l a u r e n wrote:

.NET is the antithesis of what the web is about

Pulling ideology into a technical argument is, at the least, unprofessional. It is unfortunate we see it happen so often nowadays..

This, Ankh svn plugin for Visual Studio will handle everything for you, you just check out, commit, etc a solution and the plugin will handle everything for you.

Hello, reviewing ASP.NET to handle printing of a worksheet. Any suggestions as to what technology to use to handle it? I had Crystal Reports in mind (have previous experience using it on Windows Forms) however in vs2010 and .net4 it seems to be in beta. Any suggestions to handle this functionality? doesnt have to be a reporting tool. Any help or tips are appreciated, thanks in advance!

No, considering Apple changes its mind back and forth randomly all the time, investing into Apple as a platform is too risky. They haven't shown to care for the developer yet though they are slowly finding out they need to care more, i would feel like they would stab be in the back at the first chance because they really dont want an open platform.

You having many issues with vs 2010? I migrated an asp.net project to vs2010 to test it out and quite happy with it actually, no bugs and the ui feels more responsive than 2008 but then again this is subjective.

Hello there, We have this module at work who nobody knows where the source code is. It was behaving erratically on certain scenarios so i decided to decompile it (using DJ Java decompiler which btw works wonderfully) and found the problem line. Now the how to fix it, i can think of 2 ways: 1) I decompile everything, change the line and recompile The module is pretty large in amount of classes and submodules. I dont really feel confident that i can recompile everything right. 2) Editing the .class file somehow. Now i grabbed a class file editor that showed me bytecode, the method names and the variables declared in it, but no real way to edit a line out (or maybe hardcode a variable somehow). So basically i am asking for advice on option #2 or maybe some other option i am unaware of. Thanks

Or maybe this is a better way of phrasing this, Is there a way to target IIS 6 with Visual Studio 2010?

So i worked about a year with asp.net with vs 2003 and .net2. Looking to restart where i left with the brand new vs 2010 with asp.net webforms (mvc looks too different and i am a bit tight on time to relearn the whole thing). However my deployment server is a Windows Server 2003, can i work with VS 2010 asp.net webform project or would it be better for me to downgrade to a previous version of Visual Studio? Thanks in advance

didnt Google put up a free OCR tool recently?

some very nice advise, thanks!

Rozis wrote:

- Try to make the requirement list as good as possible, but always add a part that is open-ended on hour basis (with a time estimation)

Follow up question, how do you handle the open-ended part? list a cost of per hour on the contract and then on the road let them know how many hours it would take?

I was wondering how do people out there settle software contracts. Do you make a requirement list and sign on that? in what format? use cases, natural language? How do you handle estimating cost and time (and giving a budget based on that kind of unknown factors) when it seems clear the client isn't sure of what they actually want which means you will likely end up with an evolving prototype?