Is there an architecture discussion forum on here?  If not, there should be!  It would be great to be able to discuss the pros and cons of different implementations of a solution for different targets and environments.  Code-wise generally you get to know how to solve something, ...

  I am using a chating  application in which Server is Console based application and Client is Windows Based Application,when i am running both server aznd Client same System  it's working Fine but when i am putting Client and Server on different system's the i am getting below ...

I have created an application and when the application is started it checkes
for an update to the software on a web service.  All the implementation
works great but now I am trying to figure out how to make the application
setup project function the way I need it to.  How do I make ...

hi,  
 I have a Windows Client Application which gets Video Streams from
the server. I want to visually represent how much of Bandwidth the
user is currently using. How to find the Bandwidth used at anytime?

 I have one question to handled exception in layered acchitecture.
 We develop app. using BL layer / DAL layer and UI Layer. My question is, In which layer error is occured? how come i know?
 Bcz i handled exception in DAL and BL so if error is occured in DAL is it overwrite by ...

I want to develop a client which only connects to a server in order to
synchronize data.  The idea is that the user will see a smaller view of the
whole database (only items relevant to themself) and may then add new items,
update, delete, etc.  Eventually connecting to a middle ...

I've been reading "Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services"
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp
which to my mind reconfirms the good practice I have come across from other sources, such as "Patterns of Enterprise ...

I working on a multilayered enterprise application with Data Access layer
and Transaction Manager Layer.
I am using the SqlHelper.UpdateDataset in MS Data Access Application Block
to update the dataset.

The app.config for application updater needs a specific folder name to
specify where to find the appStart and where to save the log file, but
these infomation would not know until after user installed the
application. Does anyone know how to set the folder as what user chose

I need to make a web site that wait for 3 asyschronous processes to finish.
So I am considering these options
1) Poll the status of the processes from the web page using the REFRESH
metatag in HTML.

I need help deciding the best IPC mechanism to communicate between a
legacy C++ app (dealing with telephony) and other Top level
applications that would call the API functions. Both of these
applications would "always" reside on the same system.

Just a general question about client / server application design.  Is there a pattern / template etc for developing a client server application such as a real time network game? (obviously only a small one :)

I am looking for ADO.Net data access utilities for both
MySQL and SQL Server. Does anyone use it for
MySQL also?

I have recently developed a small application with VB.net.
What I wish to do is to add an uninstaller to the application that the user can use
to uninstall my application instead of having to use the windows control panel.
Can someone please show me how to do this iin VB.net?

I am trying to get a MDI going in the UIP.
Have set the IsMdiContainer property to true in the MainForm.
On a tree view in main form I have following  method.
private void tvMain_DoubleClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)