Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
It has been a couple weeks since my last post. As with many juggling family, career, socializing and hobbies can be quite a circus act. Nonetheless, the DBinsor solution has not yet reached a critical mass for usability.
It is great that one can pull the configuration from the database, but how does one put it there in the first place. Moreover, this process of insertion should be intuitive as well as allow for a holistic view of the data.
The end user of choice for DBinsor would be a system which utilized a plug in methodology meshed with a SOA topology. More specifically, one who utilizes services contracts where the implementation is defined by configuration settings. Thus utilizing DBinsor as a centralized configuration store should be quite appealing.
With this type of user in mind, a web user interface is the only sensible approach. For example, an administrator could seamlessly change configurations of any service from any computer with accessibility to the DBinsor server without installing a windows client.
We could have chosen web forms or the new model view controller framework; however Silverlight 2.0 seems the most intriguing. Moreover, we get the chance to work with XAML instead of HTML and Java Script. The “Learn” section has been quite helpful in the process of learning Silverlight.
We will post something once we have basic functionality working.