Be sure to check your BIOS and flash it up to the latest stable version. There may also be some BIOS options for drives and boot order. Also, my new PC has 6 internal SATA connnectors, but only 4 of them can be used for bootable drives. Make sure the SATA drive you wish to boot from isn't connected to a data only connector.

Dale Thompson

I don't think they have been writing code as bad as MFC or ATL in many many years.

Dale Thompson

GuimaSun wrote: the boss consider C++ slow and unsafe Oh god. Wonder what he thinks of C#? It sounds like you job isn't gaining you marketable experience anyhow - get the hell out!!! Dale Thompson

Heath Stewart wrote: Every version of the .NET Framework runs side-by-side Well, as long as the 1.0 Framework is installed before the 1.1 Framework. Try it the other way around sometime! Dale Thompson

I've been underutilizing SlickEdit for many years now (it is so loaded with features, I don't think I could ever use it to full capacity). I originally started using it while doing cross platform application development between OS/2, Windows and Unix (where they had a command line version). In the last few years, I have continued to favor it over Visual Studio. While Studio keeps getting betterm so does SLickEdit. SlickEdit supports the .NET projects very well (it can compile and even debug applications). Slickedit has GUI Java UI development tools, but these tools are not available for Microsot projects. For the most part - I develop using SlickEdit, switching back to Visual Studio only for graphical editing. It is much easier to write well structured/maintainable code in SlickEdit. The support for SlickEdit has always been excellent. I have found it to be the most valuable development tool I have ever used. Dale Thompson

Reiss wrote: Dale, If you single click the url it does what you say - however a second sigle click will then just select the part of the url you want. Hope this helps Jay Jay, This is what I would like to happen - but it doesn't. Clicking the URL only either selects the whole URL or just puts an I-beam cursor in the text. The single word click select doesn't work. Dale Thompson

I just got a "new to me" PC at work and I'm moving in. I do not know how to setup IE to match my old PC. On my old PC, I could select single words in the address edit control with a single click (delimited by the :,/ chars ). This behavior works similarly in Explorer and the edit controls of other applications.
When I try selecting the URL address on the IE on my new PC, it only selects the whole URL.
Any suggestions?
Both PC are running XP and IE with all of the latest updates.
Thanks for your help - I never knew how much I've grown accustomed to this! :) Dale Thompson

Usually, they give away too much in a movie - sort of blowing the conclusion. I think attributing so many critical elements to some hidden mystery is a bit of a reach (and more of an indication that the script is really weak). ;) And in retrospect - Phantom Menace was better. The only redeeming parts (to me) from EP2 were the city chase scene and Yoda opening up a can of whoop ass on Count Dooku. Neither of these were as cool as Darth Maul's makeup! :cool: But - both of these new movies were like continuations of Obiwan's spirit taking about a "certain point of view" with Luke! ;) Dale Thompson

What more could I want? Maybe a script! I don't know about you guys - but I'm one of those huge Empire Strikes Back fans! ;) It just seems to me that since Lucas had 15 years to wait around that he could have had much better story ideas and scripting ready. There is no reason not to hold these movies to a higher standard. They certainly are some of the most expensive movies ever made, and they have really boosted the acting talent in them (over the originals - well, maybe not that awful Hayden Christensen - that wasn't "brooding", it was "whining!") Lucas could have had the help of any of the best SF writers in the world, but I doubt he alone even put a decent half effort into the story - and it shows! This movie felt more like a string of worn out cliches than an original story. I tried hard not but couldn't help from groaning at the part where Aniken rescues his mother just in time for her to die. Are we supposed to think that he wouldn't do anything for 10 years to find her or improve her condition or to know that she had married??? Are we supposed to think that Darth Vader wouldn't have noticed that he had his step family burned down in EP4? Are we supposed to believe that Amidala would fall for him just because he leers at her endlessly? All this and much more was really LAME. I think that EP2 was a really bad movie - certainly the worst of the Star Wars films. It really bugs me when I think about how cool of a movie it could have been. It's a shame. Dale Thompson

Paresh Solanki wrote: Maybe if you only have one client for that product, but if you have another client who wants a very similar product with the extra features, you have just sold your product for minimal extra work. Also your original client may see (and want) the extra features once he sees them in action. I don't want to rain on your parade, but it is highly unethical to build in features that the paying client requests you not to do, especially if the intention is to sell these features to other customers. I know this is sort of off topic, but contract service work needs to exactly follow the customer's wishes. Now - if they decide in the future to add these features - it is your right to remind them how easier this would have been to do in the beginning (and charge them extensively for it). Now - as a direct employee, I've constantly advocated future-proofing designs and features. This however, is because it is my duty to do what is best for my development organization and for the stockholders, as well as delivering what the user's ask for. In this case, I consider it more ethical to NOT follow the specifications because I am free to use my judgement to do what is best for all involved. Outsourced work does not have this luxury. Dale Thompson

Hehe - this reminds me of the last days of DEC. I was living up in Boston at the time, not working for DEC - but working with a lot of ex-DEC people. Several people were hoping DEC would rebound so they could go back.

I kept looking at DEC and how they cozied up to Microsoft. I was amazed at how a company like DEC would voluntarily (maybe even enthusiastically) allow another company to hire away so many critical people. The entire core team for NT had once been the core team for VMS (which for good or bad was DEC's most critical asset).

At least DEC didn't cry much over its own spilled milk. Dale Thompson

I have this program in which I'm adding TraceSwitches to various subsystems. I got it working fine in one subsystem - so I went ahead and added it to other subsystems. When I try to enable with other switched using my config file - the original switch now throws an XML exception (at the first call to WriteLineIf(), not when newing the TraceSwitch ). Here are my config files: The one that works: The one that blows up: Any ideas what's wrong with the syntax or how to enable multiple switches with a config file? Thanks Dale Thompson

Sure thing. Dale Thompson

Nick Parker wrote: So you can not do something like this? class myClass:Class1 { } class Class1:Class2 { } Of sourse you can - that's single inheritance. But you can't do: class myClass: Class1, Class2 { } The "solution" is to do the following: class Class1 {     void foo(){}; } interface IClass2 {     void bar(); } class Class2: IClass2 {     void bar(){}; } class MyClass: Class1, IClass2 {     Class2 m_implClass2 = new Class2;     void bar()     {         m_implClass2.bar();     } } // lots of public keywords missing! Hope this helps! :) Dale Thompson

Dale Thompson wrote: I'm trying to select a font that will display the original 8-bit OEM/IBM-PC8 font (with all the line characters, etc). Here is the font I'm using: System.Drawing.Font( "Lucinda Console", 10.2F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ( ( System.Byte )( 255 ) ) ); I've tried both 0 (ANSI) and 255 (OEM) for the last argument. The text buffers go through a few Encoding.ASCII.GetString() calls too. If anyone is interested, I found (guessed) the answer to this question. Unrelated to the problem - my code snippet had an error, it is "Lucida Console" (not Lucinda). But the key to the problem has to do with the "Encoding.ASCII.GetString()" calls The provided ASCII encoding only support 7 bit ASCII. This is where the translation from 16 bit Unicode to what is displayed happens - anything that is 128 or above isn't supported by the supplied ASCII encoding. The trick is to use the right codepage for the encoding. In this case, after a little research, I found that I needed to use the old IBM Codepage 437! So - using "Encoding.GetEncoding( 437 ).GetString()" corrects the problem and displays PC graphics characters! Hope this info is of use to someone out there! :) Dale Thompson

Christian Graus wrote: As a C++ programmer, the old way is to wrap it in a macro, so it occurs in place. I am writing image processing code, as you will see when Chris posts the first article. Is there a way to inline code in C#, do you know ? Image processing is an area where every clock cycle counts. Actually - as a C++ programmer, you would wrap it in an inline function. ;) Dale Thompson

Because the initial estimate wasn't worth the paper it was written on. I hate to say it - but I think the average person is likely to way underestimate the ammount of time it requires to do something. Then you add to that the requirements are usually very incomplete - and it gets even worse. Dale Thompson

Well, WIndows Forms is the future of shrink-wrapped, PC hosted applications. It may mean a big shift in how things are done - but at least you can finally us inheritance properly in GUI design. Dale Thompson

Hello, I'm playing around with Shripad Kulkarni's C# TELNET Client - mostly refactoring what he had done and expanding it out to support ANSI (and maybe VT-100 emulation). I've just finished implementing the rest of the telnet protocol. However, I'm having problems with the font selection. I'm trying to select a font that will display the original 8-bit OEM/IBM-PC8 font (with all the line characters, etc). Here is the font I'm using: System.Drawing.Font( "Lucinda Console", 10.2F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ( ( System.Byte )( 255 ) ) ); I've tried both 0 (ANSI) and 255 (OEM) for the last argument. The text buffers go through a few Encoding.ASCII.GetString() calls too. Thanks for your help. Dale Thompson

I personally like AMD over Intel, although Intel is rapidly improving (they let idiot marketting get in the way of being the technical leader, hence the RDRAM vs DDR SDRAM debacle). I also agree that a lot of RAM and a very fast disk drive is probably going to be more important in performance than AMD vs. Intel. Beware tho - right now it looks like the VIA chipsets have USB driver issues with XP. Windows 2000 may be a better OS choice. Dale Thompson