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• Boolean 'NOT' in T-SQL not working on 'bit' datatype?

  - by Joannes Vermorel

  Trying to perform a single boolean NOT operation, it appears that under MS SQL Server 2005, the following block does not work DECLARE @MyBoolean bit; SET @MyBoolean = 0; SET @MyBoolean = NOT @MyBoolean; SELECT @MyBoolean; Instead, I am getting more successful with DECLARE @MyBoolean bit; SET @MyBoolean = 0; SET @MyBoolean = 1 - @MyBoolean; SELECT @MyBoolean; Yet, this looks a bit a twisted way to express something as simple as a negation. Am I missing something?

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• C# WMI Eventwatcher code stopped working on Windows 7 with security exception

  - by Flores

  This is code that worked fine on Windows XP for years. User is not local administrator. WqlEventQuery query = new WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStopTrace"); ConnectionOptions co = new ConnectionOptions(); co.EnablePrivileges = true; ManagementEventWatcher watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher(new ManagementScope(@"root\cimv2",co), query); watcher.EventArrived += StopEventArrived; watcher.Start(); This throws an SecurityException on Windows 7, Access Denied when running as a non admin. On XP this works fine without being admin. On this link MS states that 'Windows 7: Low-integrity users have read-only permissions for local WMI operations.'. I guess this is the problem. But I can't find any clue on how to change this.

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• Is there ever a reason to use Goto in modern .NET code?

  - by BenAlabaster

  I just found this code in reflector in the .NET base libraries... if (this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression != null) { this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression = this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression.Trim(); if (this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression.Length == 0) { goto Label_016C; } try { new Regex(this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression); goto Label_016C; } catch (ArgumentException exception) { throw new ProviderException(exception.Message, exception); } } this._PasswordStrengthRegularExpression = string.Empty; Label_016C: ... //Other stuff I've heard all of the "thou shalt not use goto on fear of exile to hell for eternity" spiel. I always held MS coders in fairly high regard and while I may not have agreed with all of their decisions, I always respected their reasoning. So - is there a good reason for code like this that I'm missing, or was this code extract just put together by a shitty developer? I'm hoping there is a good reason, and I'm just blindly missing it. Thanks for everyone's input

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• Why is VB so popular? [closed]

  - by aaaidan

  To me, Visual Basic seems clumsy, ugly, error-prone, and difficult to read. I'll let others explain why. While VB.net has clearly been a huge leap forward for the language in terms of features, I still don't understand why anyone would choose to code in VB over, say, C#. However, I still see (what seems to be) the vast majority of commercial web apps from "MS shops" are built in VB. I could stand corrected on this, but VB still seems more popular than it deserves. Can anyone help answer any (or all) of these questions: Am I missing something with VB? Is it easier to learn, or "friendlier" than C#? Are there features I don't know about? Why is VB/VB.net so frequently used today, especially in web projects?

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• Hook Response.Cache to memcache

  - by dvr

  Has anyone done this before? I have a 32 bit win 2003 server running 2.0 and have read the ms engineers' blog about min(60%, 1800mb) for cache limits and our site (asp.net 2.0 / 3.5) is caching alot. It throws system outofmemory exceptions when wp is around 1.3gb (unfortunately it is the 2.0 apps) and I would like to push alot over to memcache but worried that at the moment the site is efficient using response.cache as is (though memory is an issue). I want to move most items over to memcache and have concerns on a – how to do this (implementation of response.cache to read/write from memcache) and b – what will performance be like? Before I commit to doing this and possibly spending a few days running tests I would like to hear from you if this has been done already and get some feedback. (and please don’t tell me to buy a x64 machine – I have already requested this!), by the way I ran a test requesting a single image 1000 times and response.cache was over 50% quicker than using application cache. Does response.cache bypass the page lifecycle?

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• Does JSON.js cause conflicts with Sys.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.serialize

  - by David Robbins

  I am using Telerik controls in my webforms and want to serialize object on the client. Since I am getting a stackoverflow error with Sys.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.deserialize I wanted to try JSON. With both JSON and and the MS library I get "Sys.Application is undefined." Has anyone encountered this what did you do as a work around? EDIT I am serializing my object on a parent page and passing them via an argument to a child window. The child window is in an IFRAME tag. The object can be used in the child page, but I receive the stackoverflow error when I serialize it. The object is an Array of objects.

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• Joomla to Drupal migration problem

  - by Gok Demir

  AFter migrating a joomla 1.5 site to Drupal 6 by using Joomla to Drupal module. While importing I ticked full HTML. Now some of the pages have are annoying codes as shown below: Normal 0 21 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99" LatentStyleCount="267"> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/> UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/> I think they are copied and pasted from MS Word. How could I fix these? Thanks

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• Developing a GPS car tracking system

  - by Click Ok

  I'm in the brainstorming phase to develop a GPS car tracking system requested by a customer. I myself know the directions to build some GPS system to mobile phones and etc. But sincerely I don't know how to start in that project. That is the scenario: 1) The cars will get a device with a SIM CARD that will emit GPS signals. 2) My customer will in any place (home, work, etc) with a web connection will see in the map where the car is located. For me, I have not problems at get the GPS data, convert to usable info and show the position in some map system (like Google Maps or MS Bing Maps, by example). My problem is, how I do to retrieve that "GPS Signal" from device in the car? I will need some kind of "Receiver Device" connected to a web server machine in order to my application to consume that data? Or "automagically" my sodtware will receive the info from a third-party web-service? Or what?

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• Global WH_CBT hook DLL is loaded into some processes only

  - by kriau

  The main program calls the function SetHook in the wi.dll to install global WH_CBT hook. bool WI_API SetHook() { if (!g_hHook) { g_hHook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_CBT, (HOOKPROC) CBTProc, g_hInstDll, 0); } return g_hHook != NULL; } I presume after installing global hook, wi.dll should be loaded into each process' address space. However wi.dll is loaded in to some processes only. For example, if I start Skype, MS Word I can see that wi.dll is loaded into these processes as well (using Process Explorer), however if I run Firefox, uTorrent, Adobe Reader then wi.dll is not loaded into these processes. I'm using W7 64-bit, main program and wi.dll is 32-bit, all programs mentioned here is 32-bit programs as well. Any ideas why that happens? Thanks in advance.

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• Delphi 7 : how to split a string into a TStringList

  - by mawg

  It's Delphi seven and I want the equivalent of strtok(). Specifically, I have a DFM as a string (pulled from a MySql database) and I want to split it into lines in a TStringList. It looks something like this ... 'Oject Form1: TScriptForm'#$D#$A' Left = 0'#$D#$A' Top = 0'#$D#$A' Align = alClient'#$D#$A' BorderStyle = bsNone'#$D#$A' ClientHeight = 517'#$D#$A' ClientWidth = 993'#$D#$A' Color = clBtnFace'#$D#$A' Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET'#$D#$A' Font.Color = clWindowText'#$D#$A' Font.Height = -11'#$D#$A' Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif''#$D#$A' Font.Style = []'#$D#$A' OldCreateOrder = False'#$D#$A' SaveProps.Strings = ('#$D#$A' 'Visible=False')'#$D#$A' PixelsPerInch = 96'#$D#$A' TextHeight = 13'#$D#$A'

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• Word mergefield wildcard not correctly matching

  - by aZn137

  Hello, Below is my mergefield code: { IF { MERGEFIELD Subs_State } = "GA" "blah blah" "{ IF { MERGEFIELD CEOrgStates } = "GA" "blah blah" ""} "} I'm pulling records from a MS Access db. My goal is to check whether a record has Subs_State field matching "GA", or the CEOrgStates has the word "GA" (some records have stuff like "|FL|CA|GA|CT|KY|" (no quotes)). When I merged the docs, Word doesnt seem to be able to match with the wildcards: If I use and compare "*GA" (fields ending with GA), it works; however, the double wildcards "*GA*" dont seem to work at all. Here are the things I’ve tried: Have data in lowercase, then compare with lowercase Have data in lowercase, convert to and then compare with uppercase Do the opposite of the above 2 with uppercase data Use “*GA*” and “*ga*” (no pipe) Use different delimiters Nothing seems to work with the double wildcard matching. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

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• Sharepoint and SQL server Endpoint

  - by Usman Ahmad

  I created a LinkedServer on MS SQL Server 2005 pointing to my Active Directory. Nothing too fancy. Simple LinkedServer with ReadOnlyAdmin Account assigned to CONNECTAS Property. Then I created some storedprocedures to retreive some data from the LinkedServer. Again nothing too fancy. Just a few simple LDAP Queries. Then I created a SQL Endpoint to expose these stored procedures as Web services. Using Visual Studio 2008, everything is fine and dandy. It finds the endpoint, gets the list of the methods available and runs smoothly. Cool. But the Sharpeoint Add Web Service somehow doesn't work! It finds the WSDL file no prob. Retrieves the list of functions and parameterss n all but just simply doesn't run them! Any advice or where I should start checking?

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• When to use AsyncOperation and AsyncOperationManager

  - by Sir Psycho

  Hi, I've spent many many hours tonight reading up on implementing the event-based asynchronous pattern Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any articles at all on witting a class that only supports one Async invocation. Every example I've seen assumes that a method call will be called more than once and thus, should have a userState object passed into the MethodNameAsync You'll see that MS makes mention of this in the third bullet point on this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228974(VS.80).aspx under the "Simultaneously Executing Operations" heading. But I'm confused. Should I be using AsyncOperation and AsyncOperationManager classes to have asynchronous functionality where a method can only be called by one thread at a time? A link would also be nice :) Thanks

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• SVM in OpenCV: Visual Studio 2008 reported error wrongly (or is it right?)

  - by Risa

  I'm using MS Visual Studio 2008, OpenCV, C++ and SVM for a OCR-related project. At least I can run the code until yesterday, when I open the project to continue working, VS reported this error: error C2664: 'bool CvSVM::train(const CvMat *,const CvMat *,const CvMat *,const CvMat *,CvSVMParams)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'cv::Mat' to 'const CvMat *' It didn't happen before and I haven't changed any code relating to it (I only changed the parameters for the kernel). The code got error is: Mat curTrainData, curTrainLabel; CvSVM svm; . . . svm.train(curTrainData, curTrainLabel, Mat(), Mat(), params); If I hover on the code, I still got this tip: image. Which means my syntax isn't wrong. So why do VS bother to report such an error?

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• How to get multi row data of one column to one row of one Column

  - by Pyi Soe Maw

  Hi friends, I need to get data in multiple row of one column. For example data from that format ID Interest 1. Sports 1. Cooking 2. Movie 2. Reading to that format ID Interest 1. Sports,Cooking 2. Movie,Reading I wonder that we can do that in MS Access sql. If anybody knows that, please help me on that.

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• Microsoft Expression Web 3 clipboard bug

  - by Ghostrider

  There seems to be a rather annoying bug in MS Expression Web 3 (or perhaps an incompatibility with something else I have installed). Quite often HTML code editor would refuse to copy things into clipboard. You select some text, press Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Insert or use context menu and nothing happens. Then in 10..15 seconds it would start working again... Then again it would not work. It's rather annoying. Does anyone else have such a problem or knows how to fix it? I'm running Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 Version 3.0.3813.0 on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with all latest updates and patches. I have Russian keyboard layout installed. Other than that my system is pretty much plain vanilla.

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• Random Page Cost and Planning

  - by Dave Jarvis

  A query (see below) that extracts climate data from weather stations within a given radius of a city using the dates for which those weather stations actually have data. The query uses the table's only index, rather effectively: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX measurement_001_stc_idx ON climate.measurement_001 USING btree (station_id, taken, category_id); Reducing the server's configuration value for random_page_cost from 2.0 to 1.1 had a massive performance improvement for the given range (nearly an order of magnitude) because it suggested to PostgreSQL that it should use the index. While the results now return in 5 seconds (down from ~85 seconds), problematic lines remain. Bumping the query's end date by a single year causes a full table scan: sc.taken_start >= '1900-01-01'::date AND sc.taken_end <= '1997-12-31'::date AND How do I persuade PostgreSQL to use the indexes regardless of years between the two dates? (A full table scan against 43 million rows is probably not the best plan.) Find the EXPLAIN ANALYSE results below the query. Thank you! Query SELECT extract(YEAR FROM m.taken) AS year, avg(m.amount) AS amount FROM climate.city c, climate.station s, climate.station_category sc, climate.measurement m WHERE c.id = 5182 AND earth_distance( ll_to_earth(c.latitude_decimal,c.longitude_decimal), ll_to_earth(s.latitude_decimal,s.longitude_decimal)) / 1000 <= 30 AND s.elevation BETWEEN 0 AND 3000 AND s.applicable = TRUE AND sc.station_id = s.id AND sc.category_id = 1 AND sc.taken_start >= '1900-01-01'::date AND sc.taken_end <= '1996-12-31'::date AND m.station_id = s.id AND m.taken BETWEEN sc.taken_start AND sc.taken_end AND m.category_id = sc.category_id GROUP BY extract(YEAR FROM m.taken) ORDER BY extract(YEAR FROM m.taken) 1900 to 1996: Index "Sort (cost=1348597.71..1348598.21 rows=200 width=12) (actual time=2268.929..2268.935 rows=92 loops=1)" " Sort Key: (date_part('year'::text, (m.taken)::timestamp without time zone))" " Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 32kB" " -> HashAggregate (cost=1348586.56..1348590.06 rows=200 width=12) (actual time=2268.829..2268.886 rows=92 loops=1)" " -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..1344864.01 rows=744510 width=12) (actual time=0.807..2084.206 rows=134893 loops=1)" " Join Filter: ((m.taken >= sc.taken_start) AND (m.taken <= sc.taken_end) AND (sc.station_id = m.station_id))" " -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..12755.07 rows=1220 width=18) (actual time=0.502..521.937 rows=23 loops=1)" " Join Filter: ((sec_to_gc(cube_distance((ll_to_earth((c.latitude_decimal)::double precision, (c.longitude_decimal)::double precision))::cube, (ll_to_earth((s.latitude_decimal)::double precision, (s.longitude_decimal)::double precision))::cube)) / 1000::double precision) <= 30::double precision)" " -> Index Scan using city_pkey1 on city c (cost=0.00..2.47 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=0.014..0.015 rows=1 loops=1)" " Index Cond: (id = 5182)" " -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..9907.73 rows=3659 width=34) (actual time=0.014..28.937 rows=3458 loops=1)" " -> Seq Scan on station_category sc (cost=0.00..970.20 rows=3659 width=14) (actual time=0.008..10.947 rows=3458 loops=1)" " Filter: ((taken_start >= '1900-01-01'::date) AND (taken_end <= '1996-12-31'::date) AND (category_id = 1))" " -> Index Scan using station_pkey1 on station s (cost=0.00..2.43 rows=1 width=20) (actual time=0.004..0.004 rows=1 loops=3458)" " Index Cond: (s.id = sc.station_id)" " Filter: (s.applicable AND (s.elevation >= 0) AND (s.elevation <= 3000))" " -> Append (cost=0.00..1072.27 rows=947 width=18) (actual time=6.996..63.199 rows=5865 loops=23)" " -> Seq Scan on measurement m (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=6 width=22) (actual time=0.000..0.000 rows=0 loops=23)" " Filter: (m.category_id = 1)" " -> Bitmap Heap Scan on measurement_001 m (cost=20.79..1047.27 rows=941 width=18) (actual time=6.995..62.390 rows=5865 loops=23)" " Recheck Cond: ((m.station_id = sc.station_id) AND (m.taken >= sc.taken_start) AND (m.taken <= sc.taken_end) AND (m.category_id = 1))" " -> Bitmap Index Scan on measurement_001_stc_idx (cost=0.00..20.55 rows=941 width=0) (actual time=5.775..5.775 rows=5865 loops=23)" " Index Cond: ((m.station_id = sc.station_id) AND (m.taken >= sc.taken_start) AND (m.taken <= sc.taken_end) AND (m.category_id = 1))" "Total runtime: 2269.264 ms" 1900 to 1997: Full Table Scan "Sort (cost=1370192.26..1370192.76 rows=200 width=12) (actual time=86165.797..86165.809 rows=94 loops=1)" " Sort Key: (date_part('year'::text, (m.taken)::timestamp without time zone))" " Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 32kB" " -> HashAggregate (cost=1370181.12..1370184.62 rows=200 width=12) (actual time=86165.654..86165.736 rows=94 loops=1)" " -> Hash Join (cost=4293.60..1366355.81 rows=765061 width=12) (actual time=534.786..85920.007 rows=139721 loops=1)" " Hash Cond: (m.station_id = sc.station_id)" " Join Filter: ((m.taken >= sc.taken_start) AND (m.taken <= sc.taken_end))" " -> Append (cost=0.00..867005.80 rows=43670150 width=18) (actual time=0.009..79202.329 rows=43670079 loops=1)" " -> Seq Scan on measurement m (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=6 width=22) (actual time=0.001..0.001 rows=0 loops=1)" " Filter: (category_id = 1)" " -> Seq Scan on measurement_001 m (cost=0.00..866980.80 rows=43670144 width=18) (actual time=0.008..73312.008 rows=43670079 loops=1)" " Filter: (category_id = 1)" " -> Hash (cost=4277.93..4277.93 rows=1253 width=18) (actual time=534.704..534.704 rows=25 loops=1)" " -> Nested Loop (cost=847.87..4277.93 rows=1253 width=18) (actual time=415.837..534.682 rows=25 loops=1)" " Join Filter: ((sec_to_gc(cube_distance((ll_to_earth((c.latitude_decimal)::double precision, (c.longitude_decimal)::double precision))::cube, (ll_to_earth((s.latitude_decimal)::double precision, (s.longitude_decimal)::double precision))::cube)) / 1000::double precision) <= 30::double precision)" " -> Index Scan using city_pkey1 on city c (cost=0.00..2.47 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=0.012..0.014 rows=1 loops=1)" " Index Cond: (id = 5182)" " -> Hash Join (cost=847.87..1352.07 rows=3760 width=34) (actual time=6.427..35.107 rows=3552 loops=1)" " Hash Cond: (s.id = sc.station_id)" " -> Seq Scan on station s (cost=0.00..367.25 rows=7948 width=20) (actual time=0.004..23.529 rows=7949 loops=1)" " Filter: (applicable AND (elevation >= 0) AND (elevation <= 3000))" " -> Hash (cost=800.87..800.87 rows=3760 width=14) (actual time=6.416..6.416 rows=3552 loops=1)" " -> Bitmap Heap Scan on station_category sc (cost=430.29..800.87 rows=3760 width=14) (actual time=2.316..5.353 rows=3552 loops=1)" " Recheck Cond: (category_id = 1)" " Filter: ((taken_start >= '1900-01-01'::date) AND (taken_end <= '1997-12-31'::date))" " -> Bitmap Index Scan on station_category_station_category_idx (cost=0.00..429.35 rows=6376 width=0) (actual time=2.268..2.268 rows=6339 loops=1)" " Index Cond: (category_id = 1)" "Total runtime: 86165.936 ms"

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• Anyone using Moles / Pex in production?

  - by dferraro

  Hi all, I did search the forum and did not find a similar question. I'm looking to make a final decision on our mocking framework of choice moving forward as a best practice - I've decided on Moq... untill I just recently discovered MS has finally created a mocking framework called Moles which seems to work similar to TypeMock via the profiler API sexyness etc.. There's a million 'NMock vs Moq vs TypeMock vs Rhino....' threads on here. But I never see Moles involved.In fact, I did not even know if its existence until a short time ago. Anyone using it? In Production? Anyone dump their old mocking framework for it, and if so, which one? How did it compare to ther mocking frameworks you've used? thanks.. ps, we are using VS2008 and are moving to 2010 shortly.

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• Examples of good IDEs to analyze for custom Form/Report designer

  - by Paul Sasik

  I am working on a basic form/report designer. Some of the features i'm looking to implement are: Single or multiple selection of objects Alignment of objects (when several are selected) Same-sizing of objects (when several are selected) Moving/dragging of selected object(s) Selected object resizing in eight directions (using object grips) For features and look-and-feel I've analyzed and used a mixture of ideas from: MS Visual Studio 200x (most useful so far) Visio Crystal Reports My question is: Have I overlooked some other IDEs that provide these kinds of features that are better and user-friendlier examples of what to do than others i've looked at? (They don't have to be Microsoft products. That's just what i have ready access to.)

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• Data table to Excel conversion leaves my server side button non responsive in SharePoint WebPart

  - by Nikhil Vaghela

  We have a web part on which we display some data in a grid. We are exporting grid's underlying datatable to Excel and displaying Open - Save - Cancel dialouge box on click of a server side button. Following is the code we are executing on click of server side button. this.Page.Response.Clear(); this.Page.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=MyTasks.xls"); this.Page.Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel"; this.Page.Response.Write("...here goes my well formated html...."); this.Page.Response.End(); Problem is that when i click on Cancel in the diaglouge box then dialogue box to Open/Save excel disappears but all the server side buttons placed on my web part becomes non responsive, on click of any of those buttons their server side click event does not get fired !!! Any idea ? Thanks.

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• Using jQuery for client side validation in MVC2 RTM

  - by tigermain

  Scott Gu's tutorial on Model validation gets us all set up with the MS client side validation using the following scripts: <script src="../../Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script> However I've seen various posts allowing us to utilise jQuery instead with the following code: <script src="https://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery.Validate/1.6/jQuery.Validate.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="<%= Url.Content("~/scripts/MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js") %>" type="text/javascript"></script> However MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js does not ship with the solution and from what I read it should be part of the Futures pack which is no longer available on CodePlex. I managed to find a version alongside jQuery 1.3.2 but it does not work. What is the forward going solution!?

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• Seeking tuturial: introduction to ODBC with Delphi

  - by mawg

  I have a lot of embedded C/C++/Ada experience and an outdated smattering of Delphi plus some database stuff. Now I have to implement an app in Delphi which can manipulate MySql, Oracle, maybe MS Acess. In short, I need ODBC. I need to programatically created a database, define its structure and populate its contents, then later query its existence and programatically search. I would prefer not to use 3rd party components, unless there is a compelling reason to do so (performance ought not to be an issue for the app, it won't have much data or be run often, at least not in v1.0) . Can anyone point me at a tutorial which can get me up to speed? Thanks

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• Manage spreadsheet versioning

  - by oo

  We have a lot of VBA code in spreadsheets and a lot of time people save them to local drives. When we want to upgrade the spreadsheets we push a new version out to a shared drive but dont have any way of enforcing that people dont use the old versions of the spreadsheets. Is there some best practice here to deploy vba spreadsheets so if someone loads an old version it wont open or will ask you to upgrade. It seems like this must be an issue for any custom solution so i would have through MS would have some solution here. Does microsoft have a standard versioning / deployment solution for this or do i need to come up with some home grown solution (spreadsheet pings a database on startup to check version)

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• What add-in/workbench framework is the best .NET alternative to Eclipse RCP?

  - by Winston Fassett

  I'm looking for a plugin-based application framework that is comparable to the Eclipse Plugin Framework, which to my simple mind consists of: a core plugin management framework (Equinox / OSGI), which provides the ability to declare extension endpoints and then discover and load plugins that service those endpoints. (this is different than Dependency Injection, but admittedly the difference is subtle - configuration is highly de-centralized, there are versioning concerns, it might involve an online plugin repository, and most importantly to me, it should be easy for the user to add plugins without needing to know anything about the underlying architecture / config files) many layers of plugins that provide a basic workbench shell with concurrency support, commands, preference sheets, menus, toolbars, key bindings, etc. That is just scratching the surface of the RCP, which itself is meant to serve as the foundation of your application, which you build by writing / assembling even more plugins. Here's what I've gleaned from the internet in the past couple of days... As far as I can tell, there is nothing in the .NET world that remotely approaches the robustness and maturity of the Eclipse RCP for Java but there are several contenders that do either #1 or #2 pretty well. (I should also mention that I have not made a final decision on WinForms vs WPF, so I'm also trying to understand the level of UI coupling in any candidate framework. I'm also wondering about platform coupling and source code licensing) I must say that the open-source stuff is generally less-documented but easier to understand, while the MS stuff typically has more documentation but is less accessible, so that with many of the MS technologies, I'm left wondering what they actually do, in a practical sense. These are the libraries I have found: SharpDevelop The first thing I looked at was SharpDevelop, which does both #1 and also #2 in a basic way (no insult to SharpDevelop, which is admirable - I just mean more basic than Eclipse RCP). However, SharpDevelop is an application more than a framework, and there are basic assumptions and limitations there (i.e. being somewhat coupled to WinForms). Still, there are some articles on CodeProject explaining how to use it as the foundation for an application. System.Addins It appears that System.Addins is meant to provide a robust add-in loading framework, with some sophisticated options for loading assemblies with varying levels of trusts and even running the out of process. It appears to be primarily code-based, and pretty code-heavy, with lots of assemblies that serve to insulate against versioning issues., using Guidance Automation to generate a good deal of code. So far I haven't found many System.AddIns articles that illustrate how it could be used to build something like an Eclipse RCP, and many people seem to be wringing their hands about its complexity. Mono.Addins It appears that Mono.Addins was influenced by System.Addins, SharpDevelop, and MonoDevelop. It seems to provide the basics from System.Addins, with less sophisticated options for plugin loading, but more simplicity, with attribute-based registration, XML manifests, and the infrastructure for online plugin repositories. It has a pretty good FAQ and documentation, as well as a fairly robust set of examples that really help paint a picture of how to develop an architecture like that of SharpDevelop or Eclipse. The examples use GTK for UI, but the framework itself is not coupled to GTK. So it appears to do #1 (add-in loading) pretty well and points the way to #2 (workbench framework). It appears that Mono.Addins was derived from MonoDevelop, but I haven't actually looked at whether MonoDevelop provides a good core workbench framework. Managed Extensibility Framework This is what everyone's talking about at the moment, and it's slowly getting clearer what it does, but I'm still pretty fuzzy, even after reading several posts on SO. The official word is that it "can live side-by-side" with System.Addins. However, it doesn't reference it and it appears to reproduce some of its functionality. It seems to me, then, that it is a simpler, more accessible alternative to System.Addins. It appears to be more like Mono.Addins in that it provides attribute-based wiring. It provides "catalogs" that can be attribute-based or directory-based. It does not seem to provide any XML or manifest-based wiring. So far I haven't found much documentation and the examples seem to be kind of "magical" and more reminiscent of attribute-based DI, despite the clarifications that MEF is not a DI container. Its license just got opened up, but it does reference WindowsBase -- not sure if that means it's coupled to Windows. Acropolis I'm not sure what this is. Is it MEF, or something that is still coming? Composite Application Blocks There are WPF and Winforms Composite Application blocks that seem to provide much more of a workbench framework. I have very little experience with these but they appear to rely on Guidance Automation quite a bit are obviously coupled with the UI layers. There are a few examples of combining MEF with these application blocks. I've done the best I could to answer my own question here, but I'm really only scratching the surface, and I don't have experience with any of these frameworks. Hopefully some of you can add more detail about the frameworks you have experience with. It would be great if we could end up with some sort of comparison matrix.

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• How do I design the file storage issue?

  - by user102533

  I am working on an application that creates video files and stores them in a folder in the C:\ drive. I speculate that there will be a large number of these files in the future and we would run out of disk space at some point of time (on our VPS). When the time comes that we have to upgrade, we either plan to use one of the Cloud providers to store files or our existing provider can add another disk (say D:\ drive). Either way, I would want to design the app now in a way that in future, moving to different locations would not be an issue and would be transparent to the end user. The code that creates these files supports 2 ways: myObj.SetOutputToDisk(<path to store>); or myObj.SetOutputToMemoryStream(ms); If we go with the Cloud architecture, I assume we might have the following combination: Cloud Files + Existing VPS or Cloud Files + Cloud Windows Server Given the unknowns at this time, how would I go about designing this?

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