Surely if the delivery date is 6 months away then that would be a scrum marathon rather than a sprint?

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Again, not exactly, but Slickedit free gadgets[^] have a command spy window which shows a history of all the actions you have performed in VS, and the shortcut keys that you could have used.

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

I'll second the SAMS one.

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VistaDB[^] is a useful database that can be hosted in a medium trust environment (ie, it works in standard hosted asp.net environments), and is keyword compatible with SQL 2005. It's written in .net itself, and only requires that the assemblys are uploaded with the site (or you can ilmerge them into your own site assembly). You could hook that up to an asp.net application fairly easily if you only want to gather data (ie, record form filling), and are not bothered about user authentication etc...

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Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard[^] can script databases to a text file. Rather useful, and can also be run from the command line. ChrisB

Marc Clifton wrote:

the major difference is going to be your attitude toward VB.

Yes, I think it's my attitude I'm going to have to get over. Reading through the document that Vasudevan mentioned earlier I was sort of surprised at the amount of dumbing down there seems to be, with keywords like Friend instead of internal, Nothing instead of null and others like MustInherit and NotInheritable. It kind of reminds me of the LOGO language I used to use in school. Plus there's the lack of {} and ; But I suppose if I'm getting paid to do it......

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Yes, but I'm using it at the moment, and I like what I see :). I know that realistically I'd be using whatever they are currently using.

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Perfect, I'll have a good read of that. Cheers,

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

So I'm currently looking for new work, and the possibility of an interesting opportunity has come up with a local company. The only problem is they use VB.net. I think they had a legacy codebase in VB originally. I've only coded VB when I absolutely have to, although I can look at VB.net code and roughly work out it's intent. I can't imagine it would be too hard to transfer from c# to vb.net, but are there any major differences between the languages? For example, I'm sure I've read pieces recently about various new MS technologies like Linq and WPF and .net 3.5 language features that are only available in c# at the moment. Did I imagine it, or is it possible to use every feature of .net equally well in either language? Cheers (and I know I'll be joining the dark side). :)

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

And my wife's a Loose Woman[^]! :-D

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It doesn't entirely answer the question, but my sons school uses www.parentmail.co.uk[^] to send mail home to parents. It's an online service that lets schools mail parents with full audit trail. I'm not sure if it's UK only, though.

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Possibly not exactly what you're looking for, but have you looked at the "Developers Highway Code"[^] from the MSDN security center. MS usually hand it out at various events, and they have a PDF version for download. It's got a load of "tick lists" about what to do with security in different scenarios. Anyway, it's free. I've also previously purchased "Writing Secure Code" by M Howard, but it's quite basic, and nothing that you can't get from MSDN.

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Chris Maunder wrote:

Font sizes are a little awkward. It's using the Gecko engine but does not render like Firefox

Joel[^] has a good post about the differences in font rendering in Safari 4 Win. Basically it stems from "Apple's legacy in desktop publishing and graphic design"

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Swap two brains without using a third brain[^] (Using XOR) MyBrain = MyBrain ^ YourBrain; YourBrain = MyBrain ^ YourBrain; MyBrain = MyBrain ^ YourBrain; :)

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Prakash Kalakoti wrote:

MyBrain += TempBrain;

Now that would be good. Just think how many brains you could add to your own. You could become superhuman. You could take over the world... Bwa ha ha ha.... :mad:

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Do you mean physically moving the brain from one body to another, or simply downloading all the information contained in a brain into another brain (possibly using a third temporary brain as backup storage)? TempBrain = YourBrain; YourBrain = MyBrain; MyBrain = TempBrain; I imagine it would be less painful than having your brain and spinal column removed and replaced (unless you could find a way to detatch the nerve endings from the brain, although I expect that HP Labs are probably working on some kind of connector - now, where's my nerve splicing tool?). :)

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Nic Rowan wrote:

Razer Copperhead, Razer Diamondback

I got myself a Razer copperhead a couple of years ago, and found that the shape hurt my hand. The lump was too high, and bent my wrist at an odd angle. Try before you buy!

ChrisB ChrisDoesDev[^]

Personally, I think you've done the right thing for you and your family. It takes a lot of courage to ask for help. ChrisB