WinForms App Data Caching - In Which Layer To Cache
Feb 27, 2009
We have data that's updated nightly in a database residing in the same instance as my app's database. So to save on database calls, I want to cache this static-for-the-day data into a List(Of MyObject). From a theory point of view, should this cached List(Of ) be cached in the presentation layer code, via a global variable? Should it be in a global variable in the .DLL?I'm thinking in the .DLL, because I created a service layer, which is exposed publicly to the GUI and makes calls to the data access layer inside the .DLL:
Public Shared Function Search(ByVal criteria As Core.Other.Customer) As List(Of Core.Other.Customer)
' TODO: Check the customer cache to see if it has been populated yet. If not, populate it.
If 1 = 1 Then
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Nov 19, 2011
I'm making a webbrowser for the pc's on my school, but I want to clear cache & clear cookies everythime someone exit's the webbrowser. Is there a simple code for it?
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Feb 7, 2011
I am generally following this tutorial, the main differences being I'm using 2008 R2 Express and Windows Forms, he is using 2005 & ASP.NET Web Site:'m building a minimalist Windows Form project for learning purposes. So I'm using a 1-table database with 2 columns, ContactID & Name. I added a dataset file, 'ContactsDataSet.xsd' to my project and added a single minimalist table adapter with just a fill() & getdata() method.Then I added a DataGridView control and connected it to the ContactsDataSet to confirm it was working and that worked fine. I ran it and it filled up with data as expected. Everything up to this point was auto-generated code.
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Jul 26, 2009
I am trying to prototype an application with a data layer on my computer at home using Visual Basic 2008 express edition with SQL Server Compact 3.5. My production situation at work is SQL Server 2000 and I am using Visual Basic 2005 professional for development.I am trying to write the code to create a seperate data layer. Here is my code. First the data layer:
Imports
System.Data
Imports[code].....
My Problem is that the data does not show up in the text boxes.
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Jan 8, 2010
I'm pulling data from a Lotus Notes database, this works fine but when I change the data and pull it again, it doesn't take the changes, a restart solves this so it must be getting cached somewhere, how do I prevent it?[code]...
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Jul 27, 2009
Is it possible to cache dataset which is accessible globally.Example: One windows service creates a dataset and caches it.Another Web Application and Windows application references that cache and populates in datagrid.
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Nov 30, 2010
I am working in VB.NET defining my own classes. I have 5 classes, Policy, Coverage, CoverageCollection, Layer, and LayerCollection. Policy has a bunch of data items, one of which is of type CoverageCollection. Coverage has a bunch of data items, one of which is of type LayerCollection.
Policy
private id as Long
private name as String[code].....
Then I do like "dim p as Policy". So, iIn order to get to properties on a Layer, I reference it like p.cov(0).lyr(0).face. What I am trying to do is add a readonly property to Layer that is calculated using some Layer information but also using something from Coverage (or even Policy). I can take this in as a parameter to the property, but I think there should be a way to get at Coverage/Policy information since I am "under" it already. Is there a way to do this?
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Oct 5, 2009
A quick question on caching dataset objects. How can I know if the data is changed in Sql when caching data? I don't want to specify time constraints but used a strategy where data is changed in sql and I have to refresh my cache?
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm using interop.msxml2.dll to open XML and txt files off an Internet server. The response that is received from the server is stored in my application's variables. I've recently noticed that the application doesn't always update the information when it goes to download a file that it has already downloaded in the past. For example, if it downloaded a file off the server when it started up, then when it attempted to download the new, changed file 5 minutes later, it would still return the same value as the first one. Even after closing the application, it would still return the incorrect, older value. How to stop this "caching" of data, and only allow the program to download the latest file off the server.
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May 10, 2011
- I'm working on a windows forms application (.NET 4.0). - My form contains a 'Fast Line' chart using the Microsoft chart control included in VS2010. - The chart gets filled with about 20,000 datapoints. - My application then starts receiving market data from a server via DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) in real-time and adds it the chart.
Note: I have no control over the server and so I have to deal with DDE only even though it's an outdated technology. VS doesn't support DDE anymore and so I use the Ndde library which works like a charm.
Private Sub StartDDE()
'first we connect to the DDE server:
Dim client As DdeClient = New DdeClient("ServerApplication", "Bid")
[Code].....
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Jul 11, 2009
I have the following code in my config.vb file in app folder and almost all of my pages use this code for permormance issues i need to have it cached for exp use cache.insert to cache each property How should i use caching?
BR>Public Class Config
Private _physicalPath As String
Public Property physicalPath() As String
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Jul 25, 2011
I've never used a List(Of) before and I'm not sure how to pass it to the Data Layer of my application. The ColResCategory is a property within the Business Layer (See below) and it needs to be passed to the Data Layer. ReplaceResCategory (See 2nd Code view) is another class file within my Business Layer and the ColResCategory references it.
Public Property ColResCategory() As List(Of ReplaceResCategory)
Get
If IsNothing(mColResCategory) Then
mColResCategory = New List(Of ReplaceResCategory)
End If
Return mColResCategory
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Feb 19, 2011
I'm creating a Data Layer for a Web Application and in one of my functions, I need to pass in a Structure full of Customer info. This Data Layer is essentially a DLL. My problem is that I'm not sure how to do this.Below is my code and what I want to do.
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May 22, 2009
I am putting some heavy though into re-writing the data access layer in my software(If you could even call it that). This was really my first project that uses, and things were done in an improper manner. In my project all of the data that is being pulled is being stored in an arraylist. some of the data is converted from the arraylist into an typed object, before being put backinto an arraylist.Also, there is no central set of queries in the application.This means that some queries are copy and pasted, which I want to eliminate as well.This application has some custom objects that are very standard to the application, and some queries that are very standard to those objects.
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Feb 20, 2009
I am implementing a Data Access Layer (DAL), which is basically a set of classes with (VB.NET) Shared functions to actually execute the database (CRUD) calls. I am trying to figure out the best place to place the calls to the DAL within the class hierarchy. Let me give an example.Suppose I have a class Customer, with only standard ID, Name, Address1, etc. properties and maybe an overridden ToString function or so. I also have a DAL class with Shared methods, such as:[code]Would this be "cleaner" OOP? Or is it acceptable practice to let the presentation call the Dal, passing the business objects like my previous example:[code]
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Jan 14, 2009
I'm working on a windows forms application (.NET 4.0).My form contains a 'Fast Line' chart using the Microsoft chart control included in VS2010.The chart gets filled with about 20,000 datapoints.My application then starts receiving market data from a server via DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) in real-time and adds it the chart.
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Mar 25, 2010
I'm creating an occasionally connected application with a local (client) .sdf data cache. I added a new table to my server database and want to include this table in my local data cache and synchronization. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Mar 23, 2010
Im experiencing some problems while attempting to read a connection string from an App.config file in my Data Access Layer.I added the App.Config to the DAL Class Library, and added my connection string to the connectionStrings section but when I try to read it from my DAL its Returing Nothing.
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May 28, 2009
Need a SQL Server "SQLClient" (VB) Data Layer Class?
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Oct 1, 2009
One of the time consuming factors of writing the DAL is adding and assigning paramters of teh stored procedure if ther are more than 10 parameters and must link more than 3 tables this process will take a horrible amount of time..
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Mar 1, 2010
Im writing a data access layer for my application.There are several functions that need to return a list of items like Employee Name, and EmployeeID so it can be bound to a dropdownlist.What would be the proper datatype to return, a Dictionary?The lists only contain 2 columns, a name and id.
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Jun 3, 2010
I have the following VB.NET code to set and read objects in cache on a per user basis (i.e. a bit like session)
Public Shared Sub CacheSet(ByVal Key As String, ByVal Value As Object)
Dim userID As String = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name
HttpContext.Current.Cache(Key & "_" & userID) = Value
End Sub
[Code]....
I use these functions to hold user data that I don't want to access the DB for all the time. However, when the data is updated, I want the cached item to be removed so it get created again.
How do I make an Item I set disappear or set it to NOTHING or NULL?
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May 19, 2009
We are developing this system that's constantly connecting and retrieving records in our Sql Server 2000 database. The problem is. is that when the database is down we can't use the system. So we are tasked to modify the system to have offline access feature without data replication rather making a xml cache or any flat file data cache.
My question is, what is the most optimized way to make this work?
BTW, the offline data should be synchronized when the server gets online.
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Mar 14, 2012
If you want to go to [url]... there is a tutorial about Luna, a vb.net code generator for data Layer of application
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Jan 15, 2010
I typically dont create interfaces unless i have to, however in my current application i have to create interfaces in the Data access layer. I'm a in a minor confusion that hwo do i create those interfaces more how to implement them: the following code might make things clear:I have the following class and interface in the data access namespace
[code="vb"]Imports ConsoleApplication8.BusinessLayerImports ConsoleApplication8.DataAccessLayerImports System.DataImports System
Namespace DataAccessLayer
Public Class CountryGateway Implements ICountryGateway
[code]....
1. Is this way implement the interface in the data access layer? (in this case the class CountryGateway access the database.)
2. I have been told that we should create interfaces than abstract classes espcially in the data access layer, is there a particular reason for this?
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Oct 1, 2010
Our application uses a custom DataAccessLayer class almost exclusively, and within that we do use Data Access Application Block (currently version 2). We are getting the infamous "GetOrdinal" error sporadically. We are not using out-of-method connections. We are using DAAB version 2. Below is a typical example of our DAL methods:
Public Function MyDALMethod(ByVal Param1 As Integer, ByVal Param2 As Integer) As System.Data.IDataReader
Dim db As Database = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase()
[Code].....
My main question is should these DAL references be disposed somehow? It's a custom class written in VB.NET, so it doesn't implement IDisposable so I'm not sure if there's anything to be done or not, but we do have errors and issues (like the GetOrdinal problem) which seem to be load-related, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem.
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Dec 4, 2009
I am a fairly rookie programmer who is trying to learn the basics of n-layered architecture (DAL, BLL, UI). The application I am programming is a single tier, 3-layer application written in VB.NET (.Net 3.5). Layers as follows:
DAL
BLL
UI
COMMON - contains DTO's right now.
I am having trouble determining what to pass between my BLL and UI. My instinct tells me that I should only pass data to the UI, and not the full business object from the BLL. Consider two scenarios:
1) Pass the BO directly from BLL to UI. This exposes BO methods and allows the UI direct access to the BO, which seems bad.
2) Pass only the pertinent data from the BO to the UI. For instance, a customer has a Name and Address. This data is really what we want to show/edit in the UI, so we would only return that data to the UI instead of the full BO. The UI would then call to the BLL to update a specific BO.
I am inclined to use #2, but I don't know the best way to implement it. The way I have it programmed now, if I only return data from the BLL, all references to my BO's will be lost and the GC will claim them. Based on this, I have some questions:
1) Should I keep business objects alive between calls to the BLL? The alternative is to re-create them every time I pass data through the BLL, which seems wrong.
2) What is the best way to keep a BO alive in a single tier architecture (how to hold a reference if we dont pass it to the UI?)
3) How do n-tier applications do this? Do they keep the BO's alive in the BLL and wait for an update from the UI? Doesn't this require a lot of "book keeping" in the BLL to make sure BO's are released when they are no longer needed?
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Aug 27, 2009
I am using Oracle 11g client, with ODP.NET. I am trying to add conditional Transaction handling.
Dim ds As New DataSet()
Dim txn As OracleTransaction
Dim _beginTransaction as Bolean = true
Using conn As New OracleConnection(ConnString)
[Code]...
How do I fix txn being nothing / null? The error is: Variable 'txn' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime. Edit: to RichardOD for pointing out that you can not explicitly declare that a transaction cannot be opend up on stored procedures via ODP.NET. I have verified that this is an issue. BUT We still haven't figured out why the error is occuring. I understand that txn is initially given a value w/in an if statement, but being defined outside of the try/catch block should make that irrelevant.... right? Or is that bad coding?
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May 28, 2009
What are good things to check for, with respect to error-handling, when you are dealing with the data-access-layer? For example, let's assume I have this function..
Public Function UserExists(ByVal userName As String) As DataTable
Dim dt As Object = Nothing
Dim arSqlParameters(0) As SqlParameter
[code]....
How would you go about ensuring that your code elegantly handles anything unexpected in a situation like this?
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Jan 23, 2012
I have programme which contains two list box. when exe is launched it retrieves data from web references [from web services] and immidially it creates folder of cache so when next time exe. is launched it displays data so fast in listboxes. and if cache folder is deleted and exe. is again launched it takes some time to retreave data and again it create cache folder.. how can be this done. if i wish to added controls in cache
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