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Asked: 2026-06-11T17:14:20+00:00

I am working on inventory application (C# .net 4.0) that will simultaneously inventory dozens

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I am working on inventory application (C# .net 4.0) that will simultaneously inventory dozens of workstations and write the results to a central database. To save me having to write a DAL I am thinking of using Fluent NHibernate which I have never used before.

It is safe and good practice to allow the inventory application which runs as a standalone application to talk directly to the database using Nhibernate? Or should I be using a client server model where all access to the database is via a server which then reads/writes to database. In other words if 50 workstations when currently being inventoried there would be 50 active DB sessions. I am thinking of using GUID-Comb for the PK ID’s.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Depending on the environment in which your application will be deployed, you should also consider that direct database connections to a central server might not always be allowed for security reasons.

    Creating a simple REST Service with WCF (using WebServiceHost) and simply POST’ing or PUT’ing your inventory data (using HttpClient) might provide a good alternative.

    As a result, clients can get very simple and can be written for other systems easily (linux? android?) and the server has full control over how and where data is stored.

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