Month: January 2011

The benefits of SaaS (Software as a Service)

SoftElegance has several projects of the development ‘Software as a Service‘ platforms for wild range of industries e.g. drilling, retail, manufacturing, and so on. Latest months we started to receive RFP’s (Request for Proposal) which contains the requirements: “software architecture should be SaaS model.” or similar to this. So what are the business benefits using SaaS?

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Today we tries do discover what other people think about SaaS architecture. And we would like to represent you Richard Thurston’s, business technology journalist who specialises in networks and telecommunications, “The benefits of SaaS” whiteparer.

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Introducing MonoDroid – a stack for using C# to develop Android-based applications.

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MonoDroid is a development stack for using C# and core .NET APIs to develop Android-based applications.

MonoDroid is an implementation of the Mono Framework and was at the closed beta but in the beginning of 2011 it became in the open beta

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Using ASP.NET MailMessage class with MONO. Troubleshooting

There is an example how to use the MailMessage class in case you are using the ordinary ASP.NET hosting and the difference when you are running your website using MONO technology.

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The MailMessage Class provides properties and methods for constructing an e-mail message. But there are some troubles using it with MONO. See the examples how to avoid this.

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Introduction of the ConfORM – new Object-relational mapping system

Here is the short introduction of the ConfORM, the stand for Configuration ORM, and it was trying to use a lot of heuristic model for identifying entities from C# code. Today, it’s mostly Model First Driven development, so the first thing is to build the entity model. It often used Inversion Engineering here, Database Schema is will create based on recently Entity Model.

Originally I was found the Thang Chung’s article A first look at ConfORM – Part 1. This is a very useful article at it contains the code examples, how to build the Entity Model, Database schemas and some examples of the NHibernate Configuration’s

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