EF will see a .NET type of DateTime in your POCO and use the native DateTime datatype specified by the underlying data provider. It will not convert a DateTime to a "serial number" as you want because the serial number can be based on any arbitrary epoch. For example, UNIX uses 1/1/1970 00:00:00AM whereas .NET uses 1/1/0001 00:00:00AM. So, to each system, the datetime serial number will mean something different. Why even do this?? Why not just let the underlying database handle the storage and return the correct datetime without your code having to worry about conversion? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak

Install as a service as mentioned, and tell the sysadmin to block access to the configuration-screen. If you're in the Netherlands or in Germany, you'll need to inform your users and get their signature. I are Troll :suss:

Randor wrote: Heh, I remember the birth of PHP. I was not doing any Windows development in the mid 90's and was a Unix developer/sys admin. I haven't done any PHP development in over 10 years I would probably be lost in PHP5. The PHP language itself has come a long way. So you remember it's birth as a series of Perl scripts and being called "Personal Homepage"? :P I started at the time PHP 3 was released... Back then I was learning/tinkering in C and C++ in the 1990's, it was only when I started thinking I'd like to make a career out of software development that I looked for an easy enterance. Web site projects were plenty and didn't require a BSc. so I started learning JS, HTML and ASP. I hated ASP, looked for an open source solution and started with Perl which led me to PHP (thank god). It's annoying to develop in, because of the lack of any standard framework (at least a few hundred available -- with new ones popping up each week) unlike MFC, to provide your application with some structure. When fixing or working on existing applications, it can be like finding a needle in a haystack. One guys interpretaion of MVC and a front controller, actually turns out to be a extremely tightly coupled application bootstrap, front controller, routing, dispatching and more, in one monolithic class over 1000 lines. Lots of bad practice in PHP but there is a small community dedicated developers trying to change that by introducing patterns, OO best practices, architecture and more. Zend framework is a good start, with it's design issues and all. Cheers, Alex

It has nothing to do with windows... I have plenty of network drives mapped. My RHEL5 system shares a lot of folders under the samba and in my case I have 12 mapped drives working without much trouble. Just be sure that you don't have any limitation on your UNIX configuration. Hope this helps... :rose: [www.tamelectromecanica.com][www.tam.cat]

Vista is not bad, it is terrible for 90% of people I know of, including myself. But it doesn't matter, whatever you buy, you will keep buying and upgrading whenever MSFT tells you so. You get 5GB of crap installed every few years, excluding SPs, frameworks, studio; VM way is about the only way to handle the regular sheep-sudo-apt-get-hypnotised-and-ugrade mess.

Do you happen to know of any benchmarks that compare the old style to the new?

hat do you actually mean by schema? Do you refer to the MDF-file? If yes, then how have you taken it. Is it detached, just copied etc. The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

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Which is why I will never use code covered by the GPL in any project of mine, either professional or personal. I firmly believe that the GPL was invented as a way for less competent programmers (yes, I'm talking about you Stallman, you fat arrogant prick) to steal the work of their betters and claim it for their own. Software Zen: delete this; Fold With Us![^]

Thanks for the tips :)

I second the SharpDevelop. I just incorporated the editor into a source-code viewer I'm working on. It went pretty well. I've use the whole package and loved the WIX capability.

PCSpectra wrote: How can it not be anything worth recycling, is what I am trying to understand. Simple - what is left after the chemical reaction that creates power, has no value and is messy to deal with in a 'clean' way. If that were not so, market demand would have created a price for them. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Hi! If you by share mean tell you more, than maybe I will. I want to share ideas. I don't know if somebody will listen to them, but what the heck. I'm at a moment when I have many ideas but no time to actually program all the aspects of them. I'm not just a talk, talk guy, theory, theory, I'm the guy who does both, and yes I do sink my fingers into the keyboard for some hours, and if I do I'm hooked for a day or two just writing code, code, testing, debugging, the things. Well I come to some conclusions: 1. The programming methods I use, and hear been used are highly inefficient in contact with problems like AI, online graphic modeling, online graphic animation, online sound sintethizing, adaptive GUI development, game development and others. 2. Though progresses in programming languages are made, there is an inherent flaw in all of this, flaw which is perpetuated unconsiosly to future version of programming mediums. 3. This flaw is the way we see programming, if we see it as programming languages, lines of code, concepts and overconcepts of code arrangement, OS frame integration and so on, than we really aren't going to get out of this mess. We may go even further like programming is speaking a foreign language, and we got some point there, but do we really know what language is and what is the real connection between thinking and imagining and expression that is language, we can't say it, and I don't want to hear that scholastic mambo jambo and definition about language, been there, know how they see things. Well starting from this point I can say this: 3.1. Expression, complex expression don't needs the filter of language, is not about letters, caracters, mouse clik whatsoever, these are all filters, which pervade the true expression of thoughts, creativity and imagination. So there is no need for words, names, concrete space regions, so the keyboard and the mouse may be used just as a default input means till a more suitable interface to this task may be designed. 3.2. There will not be any haziness to this, all is very flexible, all is adaptable, all is pure expression, for this an adaptive input overlay between the computer actuator - that is concrete system resources, and a virtual semiotic adaptable interpretative agent will be needed. Actually though we don't know it we have a very solid semiotic system, each one of this capable of generating language scripts and expression in a way that any existent programum medium can't offer and will not offer in today's programming paradigm. 3.3. Building thi

PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Mac is like Beta; I'm out to create VHS." Haha...pretty much Blog Entry: 7 Software development best practices to make you more effective and productive PCSpectra :: Professional, Affordable PHP Programming, Web Development and Documentation

Another vote for ANTLR - the latest version (3.something) has support for Java, C#, C/C++and (IIRC) Python. It's now got performance comparable to lex/yacc. The documentation is a bit sparse unless you buy the book. Spirit is very cool - it's implemented as an embedded DSL using C++ expression templates and operator overloading. I've used it mainly for smaller grammars. It's slightly different from the ANTLR/YACC in that the lexer and parser are combined. This can be useful for some scenarios where lexer decisions are dependent on what parsing's already happened. The upcoming Spirit 2 (it's in beta, on the Boost SVN trunk) allegedly generates faster code than the current Spirit - but the compile time performance hasn't yet been optimised, so could be a bit slow.

I'm probably doing it wrong, but here's the scenario that works for me. I have two production web servers in a cluster, one development server, and one test server. I develop ColdFusion apps (yeah, I know, this is mostly a MS forum, but CF is what we've got here) on dev, commit changes as I complete them, update test and test them, then update both nodes of the production cluster to deploy releases. Decide on which directory is going to be my baseline for the code I want in source control. Create a repository directory where I want my "backup" to be. Do my initial load of files to the repository using TortoiseSVN. I did this a long time ago, and haven't done it much since, but I think it's the Add option. Move my directory of files to a safe place temporarily. Create a new directory and point it at the repository then use the TortoiseSVN update to "check out" the files I added. Satisfy my ingrained sense of paranoia and diff my backup directory against the directory I just updated to make sure everything is present and accounted for. Do the same thing on test and production -- updating empty directories with the code I had committed. It's pretty much safe to delete the backup directory now I don't know how to make use of the whole trunk and branch thing, so I have to make sure I commit my changes serially. Since I'm the only developer, this isn't generally a problem. I build stuff on dev, and when I get some block of new functionality completed, I commit all the changes related to that function at once, then update test and bring in other folks to QA. If everything tests fine, I update both production nodes afterward. I used to use WinDiff to compare directories and laboriously move each changed file manually, but TortoiseSVN has made that practically obsolete. NOTE: I do NOT have a SVN server installed anywhere. TortoiseSVN can write directly to a SVN file system without needing the server piece. -matt Matt Newby President, Matt Newby Enterprises, Inc. matt@mattnewby.com

Hey John, thanks for the feedback, it's always appreciated. I do certainly have to work on the text/marketing material, that much is clear to me now. :) Cheers, Alex Blog Entry: 7 Software development best practices to make you more effective and productive PCSpectra :: Professional, Affordable PHP Programming, Web Development and Documentation

Byte code is interpreted by an interpreter. machine code is processed by the CPU. basic is interpreted which run slow by reading text and translating. but if you transform it into byte code{function numbers} it will run faster by calling Function[number] in the function table instead of looking up a text command in a command list. java use to be interpreted but now you compile it into byte code to be interpreted faster. I think they also code the variables in a variable table as well as the functions, so there's no text to translate plus it make them smaller. Variable 100 {variabletable[100]} is quicker and smaller than looking up myvariablename each byte code tells whether it a command or a variable and how many arguments