Splashers Geekify

Team Monks (to be re-christened soon) will be handling the next Splashers geekify session. The topic is stated above. The links below present the necesary pre-requisites for next week:

Model View Controller (MVC) Using C#, Delegates and Events in .NET
MVC in Asp.Net 2.0
Model view controller
Microsoft Word Like Object Model

You will see why we should never write code the conventional way after this. Gym up guys, it promises to be a tough session.

Intro:
Relius Conduit is a small application that synchronises data in an exchange contacts folder (“Relius/People”) and an Sql Server database.

After a short review, we came up with a couple of "concerns"

1. 
   Product version: This was hard coded on the command line. The AssemblyInfo.cs file holds version info. A direct reference could not be made to the version info but an indirect way of doing this will be creating a reference to System.Windows.Forms. After this, developers will be able to make calls to Application.ProductVersion.
   


2. 
   Connection polling, Extensive use of DataReader. A DataReader requires an open connection; instances exist where an SqlDataReader was opened while another was still open. A solution would be using DataTables in this situation and in the particular case of Relius Exchange; a disconnected Dataset will be very appropriate.
   


3. 
   Hard coded values in code e.g. "Relius/People", Configuration files exist for situations like this..
   


4. 
   Very large numbers imput parameter to a function,
   
   e.g. ret = x.CreateContactInPublicSubfolder("Relius/People", person["ID"].ToString(), person["FRIENDLYNAME"].ToString(), person["TITLE"].ToString(), person["ORGANIZATION"].ToString(), person["TELEPHONENUMBER"].ToString(), person["HOMEPHONE"].ToString(), person["FAXNUMBER"].ToString(), person["STREET"].ToString(), person["CITY"].ToString(), person["STATE"].ToString(), person["POSTALCODE"].ToString(), person["COUNTRY"].ToString(), person["HOMESTREET"].ToString(), person["HOMECITY"].ToString(), person["HOMESTATE"].ToString(), person["HOMEPOSTALCODE"].ToString(), person["HOMECOUNTRY"].ToString(), person["EMAIL1"].ToString(), person["EMAIL2"].ToString(), person["DEPARTMENT"].ToString(), person["PROFESSION"].ToString(), DateTime.MinValue, person["TEXTDESCRIPTION"].ToString(), true);
   
   Passing structs and classes will suffice
   
   

Upnext is PG (Pivotal G, not parental guardian :) ) team on some sazzy web stuff...Effectively using divs/css and eliminating table Kung-fus in web page designs.