thrakazog wrote: Oh, and VSS 6 Gah! Yep, we were the same. Thankfully already started moving to SVN but that's gonna be painful as well... But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen

that is a cost optimization. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] [My CP bug tracking] Nil Volentibus Arduum Season's Greetings to all CPians.

And it's LIFO. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]

Dave Sexton wrote: I can fully appreciate that it's not his fault that no-one reviewed his code (even though they were supposed to) Kudos for recognizing the (process) problem!  Good will definitely come out of your experience.  :thumbsup: /ravi My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

Erlang would be Hinduism - It's another strange language that doesn't look like it could be used for anything, but unlike most other modern languages, it's built around the concept of multiple simultaneous deities. What do you mean by these words "doesn't look like it could be used for anything"? Do you really know When "Hinduism" has begun? Programmer (ror)

Dave Sexton wrote: the role of a Development Manager Just to plugin the phone into the arse in the morning and yell non-stop at the team members; make astronomical predictions to the clients; goof-up deadlines and fabricate stories to 'cover up' the same. :-D Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare

Nope. Satips occasionally posts as "VRI SSK", but has finally been broken of the link with no context and isolated laugh posts. You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon

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Well, on my scale, 10 is escellent, 11 is fake, and 12 is Joel fanboy :) Another thing that you might like: distributing builds over multiple machines[^] You have a team large enough that it could make a difference for you. I have no experience with their product, but if you try it, I'd love to hear feedback. We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP My first real C# project | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist

I found the answer to my own question & thought I might as well share for the benefit of others. According to this blog post[^]: if you install VSTO 2005 SE on top of a clean VS 2005 Professional, you won't have the document-level templates. If you want to have them you need to have VS 2005 Team Suite/Team Edition or you need to install the previous version of VSTO: VSTO 2005. So VS 2005 Professional + VSTO 2005 + VSTO 2005 SE will give you the document-level templates! This really sucks as, according to this download[^], (x86): The original VSTO 2005 runtime is no longer available for download. Last sentence under "Additional Information". This gem doesn't appear on this download[^] which is the download you're brought to when you visit the VSTO 2005 Section[^] of the MSDN library. So it would appear that I'm basically screwed unless I can find the original VSTO 2005 runtime somewhere or shell out for Visual Studio Team Suite which is not a viable option for me as I only needed VSTO for a small contract role. Anyone have a copy of the runtime for me or point in the direction of a solution? I offered to do a workaround for the client using the Office 11 interop assemblies but the bloke was insistant on having it done with VSTO (even tho my approach would have used the same PIA's that VSTO uses). Again, thanks in advance & I hope the information I've gathered about this provides someone else with less headache than I've had to go through to get to this conclusion.

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I've seen these some time ago. No harm in posting them, since it is a nice refresher. Dave Sexton wrote: I think I'm going to call my next project "Chuck Norris". It's a sure way to guarantee it's unbreakable. Good idea. Maybe it would subconsciously intimidate users to the point that they don't ask dumb questions either :) "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Christian Graus wrote: You can't shake your fist at the universe and announce you want things to work differently. That's some bad news for the thread starter :-D Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero

Rather than email attachments in GMail drive, I would say Google Video or YouTube would be a better deal to strike. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

Depends on the question.

I've actually since left the company & didn't end up using it much after all. Pity tho, as it does seem to have potential. The basic "gist" of it (for want of a better word) is that it'd allow you independence from any particular RDBMS (which is particularly useful to small ISV's I'd say). That's the upside - the downside is that it does require a significant time investment to get a decent, reusable DAL API that you could plug in to the various incarnations of one's project. The reason I didn't get to use it as much as I would have liked to is that the project I was working on was way behind schedule and my team wasn't afforded enough time to get it (an iBatis DAL) up & running. Besides that, the company decided that they would be working exclusively with SQL Server in the future, and as such, the abstraction provided by using iBatis didn't provide any significant benefits. I ended up building a lightweight DAL that could be applied to pretty much any SQL Server database with only a little extra code involved (setting up SQL parameters for specific objects). Other than that it does the job pretty well. Good article fodder were I eloquent enough :) But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton

It is still strongly typed. If you initially create the variable as an integer, you cannot later store a string in there - the compiler won't let you. The scope is limited to the local method. Also, the benefit is more in being able to store anonymous types than anything else. After all, what would you define a variable as for an anonymous type? Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Introduction to AJAX (2nd May), SQL Server 2005 - XML and XML Query Plans, Mock Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services... Never write for other people. Write for yourself, because you have a passion for it. -- Marc Clifton My website