to replace the old data tier that relied on stored procedures. I have also modified my web site to use LINQ and am busy fixing all the problems so that I can deploy it to the web server very soon.
I have written several Windows Services which manage the flow of data from my client machine to my server databases which use LINQ to query the client database in order to generate outgoing messages, write those messages to file, pass the files up to the server, and update the two databases on the server in turn.
In some cases, I have more than one copy of the same windows service running on a specific machine as they are geared to different databases, which is a little tricky but works OK.
So, all that is left is the completion of the web site and its deployment to my web server.
So, where does that leave us?
Well, that means that I am finally in a situation where I can easily add new screens and pages to both the windows client and the website without (hopefully) having to write major amounts of code at the back end.
There are also other areas of development I want to look at: for example, improving the theme of the website to make it look more professional, using a different database for my client database, building a Wiki to manage my research, implementing reports, implementing some sort of analytics, building a Windows CE client etc etc.
I am also quite interested in learning some other .NET languages such as IronPythor or IronRuby, writing a new implementation of the website to use MVC perhaps.
These are all areas where the website provides me with the opportunity to learn and implement new technologies which is one way of keeping my mind in gear!
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