Give the laziest man the hardest job and he will find the easiest way to do it. The gimme shame belongs to parents who are emotionally unavailable for their children.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

A lasso or a noose. Care to provide an example of what you don't want?

Dwayne J. Baldwin

01 You have an off by one error. 10 It would be discrimination. 11 You understood thus far, ergo language.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Could also be a faulty toolbar, addin, BHO, virus, video driver or even low batteries or interference with a wireless mouse. "Note that when you point your finger at someone else, you always have three fingers pointed at yourself." :)

Dwayne J. Baldwin

MSE is free. For small businesses (up to 10 PCs) it is still free (which is almost better than free). Sure it is not perfect, nor is any other, but IMHO there is nothing less intrusive and more reliable. Hell yes.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Nice riposte, although one might consider something more recent such as Fast Pointerless Image Processing in .NET[^]

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Even in c#, pointers are unsafe and unmanaged and must be declared as such. You need to jump through hoops to point to managed objects. You can use complex and often misused compilation tricks in either c# or vb.net to create a QuasiManagedPointer, but it not recommended, period. C++.net is the only way to go should you ever happen to really need to waste time in that direction. Complexity is in the eye of the developer, especially with newbies who may look at this from a totally different perspective and use top pixel counts and thresolds to determine an image change (otherwise known as motion detection). .net managed code uses the CLR in any language. Stop spreading this nonsense. :)

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Most likely because the vb.net folks have already been productive, completed their projects and are on vacation before deciding what to do next. Meanwhile, the C#ers are still searching for curly braces and brackets in their own code so many of you come out of the closet at a prearranged time to see how others manage. As with any new language either spoken or written you will find there is alwyas a learning curve before you can ask a reasonably good question that actually makes sense. Inexperience is far more noticeable by looking at thread lengths and source code comments. C#ers drag it out with recursive banter while vbers get it right the first time. Lastly, except for semicolons, C# comments can often be converted directly into vb code. Pure simplicity by design.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

That is a much better choice of using a proper tool for the job. Still not as good as being parsed into a database for searching and reporting. "Give a child a hammer and the world becomes a nail."

Dwayne J. Baldwin

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I know they were wrong. For more entertainment, press Windows+Left (or Right).

Dwayne J. Baldwin

I use VS2010 everyday and refuse to use anything less for any development, period. There have been some great advances and most will save you time and money during development. Sure there is a learning curve and some issues with designers and the IDE, but at the end of the day, it does what needs to be done and more. Switching between versions is just a time waster. If your machine meets Windows 7 requirements, you should be using Visual Studio 2010 now. Any comfort excuses will end along with mainstream support in about two years. Serious developers consider extra RAM, multiple monitors and SSD to be even more productive.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Ask yourself the same subject with human languages instead of computer languages. Compared to English, Chinese sounds fast and French is backwards. Spanish and Italian are close as are Russian and Ukrainian. Language in any book (compiled) is faster than real time translation (interpreted). Working in human terms (base 10) involves translation from electronic calculations (base 2 or binary). Numeric computations are subject to formulae and translated results are very subjective. Your code will probably reuse math functions from libraries. Unless one writes the entire codebase from scratch, they are scaffolding on other interpretations, perhaps in other languages which may or may not affect overall speed. Which human language crunches numbers fastest and which human crunches numbers fastest are two very different things. You really need to specify the task to quantify any performance. Lastly, Fortran may be an excellent opportunity for personal understanding, but it is not as easy to implement and will hardly pay your bills any faster.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Note that extension methods with the same name and signature as an interface or class method will never be called. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx[^]

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Throw new UserFellAsleepAtTheKeyboardException(me)

Dwayne J. Baldwin

.net = productivity. Productivity = results. Period. For hundreds of millions of Windows machines, vb.net and c# are simply more productive than anything else so far. Script kiddies and native code usually means there are no deadlines and someone else is paying the bills. .net puts a roof over your head and food on the table. Seriously.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

The neatest way would be to pre-allocate (insert) 100 (or 500) records in your table. Your stored proc should simply update the oldest record using an implicit autocommit transaction. The data type used to determine the oldest record depends on the possible update frequency. This guarantees your original request of maintaining max x records at all times.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

http://www.techduke.com/2007/07/15/managing-favorites-in-internet-explorer-7/[^] I hope this is of some help to you.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Actually, you can use a shared link in your favorites bar, but Windows opens up a new file explorer window. This new window supports refreshes and opens links in the currently open IE.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

If you are the publisher to other subscribers, I would write a simple app to generate an RSS feed on your special moderated folder. If you want others to publish to your feed unmoderated that's a really dangerous path. Need more info. It is pretty difficult to guess what you are trying to do, nevermind how to do it.

Dwayne J. Baldwin

Compared to actual development time, C++ is an order of magnitude less productive than vb.net.

Dwayne J. Baldwin