Snow White made the mistake of thinking 7up was a drink :-D Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

We're living the "we only eat and drink what we like" lifestyle ;) With plenty of sugar and no exercise I wouldn't call it healthy though :sigh: Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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Thank you so much for your answer.. lmoelleb wrote: The first suspicious thing I see is you call an async method SendMsgAsync() without waiting for it. This means your Main method can execute the code following myprog.sendMsg() before the message is put on the network. You was right, I was able to make it run by putting a Thread.Sleep(5000) after myprog.sendMsg(),is not optimal but it work for now. lmoelleb wrote: You should make your Main async as well and await the async calls - then it will not terminate before completion (and you will also see any errors). You might also when googling find advise to call .Result or .Wait. Those are excellent advise for people who like to debug why there software occasionally hangs after they make a completely unrelated change. Sure you can use them if you know how it really works under the hood - but that is not a good topic for a beginner. I gonna check this. Thank you so much for your help!

Yep, that's the one. I'm old enough to know better than to lecture people. And thanks. Sig has reached stability at last :) Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

Not your specific problem, but otherwise, Welcome to my world. ed

David O'Neil wrote: Kind of reminds me of The Shining. The Norwegian one I presume? (Black Jazz). I'm not hearing the Swedish one :D Not a huge fan of 80's music, so I'm not going to sit out the entire 3.5 hours :laugh: Nice list though, not the artists we all know. Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

Thanks ! Richard Deeming wrote: If the collection class is public, then trying to further restrict the type ... In this case, the 'OuterClass is public; the whole point of this (encapsulation) is allowing access to the internal collections inside that outer class only by methods I expose. I think you are reading into this some broader issue. Richard Deeming wrote: ... to those in the current assembly, or an approved list of assemblies, is usually a sign of a broken design. I can easily imagine a scenario where a design of an outer class with private internal classes would be very useful. But, that is not relevant here. cheers, Bill «The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Good backups? Another reason to have them. FYI you can backup Outlook contacts by File Export and selecting whatever format you want. I usually do something like that about 2-4 times a year for contacts. They don't change much. Usually some story like this reminds me to update them. To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

My granddaughter (1 year old) got a hold of my laptop and "typed" some gibberish which happened to be on a new Chrome tab and she got the Yeti. Cute when you aren't trying to find something for work. I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

The first chill song, and I'm in love! Fantastic! Thanks! Looking forward to the rest as I sit here making out an email! Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

Sander Rossel wrote: There are two schools of thought. Those with a background in business see developers as commodities and fully believe that programmers will program themselves out of a job field. The idea is that in some distant future, jobs like project manager, product manager, and marketing manager will still be critical but programmers themselves will be extinct as a result of the tools they created. Which is a train of thought that has existed as long as computers existed in any real form. Which went hand in hand for the same amount of time with the claim that in 'just a few years' everyone will have a robot that will do your housework and other day to day chores. Myself I am still holding out for the faster than light space ship. But I suspect that outside of movies none of those will ever exist.

David O'Neil wrote: So you are more oriented towards this? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I've shared quite a few soundtracks in the SOTW, so you know what I like :D Somehow these two came to mind though ;) DuckTales - The Moon Theme Acapella - YouTube[^] Street Fighter 2 - Guile Theme Acapella - YouTube[^] Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

Something new: [Xenia - Live @ Radio Intense 16.3.2021](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHvzt4R8VI) Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

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I'm rooting for Ukraine, but this song definitely won't be my SOTW :~ Thanks for sharing though :thumbsup: Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

Sure, that will do the same thing, just with slightly less scalability for billions of records. :) But really most of the complexity in the patent is the incredible detail needed to get a patent that might survive being attacked by big companies with lots of lawyers. The basic idea is very simple: packing several variable-length records into a fixed-length bucket, so you don't need a pointer to every variable-length record but can instead keep many of those records directly in the table. This saves space (fewer pointers) and time (fewer random accesses to storage or memory).

Aren't you a bit of a health hazard, secreting all over the place? Software Zen: delete this;

I think recalling passwords for users is simply wrong. It exposes a vector of attack, and if attacked, their passwords are then known. I cannot think of a good reason to store someone's password. If they need a new one, let them generate it via an email link, etc. But the number of times a site has emailed me "Thanks for signing up... Remember your password is: abc123", and I am thinking to myself...WHY? I usually go and delete the account... Super Long passwords, and a password manager. Done.