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• Opinions about the current and future state of Dabo

  - by ChrisC

  Has anyone used Dabo lately? How does it rate vs Boa Constructor, etc? I'm writing a new Python database app and Dabo looks promising, but what's the real-world scoop on it? Is it used by many developers? It's not talked about very much here on SO, or anywhere, as far as I can tell. I'm just a little concerned that the support community might be too small, or the possibility that writers might decide to throw in the towel. What are your opinions of Dabo?

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• Opinions about Dabo

  - by driverate

  Has anyone used Dabo lately? How does it rate vs Boa Constructor, etc? I'm writing a new Python database app and Dabo looks promising, but what's the real-world scoop on it? Is it used by many developers? It's not talked about very much here on SO, or anywhere, as far as I can tell. I'm just a little concerned that the support community might be too small, or the possibility that writers might decide to throw in the towel. What is your assessment of Dabo?

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• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2010 -- #838

  - by Dave Campbell

  In this Issue: Alan Beasley(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), Brian, Rishi, Pete Brown, Yavor Georgiev, and David Anson. Shoutouts: As usual, Tim Heuer has all the scoop on all the hot-off-the-presses releases: Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement. He covers all the main parts of interest. Tim Heuer also discusses Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications And before you ask, Tim Heuer announced the Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release If you're having trouble with the install, Peter Bromberg has a post up to help bail you out: Get Silverlight 4 Installed: Tips and Tricks Christian Schormann has a link to probably the fastest intro to SketchFlow I've seen: Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris Chris Rouw has a Summary of Silverlight at DevConnections on his site. I had the opportunity to spend some time with Chris and we had some good discussions. Rene Schulte describes how to get started with the new final Silverlight 4 RTW build and announces that he updated his samples and open source projects. He also shares what he wishes for the next Silverlight version: Silverlight 4 Up and Running From SilverlightCream.com: Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend and Silverlight I generally end up missing articles embedded at CodeProject, so Alan Beasley emailed me a link to these, they were new to me. In this first one, he's got a very nice tutorial up on making some awesome buttons in Expression Blend Arcade Button in Expression Blend and Silverlight Alan Beasley's second Expression Blend Button tutorial is the classic 'arcade button' ... this is great stuff.. check it out. Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend and Silverlight I wasn't going to do the full list Alan Beasley had sent me in one post, but they're all so good! This third takes an excursion away from buttons to do a Picture Frame control. Styled to the max, and another great Blend tutorial! The last building buttons article (Part1), in Expression Blend and Silverlight Alan Beasley finishes what may be a definitive work on buttons in Blend... even if you don't want to follow the tutorials (and why wouldn't you??) ... he's got 10 buttons you can download! ListBox Styling (Part1-ScrollBars) in Expression Blend & Silverlight In Alan Beasley's 5th post at Code Project, He has a great long tutorial on Styling Listbox Scrollbars in Expression Blend ... the ScrollBars are Part 1 of a series. Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4 Brian at Silverlight SDK has a post up on DRM ... WMDRM and PlayReady. If you're planning on utilizing this, Brian's post looks like a good starting point. nRoute: Now, More Wholesome Rishi has a detailed post up explaining the latest nRoute release now supporting Silverlight 4, WP7, and WPF. What a piece of work! Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation Pete Brown demonstrates using VS2010 and SL4 to lash up to his scanner. Lots of code and external links... all good stuff, Pete! Dealing with those pesky WCF CommunicationException “NotFound” errors in Silverlight Yavor Georgiev has a quick post up discussing WCF CommunicationException errors in Silverlight with a couple external links to explain the solution. New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today's Silverlight 4 RTW! David Anson blogged about the new Toolkit release that is live right now along with the Silverlight 4 Release, and has some release notes up on the Toolkit. Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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• Building a Data Mart with Pentaho Data Integration Video Review by Diethard Steiner, Packt Publishing

  - by Compudicted

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Compudicted/archive/2014/06/01/building-a-data-mart-with-pentaho-data-integration-video-review.aspx The Building a Data Mart with Pentaho Data Integration Video by Diethard Steiner from Packt Publishing is more than just a course on how to use Pentaho Data Integration, it also implements and uses the principals of the Data Warehousing (and I even heard the name of Ralph Kimball in the video). Indeed, a video watcher should be familiar with its concepts as the Star Schema, Slowly Changing Dimension types, etc. so I suggest prior to watching this course to consider skimming through the Data Warehouse concepts (if unfamiliar) or even better, read the excellent Ralph’s The Data Warehouse Tooolkit. By the way, the author expands beyond using Pentaho along to MySQL and MonetDB which is a real icing on the cake! Indeed, I even suggest the name of the course should be ‘Building a Data Warehouse with Pentaho’. To successfully complete the course one needs to know some Linux (Ubuntu used in the course), the VI editor and the Bash command shell, but it seems that similar requirements would also apply to the Weindows OS. Additionally, knowing some basic SQL would not hurt. As I had said, MonetDB is used in this course several times which seems to be not anymore complex than say MySQL, but based on what I read is very well suited for fast querying big volumes of data thanks to having a columnstore (vertical data storage). I don’t see what else can be a barrier, the material is very digestible. On this note, I must add that the author does not cover how to acquire the software, so here is what I found may help: Pentaho: the free Community Edition must be more than anyone needs to learn it. Or even go into a POC. MonetDB can be downloaded (exists for both, Linux and Windows) from http://goo.gl/FYxMy0 (just see the appropriate link on the left). The author seems to be using Eclipse to run SQL code, one can get it from http://goo.gl/5CcuN. To create, or edit database entities and/or schema otherwise one can use a universal tool called SQuirreL, get it from http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net.   Next, I must confess Diethard is very knowledgeable in what he does and beyond. However, there will be some accent heard to the user of the course especially if one’s mother tongue language is English, but it I got over it in a few chapters. I liked the rate at which the material is being presented, it makes me feel I paid for every second Eventually, my impressions are: Pentaho is an awesome ETL offering, it is worth learning it very much (I am an ETL fan and a heavy user of SSIS) MonetDB is nice, it tickles my fancy to know it more Data Warehousing, despite all the BigData tool offerings (Hive, Scoop, Pig on Hadoop), using the traditional tools still rocks Chapters 2 to 6 were the most fun to me with chapter 8 being the most difficult.   In terms of closing, I highly recommend this video to anyone who needs to grasp Pentaho concepts quick, likewise, the course is very well suited for any developer on a “supposed to be done yesterday” type of a project. It is for a beginner to intermediate level ETL/DW developer. But one would need to learn more on Data Warehousing and Pentaho, for such I recommend the 5 star Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook. Enjoy it! Disclaimer: I received this video from the publisher for the purpose of a public review.

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• Building a Data Mart with Pentaho Data Integration Video Review by Diethard Steiner, Packt Publishing

  - by Compudicted

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Compudicted/archive/2014/06/01/building-a-data-mart-with-pentaho-data-integration-video-review-again.aspx The Building a Data Mart with Pentaho Data Integration Video by Diethard Steiner from Packt Publishing is more than just a course on how to use Pentaho Data Integration, it also implements and uses the principals of the Data Warehousing (and I even heard the name of Ralph Kimball in the video). Indeed, a video watcher should be familiar with its concepts as the Star Schema, Slowly Changing Dimension types, etc. so I suggest prior to watching this course to consider skimming through the Data Warehouse concepts (if unfamiliar) or even better, read the excellent Ralph’s The Data Warehouse Tooolkit. By the way, the author expands beyond using Pentaho along to MySQL and MonetDB which is a real icing on the cake! Indeed, I even suggest the name of the course should be ‘Building a Data Warehouse with Pentaho’. To successfully complete the course one needs to know some Linux (Ubuntu used in the course), the VI editor and the Bash command shell, but it seems that similar requirements would also apply to the Windows OS. Additionally, knowing some basic SQL would not hurt. As I had said, MonetDB is used in this course several times which seems to be not anymore complex than say MySQL, but based on what I read is very well suited for fast querying big volumes of data thanks to having a columnstore (vertical data storage). I don’t see what else can be a barrier, the material is very digestible. On this note, I must add that the author does not cover how to acquire the software, so here is what I found may help: Pentaho: the free Community Edition must be more than anyone needs to learn it. Or even go into a POC. MonetDB can be downloaded (exists for both, Linux and Windows) from http://goo.gl/FYxMy0 (just see the appropriate link on the left). The author seems to be using Eclipse to run SQL code, one can get it from http://goo.gl/5CcuN. To create, or edit database entities and/or schema otherwise one can use a universal tool called SQuirreL, get it from http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net.   Next, I must confess Diethard is very knowledgeable in what he does and beyond. However, there will be some accent heard to the user of the course especially if one’s mother tongue language is English, but it I got over it in a few chapters. I liked the rate at which the material is being presented, it makes me feel I paid for every second Eventually, my impressions are: Pentaho is an awesome ETL offering, it is worth learning it very much (I am an ETL fan and a heavy user of SSIS) MonetDB is nice, it tickles my fancy to know it more Data Warehousing, despite all the BigData tool offerings (Hive, Scoop, Pig on Hadoop), using the traditional tools still rocks Chapters 2 to 6 were the most fun to me with chapter 8 being the most difficult.   In terms of closing, I highly recommend this video to anyone who needs to grasp Pentaho concepts quick, likewise, the course is very well suited for any developer on a “supposed to be done yesterday” type of a project. It is for a beginner to intermediate level ETL/DW developer. But one would need to learn more on Data Warehousing and Pentaho, for such I recommend the 5 star Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook. Enjoy it! Disclaimer: I received this video from the publisher for the purpose of a public review.

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• 5 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Internet Explorer 9

  - by David Wesst

  The day has finally come: Microsoft has released a web browser that is awesome. On Monday night, Microsoft officially introduced the world to the latest edition to its product family: Internet Explorer 9. That makes March 14, 2011 (also known as PI day) the official birthday of Microsoft’s rebirth in the world of web browsing. Just like any big event, you take some time to celebrate. Here are a few things that you can do to celebrate the return of Internet Explorer. 1. Download It If you’re not a big partier, that’s fine. The one thing you can do (and definitely should) is download it and give it a shot. Sure, IE may have disappointed you in the past, but believe me when I say they really put the effort in this time. The absolute least you can do is give it a shot to see how it stands up against your favourite browser. 2. Get yourself an HTML5 Shirt One of the coolest, if not best parts of IE9 being released is that it officially introduces HTML5 as a fully supported platform from Microsoft. IE9 supports a lot of what is already defined in the HTML5 technical spec, which really demonstrates Microsoft’s support of the new standard. Since HTML5 is cool on the web, it means that it is cool to wear it too. Head over to html5shirt.com and get yourself, or your staff, or your whole family, an HTML5 shirt to show the real world that you are ready for the future of the web. 3. HTML5-ify Something Okay, so maybe a shirt isn’t enough for you. Maybe you need start using HTML5 for real. If you have a blog, or a website, or anything out there on the web, celebrate IE9 adding some HTML5 to your site. Whether that is updating old code, adding something new, or just changing your WordPress theme, definitely take a look at what HTML5 can do for you. 4. Help Kill Old IE and Upgrade your Organization See this? This is sad. Upgrading web browsers in an large enterprise or organization is not a trivial task. A lot of companies will use the excuse of not having the resources to upgrade legacy web applications they were built for a specific version of IE and it doesn’t render correctly in legacy browsers. Well, it’s time to stop the excuses. IE9 allows you to define what version of Internet Explorer you would like it to emulate. It takes minimal effort for the developer, and will get rid of the excuses. Show your IT manager or software development team this link and show them how easy it is to make old code render right in the latest and greatest from the IE team. 5. Submit an Entry for DevUnplugged So, you’ve made it to number five eh? Well then, you must be pretty hardcore to make it this far down the list. Fine, let’s take it to the next level and build an HTML5 game. That’s right. A game. Like a video game. HTML5 introduces some amazing new features that can let you build working video games using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Plus, Microsoft is celebrating the launch of IE9 with a contest where you can submit an HTML5 game (or audio application) and have a chance to win a whack of cash and other prizes. Head here for the full scoop and rules for the DevUnplugged. This post also appears at http://david.wes.st

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• TFS and Forms Authentication

  - by George

  I don't know squat about TFS, other than as a user who has performed simple check in/outs. I just installed it locally and would like to do joint development with a friend. I was having trouble making my TFS web site on port 8080 visible (the whole scoop is here if your interested) and I wonder if it could be related to the fact that TFS is probably using Windows Authentication to identify the user. Can TFS be set up to use forms authentication? We probably need to set up a VPN, though that's a learning curve too. To use TFS, do our machines have to belong to a domain? We're not admin types, though he is better than me, though I would be interested in any feedback or advice on which path is likely to pan out the best. I already got AxoSoft OneTime working in this type of an environment and it suits us well, but I am tempted at all the bells & whistles with TFS and the ability to tie tracked bug items to code changes. As far as finding a good way to share code, do sites like SourceForge allow one to keep code secure among members only?

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• No route matches when trying to edit

  - by mmichael

  Here's the scoop: I've created a test app that allows users to create ideas and then add "bubbles" to these ideas. Currently, a bubble is just text. I've successfully linked bubbles to ideas. Furthermore, when a user goes to view an idea it lists all of the bubbles attached to that idea. The user can even delete the bubble for any given idea. My problem lies in editing bubbles. When a user views an idea, he sees the idea's content as well as any bubbles for that idea. As a result, I've set all my bubble controls (editing and deleting) inside the ideas "show" view. My code for editing a bubble for an idea is <%= link_to 'Edit Bubble', edit_idea_bubble_path %>. I ran rake routes to find the correct path for editing bubbles and that is what was listed. Here's my error: No route matches {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"bubbles"} In my bubbles controller I have: def edit @idea = Idea.find(params[:idea_id]) @bubble = @idea.bubbles.find(params[:id]) end def update @idea = Idea.find(params[:idea_id]) @bubble = @idea.bubbles.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| if @bubble.update_attributes(params[:bubble]) format.html { redirect_to(@bubble, :notice => 'Bubble was successfully updated.') } format.xml { head :ok } else format.html { render :action => "Edit" } format.xml { render :xml => @bubble.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end end To go a step further, I have the following in my routes.rb file resources :ideas do resources :bubbles end So far everything seems to function except when I try to edit a bubble. I'd love some guidance. Thanks!

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• Running a process at the Windows 7 Welcome Screen

  - by peelman

  So here's the scoop: I wrote a tiny C# app a while back that displays the hostname, ip address, imaged date, thaw status (we use DeepFreeze), current domain, and the current date/time, to display on the welcome screen of our Windows 7 lab machines. This was to replace our previous information block, which was set statically at startup and actually embedded text into the background, with something a little more dynamic and functional. The app uses a Timer to update the ip address, deepfreeze status, and clock every second, and it checks to see if a user has logged in and kills itself when it detects such a condition. If we just run it, via our startup script (set via group policy), it holds the script open and the machine never makes it to the login prompt. If we use something like the start or cmd commands to start it off under a separate shell/process, it runs until the startup script finishes, at which point Windows seems to clean up any and all child processes of the script. We're currently able to bypass that using psexec -s -d -i -x to fire it off, which lets it persist after the startup script is completed, but can be incredibly slow, adding anywhere between 5 seconds and over a minute to our startup time. We have experimented with using another C# app to start the process, via the Process class, using WMI Calls (Win32_Process and Win32_ProcessStartup) with various startup flags, etc, but all end with the same result of the script finishing and the info block process getting killed. I tinkered with rewriting the app as a service, but services were never designed to interact with the desktop, let alone the login window, and getting things operating in the right context never really seemed to work out. So for the question: Does anybody have a good way to accomplish this? Launch a task so that it would be independent of the startup script and run on top of the welcome screen?

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• Weekend reading: Microsoft/Oracle and SkyDrive based code-editor

  - by jamiet

  A couple of news item caught my eye this weekend that I think are worthy of comment. Microsoft/Oracle partnership to be announced tomorrow (24/06/2013) According to many news site Microsoft and Oracle are about to announce a partnership (Oracle set for major Microsoft, Salesforce, Netsuite partnerships) and they all seem to be assuming that it will be something to do with “the cloud”. I wouldn’t disagree with that assessment, Microsoft are heavily pushing Azure and Oracle seem (to me anyway) to be rather lagging behind in the cloud game. More specifically folks seem to be assuming that Oracle’s forthcoming 12c database release will be offered on Azure. I did a bit of reading about Oracle 12c and one of its key pillars appears to be that it supports multi-tenant topologies and multi-tenancy is a common usage scenario for databases in the cloud. I’m left wondering then, if Microsoft are willing to push a rival’s multi-tenant solution what is happening to its own cloud-based multi-tenant offering – SQL Azure Federations. We haven’t heard anything about federations for what now seems to be a long time and moreover the main Program Manager behind the technology, Cihan Biyikoglu, recently left Microsoft to join Twitter. Furthermore, a Principle Architect for SQL Server, Conor Cunningham, recently presented the opening keynote at SQLBits 11 where he talked about multi-tenant solutions on SQL Azure and not once did he mention federations. All in all I don’t have a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of SQL Azure Federations so I hope that that question gets asked at some point following the Microsoft/Oracle announcement. Text Editor on SkyDrive with coding-specific features Liveside.net got a bit of a scoop this weekend with the news (Exclusive: SkyDrive.com to get web-based text file editing features) that Microsoft’s consumer-facing file storage service is going to get a new feature – a web-based code editor. Here’s Liveside’s screenshot: I’ve long had a passing interest in online code editors, indeed back in December 2009 I wondered out loud on this blog site: I started to wonder when the development tools that we use would also become cloud-based. After all, if we’re using cloud-based services does it not make sense to have cloud-based tools that work with them? I think it does. Project Houston Since then the world has moved on. Cloud 9 IDE (https://c9.io/) have blazed a trail in the fledgling world of online code editors and I have been wondering when Microsoft were going to start playing catch-up. I had no doubt that an online code editor was in Microsoft’s future; its an obvious future direction, why would I want to have to download and install a bloated text editor (which, arguably, is exactly what Visual Studio amounts to) and have to continually update it when I can simply open a web browser and have ready access to all of my code from wherever I am. There are signs that Microsoft is already making moves in this direction, after all the URL for their new offering Team Foundation Service doesn’t mention TFS at all – my own personalised URL for Team Foundation Service is http://jamiet.visualstudio.com – using “Visual Studio” as the domain name for a service that isn’t strictly speaking part of Visual Studio leads me to think that there’s a much bigger play here and that one day http://visualstudio.com will house an online code editor. With that in mind then I find Liveside’s revelation rather intriguing, why would a code editing tool show up in Skydrive? Perhaps SkyDrive is going to get integrated more tightly into TFS, I’m very interested to see where this goes. The larger question playing on my mind though is whether an online code editor from Microsoft will support SQL Server developers. I have opined before (see The SQL developer gap) about the shoddy treatment that SQL Server developers have to experience from Microsoft and I haven’t seen any change in Microsoft’s attitude in the three and a half years since I wrote that post. I’m constantly bewildered by the lack of investment in SQL Server developer productivity compared to the riches that are lavished upon our appdev brethren. When you consider that SQL Server is Microsoft’s third biggest revenue stream it is, frankly, rather insulting. SSDT was a step in the right direction but the hushed noises I hear coming out of Microsoft of late in regard to SSDT don’t bode fantastically well for its future. So, will an online code editor from Microsoft support T-SQL development? I have to assume not given the paucity of investment on us lowly SQL Server developers over the last few years, but I live in hope! Your thoughts in the comments section please. I would be very interested in reading them. @Jamiet

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• Transparency and AlphaBlending

  - by TechTwaddle

  In this post we'll look at the AlphaBlend() api and how it can be used for semi-transparent blitting. AlphaBlend() takes a source device context and a destination device context (DC) and combines the bits in such a way that it gives a transparent effect. Follow the links for the msdn documentation. So lets take a image like, and AlphaBlend() it on our window. The code to do so is below, (under the WM_PAINT message of WndProc) HBITMAP hBitmap=NULL, hBitmapOld=NULL; HDC hMemDC=NULL; BLENDFUNCTION bf; hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps); hMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc); hBitmap = LoadBitmap(g_hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1)); hBitmapOld = SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap); bf.BlendOp = AC_SRC_OVER; bf.BlendFlags = 0; bf.SourceConstantAlpha = 80; //transparency value between 0-255 bf.AlphaFormat = 0;    AlphaBlend(hdc, 0, 25, 240, 100, hMemDC, 0, 0, 240, 100, bf); SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmapOld); DeleteDC(hMemDC); DeleteObject(hBitmap); EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);   The code above creates a memory DC (hMemDC) using CreateCompatibleDC(), loads a bitmap onto the memory DC and AlphaBlends it on the device DC (hdc), with a transparency value of 80. The result is: Pretty simple till now. Now lets try to do something a little more exciting. Lets get two images involved, each overlapping the other, giving a better demonstration of transparency. I am also going to add a few buttons so that the user can increase or decrease the transparency by clicking on the buttons. Since this is the first time I played around with GDI apis, I ran into something that everybody runs into sometime or the other, flickering. When clicking the buttons the images would flicker a lot, I figured out why and used something called double buffering to avoid flickering. We will look at both my first implementation and the second implementation just to give the concept a little more depth and perspective. A few pre-conditions before I dive into the code: - hBitmap and hBitmap2 are handles to the two images obtained using LoadBitmap(), these variables are global and are initialized under WM_CREATE - The two buttons in the application are labeled Opaque++ (make more opaque, less transparent) and Opaque-- (make less opaque, more transparent) - DrawPics(HWND hWnd, int step=0); is the function called to draw the images on the screen. This is called from under WM_PAINT and also when the buttons are clicked. When Opaque++ is clicked the 'step' value passed to DrawPics() is +20 and when Opaque-- is clicked the 'step' value is -20. The default value of 'step' is 0 Now lets take a look at my first implementation: //this funciton causes flicker, cos it draws directly to screen several times void DrawPics(HWND hWnd, int step) {     HDC hdc=NULL, hMemDC=NULL;     BLENDFUNCTION bf;     static UINT32 transparency = 100;     //no point in drawing when transparency is 0 and user clicks Opaque--     if (transparency == 0 && step < 0)         return;     //no point in drawing when transparency is 240 (opaque) and user clicks Opaque++     if (transparency == 240 && step > 0)         return;         hdc = GetDC(hWnd);     if (!hdc)         return;     //create a memory DC     hMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);     if (!hMemDC)     {         ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdc);         return;     }     //while increasing transparency, clear the contents of screen     if (step < 0)     {         RECT rect = {0, 0, 240, 200};         FillRect(hdc, &rect, (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH));     }     SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap2);     BitBlt(hdc, 0, 25, 240, 100, hMemDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);         SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap);     transparency += step;     if (transparency >= 240)         transparency = 240;     if (transparency <= 0)         transparency = 0;     bf.BlendOp = AC_SRC_OVER;     bf.BlendFlags = 0;     bf.SourceConstantAlpha = transparency;     bf.AlphaFormat = 0;            AlphaBlend(hdc, 0, 75, 240, 100, hMemDC, 0, 0, 240, 100, bf);     DeleteDC(hMemDC);     ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdc); }   In the code above, we first get the window DC using GetDC() and create a memory DC using CreateCompatibleDC(). Then we select hBitmap2 onto the memory DC and Blt it on the window DC (hdc). Next, we select the other image, hBitmap, onto memory DC and AlphaBlend() it over window DC. As I told you before, this implementation causes flickering because it draws directly on the screen (hdc) several times. The video below shows what happens when the buttons were clicked rapidly: Well, the video recording tool I use captures only 15 frames per second and so the flickering is not visible in the video. So you're gonna have to trust me on this, it flickers (; To solve this problem we make sure that the drawing to the screen happens only once and to do that we create an additional memory DC, hTempDC. We perform all our drawing on this memory DC and finally when it is ready we Blt hTempDC on hdc, and the images are displayed in one go. Here is the code for our new DrawPics() function: //no flicker void DrawPics(HWND hWnd, int step) {     HDC hdc=NULL, hMemDC=NULL, hTempDC=NULL;     BLENDFUNCTION bf;     HBITMAP hBitmapTemp=NULL, hBitmapOld=NULL;     static UINT32 transparency = 100;     //no point in drawing when transparency is 0 and user clicks Opaque--     if (transparency == 0 && step < 0)         return;     //no point in drawing when transparency is 240 (opaque) and user clicks Opaque++     if (transparency == 240 && step > 0)         return;         hdc = GetDC(hWnd);     if (!hdc)         return;     hMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);     hTempDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);     hBitmapTemp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdc, 240, 150);     hBitmapOld = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(hTempDC, hBitmapTemp);     if (!hMemDC)     {         ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdc);         return;     }     //while increasing transparency, clear the contents     if (step < 0)     {         RECT rect = {0, 0, 240, 150};         FillRect(hTempDC, &rect, (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH));     }     SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap2);     //Blt hBitmap2 directly to hTempDC     BitBlt(hTempDC, 0, 0, 240, 100, hMemDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);         SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap);     transparency += step;     if (transparency >= 240)         transparency = 240;     if (transparency <= 0)         transparency = 0;     bf.BlendOp = AC_SRC_OVER;     bf.BlendFlags = 0;     bf.SourceConstantAlpha = transparency;     bf.AlphaFormat = 0;            AlphaBlend(hTempDC, 0, 50, 240, 100, hMemDC, 0, 0, 240, 100, bf);     //now hTempDC is ready, blt it directly on hdc     BitBlt(hdc, 0, 25, 240, 150, hTempDC, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);     SelectObject(hTempDC, hBitmapOld);     DeleteObject(hBitmapTemp);     DeleteDC(hMemDC);     DeleteDC(hTempDC);     ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdc); }   This function is very similar to the first version, except for the use of hTempDC. Another point to note is the use of CreateCompatibleBitmap(). When a memory device context is created using CreateCompatibleDC(), the context is exactly one monochrome pixel high and one monochrome pixel wide. So in order for us to draw anything onto hTempDC, we first have to set a bitmap on it. We use CreateCompatibleBitmap() to create a bitmap of required dimension (240x150 above), and then select this bitmap onto hTempDC. Think of it as utilizing an extra canvas, drawing everything on the canvas and finally transferring the contents to the display in one scoop. And with this version the flickering is gone, video follows:   If you want the entire solutions source code then leave a message, I will share the code over SkyDrive.

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• syntax error in sql query?

  - by user1550588

  I want to create some tables in database so for that i wright some queries to create table. but i got an error "there was a syntax error in your sql statement". I check all my queries but i am not able to find what syntax i wright wrong. here i attached my sql queries please told me what is wrong with queries. Thanks in advance. CREATE TABLE "WATER&SEWAGE" { "CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "POTABLE_WATER" VARCHAR, "HOT_WATER" VARCHAR, "SAFETY" VARCHAR, "T/P_VALVE+EXT" VARCHAR, "HEATER_TYPE" VARCHAR, "GAS_VENT_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "FIRE_BOX_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "PRESSURE" VARCHAR, "BACK_FLOW" VARCHAR, "PLUMBING_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "CABINET_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "3_COMP_SINK" VARCHAR, "WATER_HEATER" VARCHAR, "CLEAN_OUT_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "FLOOR_DRAIN" VARCHAR, "FLOOR_SINK" VARCHAR, "MAINTANANCE" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "TIME_AND_TETMPERATURE_REL" ("CUSTOMER_ID" INTEGER, "THERMOMTE_AVAILABLE" VARCHAR, "THERMO_TYPE" VARCHAR, "COLD_TEMP" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE1" VARCHAR, "PROPER_COOLING" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE2" VARCHAR, "COMPLIANCE" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE3" VARCHAR, "TPHC" VARCHAR, "HACCP" VARCHAR, "HOT_HOLDING_TEMP" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE4" VARCHAR, "HOT_TEMP" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE5" VARCHAR, "IMPROPER_REHEATING" VARCHAR, "FOOD_TYPE6" VARCHAR, "FOOD_OUT_OF_TEMP" VARCHAR, "WRITTEN_PLAN_FILES" VARCHAR, "EMPLOYEE_KNOWLEDGE" VARCHAR, "TIME_KEEPING_METHODS" VARCHAR, "HACCP_METHODS" VARCHAR, "CALIBRATION" VARCHAR, "COOKING_TEMP" VARCHAR, "EQUIP_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "PROTECTION_FROM_CONTAMINATION" ("FOOD_ADULTERATION" VARCHAR, "FOOD_SPOILAGE" VARCHAR, "CONTAMINATION" VARCHAR, "FOOD_STORAGE" VARCHAR, "REFRIGRATORS" VARCHAR, "FREEZER" VARCHAR, "FIFO" VARCHAR, "DRY" VARCHAR, "DISHWASHING_CHEMICALS" VARCHAR, "CLEANING" VARCHAR, "SANITIZER" VARCHAR, "SUPPLY_EQUIPMENT" VARCHAR, "PESTICIDES" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR, "CUSTOMER_ID" INTEGER) CREATE TABLE "PHYSICAL_FACILITIES_2" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "CEILING" VARCHAR, "WINDOWS" VARCHAR, "SPOILS_STORAGE" VARCHAR, "DOORS" VARCHAR, "PERSONAL_LOCKERS" VARCHAR, "FLOORS" VARCHAR, "CONDITION" VARCHAR, "HANDICAP" VARCHAR, "SELF_CLOSING_ROOM" VARCHAR, "TOILETS" VARCHAR, "TOILET_PAPER" VARCHAR, "TOILET_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "VENTILATION_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "MENS" VARCHAR, "MEN'S_VENTILATION" VARCHAR, "MEN'S_FLOOR_DRAWN" VARCHAR, "MEN'S_TOILET_STALLS" VARCHAR, "MEN'S_HAND_SINK" VARCHAR, "MEN'S_TOWELS" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S_VENTILATION" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S_FLOOR_DRAWN" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S_TOILET_STALLS" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S_HAND_SINK" VARCHAR, "WOMEN'S_TOWELS" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "PHYSICAL_FACILITIES_1" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "LIGHTNING" VARCHAR, "KITCHEN" VARCHAR, "STORAGE" VARCHAR, "REFRIGRATION" VARCHAR, "JANITORIAL" VARCHAR, "INTERIOR" VARCHAR, "FIXTURE" VARCHAR, "FOOTCANDLES_1" VARCHAR, "FOOTCANDLES_2" VARCHAR, "FOOTCANDLES_3" VARCHAR, "FOOTCANDLES_4" VARCHAR, "FOOTCANDLES_5" VARCHAR, "EXTERIOR" VARCHAR, "WINDOWS" VARCHAR, "GLASS" VARCHAR, "SCREEN" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "PEST_CONTROL" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "WALL/CEILING_PIPES" VARCHAR, "SANITATION" VARCHAR, "DOORS" VARCHAR, "SELF_CLOSING" VARCHAR, "RODENT_PROOF" VARCHAR, "VERMIN_PROOFING" VARCHAR, "FOUNDATION" VARCHAR, "ATTIC_VENTS" VARCHAR, "WINDOWS" VARCHAR, "TYPE_SCREENS" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "GENERAL_FOOD_SAFETY_REQ" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "APPROVED_METHODS" VARCHAR, "DEFROST" VARCHAR, "FROZEN_FOOD" VARCHAR, "FOOD_WASHING" VARCHAR, "PRODUCE_1" VARCHAR, "FRUITS" VARCHAR, "GRAINS" VARCHAR, "VEGETABLES" VARCHAR, "SEPERATE_FROM_CONT" VARCHAR, "RAW" VARCHAR, "PRODUCE_2" VARCHAR, "STORED_BULK" VARCHAR, "STORAGE" VARCHAR, "FIFO" VARCHAR, "REFRIGRATAION" VARCHAR, "STORAGE_TEMP" VARCHAR, "HUMIDITY" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "FOOD_SAFETY_CERTIFICATION" ("CUSTOMER_ID" INTEGER,"OWNER" VARCHAR,"MANAGER" VARCHAR,"EMPLOYEE" VARCHAR,"NAME1" VARCHAR,"NAT'L_REGISTRY1" VARCHAR,"PROMETRIC1" VARCHAR,"SERVESAFE1" VARCHAR,"EXPIRATION1" VARCHAR,"NAME2" VARCHAR,"NAT'L_REGISTRY2" VARCHAR,"PROMETRIC2" VARCHAR,"SERVESAFE2" VARCHAR,"EXPIRATION2" VARCHAR,"COMMENTS" VARCHAR,"FOOD_TEMP" VARCHAR,"DISHWASHER" VARCHAR,"DANGER_ZONE" VARCHAR,"COOLING_FOODS" VARCHAR,"THAWING" VARCHAR,"REHEATING" VARCHAR,"THERMOMETERS" VARCHAR,"FIFO" VARCHAR,"HANDWASH" VARCHAR,"COOKING_TEMP" VARCHAR,"FOOD_POISONING_TYPES" VARCHAR,"EVEDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "FOOD_FROM_APPROVED_SOURCES" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "RECEIPTS" VARCHAR, "DELIVERY_DOOR" VARCHAR, "AIR_CURTAIN" VARCHAR, "VELOCITY" VARCHAR, "OFF_LOAD" VARCHAR, "INSPECTS" VARCHAR, "RODENTS" VARCHAR, "WARNING" VARCHAR, "SHELL_FISH" VARCHAR, "GULF_OYSTER" VARCHAR, "FOOD_OUT_OF_TEMP" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTO" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "FOOD_FACILITY_SITE_FACTS" ("CUSTOMER_ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL UNIQUE,"DBA" VARCHAR,"DISTRICT" VARCHAR,"CITY" VARCHAR,"ZIPCODE" VARCHAR,"ADDRESS" VARCHAR,"SEAT_NO" VARCHAR,"PHONE_NO" VARCHAR,"OWNER" VARCHAR,"PERSON_IN_CHARGE" VARCHAR,"WEBSITE" VARCHAR,"EMAIL" VARCHAR,"FACILITY_TYPE" VARCHAR,"SQ_FOOTAGE" VARCHAR,"NO_OF_SEATS" VARCHAR,"ALCOHOL_SALES" VARCHAR,"LTD_PREP" VARCHAR,"BUSINESS_LICENCE_NO" VARCHAR,"EXPIRATION" VARCHAR,"COMMENTS" VARCHAR,"EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "FOOD_DISPLAY_SELF_SERVICE" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "SELF_SERVICE" VARCHAR, "LIDS" VARCHAR, "UTENSILS" VARCHAR, "HOW_OFTEN_CHANGED" VARCHAR, "SCOOP" VARCHAR, "SNEEZ_GUARD" VARCHAR, "DISHES" VARCHAR, "CROSS" VARCHAR, "SENITATION" VARCHAR, "MAINTANANCE" VARCHAR, "MECHANICAL_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "SERVICE_OF_UTENSIL" VARCHAR, "TIME" VARCHAR, "PRPER_FOOD_LABELING" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS/LINES" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "STORED_DISHES" VARCHAR, "CUPS" VARCHAR, "DAMAGED_DISHES" VARCHAR, "UTENSILS" VARCHAR, "LINES" VARCHAR, "COOLING_EQUIPMENT" VARCHAR, "COOK_WARE_STORAGE" VARCHAR, "CONDITION" VARCHAR, "STORAGE_LOCATION" VARCHAR, "NAPKINS" VARCHAR, "SANITATION" VARCHAR, "ADEQUATE_CAPACITY" VARCHAR, "HAZARDS" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "EMPLOYEE_HEALTH_AND_HYGENE" ("CSTOMER_ID" INTEGER, "COMUNICABLE_DIESEASE" VARCHAR, "WIPING_BAGS" VARCHAR, "DISCHARGE" VARCHAR, "LOCKERS" VARCHAR, "PROPER_HAND_WASH" VARCHAR, "RESTROOM_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "HANDWASH_STATION" VARCHAR, "HAIR_RESTRAINT" VARCHAR, "GLOVES_USED" VARCHAR, "WOUND_CARE" VARCHAR, "FOOD_SAMPLE_TESTING" VARCHAR, "GARMENT_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "HEALTH" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "DISH&WARE_WASHING" ("CUSTOMER_ID" INTEGER, "TYPE_OF_COMPARTMENT_SINK" VARCHAR, "PLUMBING_ISSUE1" VARCHAR, "QUATERNARY_AMMONIA" VARCHAR, "IODINE" VARCHAR, "HOT_WTR_SANIT_TEMP" VARCHAR, "PLUMBING_ISSUE2" VARCHAR, "HOT_WATER" VARCHAR, "TEMP" VARCHAR, "DISHWASHER_TYPE" VARCHAR, "WAQLL_CONDITION" VARCHAR, "SANITIZER_LEVELS" VARCHAR, "CHLORINE" VARCHAR, "SINK_OR_DISHWASHER" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "CORRECTIVE_ACTIONS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "CONSUMER_ADVISORY" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "TRUTH_IN_MENU" VARCHAR, "MAJOR_CHAIN" VARCHAR, "TRANS_FAT" VARCHAR, "SCHOOL" VARCHAR, "PROHIBITED" VARCHAR, "CALORIES" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVEDINCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR) CREATE TABLE "COMPLAINS&ENFORCEMENTS" ("CUSTOMER_ID" VARCHAR, "PLAN_SUBMITTED" VARCHAR, "APPROVEL" VARCHAR, "CERTIFICATE_OF_OCCU" VARCHAR, "PRIOR_INSPEK_REPORT" VARCHAR, "LAST_INSPECTION_DATE" VARCHAR, "PERMIT_STATUS" VARCHAR, "POSTED" VARCHAR, "EXPIRATION" VARCHAR, "PERMIT_DISPLAYED" VARCHAR, "INSPECTION_REPORT_POSTING" VARCHAR, "COMMENTS" VARCHAR, "EVIDENCE_PHOTOS" VARCHAR)

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