Thursday, June 04, 2009
.NET Stock Trader 2.04 up and running!
Got the application up and running yesterday on one application/web server and successfully ran the source code (WPF client) from another machine and all worked fine!
Had a little trouble running the "Trade Services Benchmark", was getting some exceptions thrown one relating to an unkown user and one other which I can't remember right now:(
Also had a trawl through some of the source code....in some respects it was much simpler code than I expected in terms of the data model and the services provided. Some things were hard coded when you'd normally expect them not to be (indexes when pulling data of a reader) but I guess since this stuff is to be benchmark then gone for whatever executes the quickest...
Firstly I'm going to try and get another application/web server up and running and configured if my poor old Dell Precision Workstation 450 will cope (it's already running 3 x VM's, a domain controller, a SQL Server 2008 instance and one Stock Trader server) !! The workstation seems to be struggling a little more than I expected but it's only got 3GB memory so I can't expect too much! Got distracted yesterday and wondered over to Overclockers and drooled over a nice shiny Ultima Vanquish which happens to be on offer this week:) First though I need to figure out how to configure the extra server via the Configuration Service before I go to the trouble of building a new VM...
Secondly I'm gonna see if I can at least start coding up a simple application using a similar architecture to Stock Trader, suspect this might take a few days to get going at least but at least it's good practice and a I find I understand things much better by getting my hands dirty:)
Had a little trouble running the "Trade Services Benchmark", was getting some exceptions thrown one relating to an unkown user and one other which I can't remember right now:(
Also had a trawl through some of the source code....in some respects it was much simpler code than I expected in terms of the data model and the services provided. Some things were hard coded when you'd normally expect them not to be (indexes when pulling data of a reader) but I guess since this stuff is to be benchmark then gone for whatever executes the quickest...
Firstly I'm going to try and get another application/web server up and running and configured if my poor old Dell Precision Workstation 450 will cope (it's already running 3 x VM's, a domain controller, a SQL Server 2008 instance and one Stock Trader server) !! The workstation seems to be struggling a little more than I expected but it's only got 3GB memory so I can't expect too much! Got distracted yesterday and wondered over to Overclockers and drooled over a nice shiny Ultima Vanquish which happens to be on offer this week:) First though I need to figure out how to configure the extra server via the Configuration Service before I go to the trouble of building a new VM...
Secondly I'm gonna see if I can at least start coding up a simple application using a similar architecture to Stock Trader, suspect this might take a few days to get going at least but at least it's good practice and a I find I understand things much better by getting my hands dirty:)
