eOpen : Another Microsoft Success
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I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
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I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forumYeah, the hits just keep coming. I've been trying to work out why in a console app, the Dictionary.TryGetValue method works, but in my full WPF project, it throws a 'KeyNotFound' exception.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forumI'm guessing the download manager is meant for situations where your connection is dropped, not the power. If the power kicks, there's no guarantee the resume file wasn't in the middle of being updated. That's not to say it shouldn't handle that situation (multiple resume files, use the last good one or something like that), but I'm surprised they even have a download manager, so I guess my expectations aren't that high. Cheers, Drew.
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I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forumunfortunate story, great quote. :-D
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Yeah, the hits just keep coming. I've been trying to work out why in a console app, the Dictionary.TryGetValue method works, but in my full WPF project, it throws a 'KeyNotFound' exception.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
but in my full WPF project
Extension methods? Marc
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I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forum -
I ordered VS2008 from my usual supplier. An email arrived with authentication code, a licence code, and a Microsoft URL https://eopen.microsoft.com [^] where I can download the software. About an hour into the site, I finally managed to get the 'Download Product' link to display (this is too long a story for here). So, click the link - 3.4 Gb download starts. You get a Web Download or Download Manager option. Our broadband is okish, and it reckoned between 4 - 6 hours for download. I was going to bed, so used their Akamai download manager, kicked it off and off I went. We had a decent storm and a powercut in the which rebooted my box. Ha! I have a download manager, so no problems. Fired up the download manager and a message like 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience'. Click the 'resumption file'. And the message 'A download was interrupted, a resumption file has been created on your desktop for your convenience' appears. So I click the resumption file (has anybody seen groundhog day). No problem I thought - delete the resumption file, delete the partial download (3.2Gb out of 3.4Gb - God has a sick sense of humour wrt his storm timing), go back to microsofts eOpen and start again. But the download products option has gone. Just my licence agreement. So - Microsoft provide a download manager which tells you it can resume over and over. They provide their software in a downloadable format (so you don't have ot wait for media) but you only get one chance. And I can't do a thing about it until Monday!! Not the most interesting of posts, granted, but the whole thing has been so infuriating, and wanted to get this down somewhere, on the offchance, somebody has used eOpen and might have the smallest of ideas how I can get to my download! Supper calls....
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forumI'm having the exact same problem. I figured it was my pirated subscription that I had pirated from a pirate who paid good money for it in China at a fishie bar. Good to see you are having the same problem. You call them and get it fixed for both of us. I'd call too but I don't need to tie up their phone lines you know.... :rolleyes:
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Ed.Poore wrote:
I'd recommend trying FreeDownloadManager
I use it all the time - I like the 'download all with...' option, and then filter on teh extension - cool. But, naively, I though a MIcrosoft Download manager, from a microsoft site might be ok for the job. The trouble is now, it it seems MS gives you one chance to download the file, then removes the link.
Knowledge is hereditary, it will find its way up or down. Luc Pattyn
and since what every time when i want to add button to this control one add two times posted in C# forum