Expert Coming wrote: Any ideas? Depends on what you mean by "projects". I work on 'deliverables'. Each of those represents a discrete business grouping of functionality which can and does include groupings like the following 1. One or more dlls. 2. A single executable (console or windows service) 3. Several executables. When each is delivered it is labeled in source control (vendor does not matter), built from that label, and only that label, and then delivered as a single module/release. Each deliverable is independent from the others and the expectation is that each can have their own project timeline, etc. Since the deliveries are independent each deliverable MUST be contained within itself. That requirement means that if a single deliverable is using some sort of "shared" functionality (such as a library dll) that that shared functionality MUST be represented as its own deliverable. This is true whether I produce the shared code or if I am using a 3rd party library. That is the only way to insure that the code is written to match what it will be delivered with and tested against the same.

It looks to me as if you've got a many to many relationship there. A battle joins many attackers to many defenders. So you would have a table Battles which has a unique BattleId, plus AttackerId and DefenderId plus whatever other information you want to hold against a battle (date, location, whatever). Then you have a number of options. One option would be to have an Attackers table which holds BattleId and CreatureId for all the attackers, and another table Defenders which holds BattleId and CreatureId for all the defenders. Or another option would be to have just one table BattleCreatures which holds BattleId, ArmyId and CreatureId where ArmyId is either the AttackerId or the DefenderId depending which side the creature is on. Whether you separate out Attackers from Defenders into two separate tables or whether you have them all together in one table is a bit of a judgement call. There are arguments for and against both options.

gamedev.net? Just racking up the postings

I am messing around with this one right now. The only thing I am not really liking so far is the need for a VPN connection to do the syncing with my servers, but this looks like it will do. Thank you very much. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo

You need to create a COM Callable Wrapper[^] which will expose the .Net assembly as a COM component. It can then be used from unmanaged code just like using a COM server. The following page has several links to how this can be done - Exposing .NET Framework Components to COM[^] «_Superman_» I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends. Microsoft MVP (Visual C++)

I'm using this and it works very well. Looks & feels like VSS 6. It's free for single user. Everything makes sense in someone's mind

Yeah, tried that just in case, didn't work. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo

What does your SQL statement look like? It should look something like this: SELECT PlayerName FROM Table WHERE UPPER(FirstName) LIKE '%JOHN%' OR UPPER(LastName) LIKE '%JOHN%' But if you really have to search ALL columns you will have to add a LIKE for each column name in the WHERE portion of you statement. Hope this helps.

Adar, I like the answer, but I think it's worth taking one step further. To understand Azure, it's likely easiest to first understand Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing). EC2 has several features all grouped under "cloud computing". The first fundamental feature is "Hardware ignorance". With an EC2 account, you can "spin up" a server with just a couple of clicks. They have some precut "images" of servers, so that with a couple of extra clicks you can get a "Server 2003, IIS installed, SQL Express Installed" server. Now you have your own server, you can setup your database and configure your websites etc. all via remote desktop (or SSH for the Linux people) And really that's it, just like that you're cooking. No hardware, no service contract, you just "pay as you go". Now, Amazon evolved features around this. The next big thing is shared storage (which Amazon has). So when you have a server configured, you can actually save the image of that server and then spin it up and down. Amazon also supports a storage engine that is web-accessible. Effectively you upload a file and you get a URL that can then be used to access that file. This makes is easy to distribute files. Then Amazon came around with SimpleDB. It's an Entity-Store database. It's not like a normal relational database. It's not easy to "join" items, but it's quick to access a specific item and it scales across servers. Plus your Entity accessible via URL. So what does this have to do with MS? They're doing a similar thing but a little bigger plans with lots of MS technology involved. For example SQL Data Services (SDS) is an Entity data store like Amazon's SimpleDB. Basically a scalable database, but it plays well with SQL Server and integrates with VS and LINQ, etc. They have an engine for managing your servers (which are virtually hosted), they have an engine for sharing files. But they also have integration with all of the other MS technology listed in the post above. White paper here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.pdf[^]

That worked great, thanks a ton. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo

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When faced with a need for good quality, conferencing video chat software arose earlier this year I went searching for freeware to do what I wanted. I found an application called ooVoo that is available in a free and subs based version, the free version gives you 3 way conference video and the subs based gives 5 way. Both had very good video quality even when conferencing. It does not need to be used for the 3-5 way only so it can be used for 2-5 way if subs based. It operates like MSN messenger and has a slight styling of Apple's conferencing tool.

I wrote an app once for a company that was attempting to catalog all the schools in America. It was freely distributed on floppy disk to school secretaries who filled in info about their school (how many home rooms, what was the school mascot, subjects, teachers, clubs, etc, etc) and sent the floppy back to the company's offices in TN. At that time, searching the database of schools was free (it's now charged), aimed at parents who were contemplating relocating. It paid off in two ways ... firstly, I had taken great care to identify the "average" school secretary and design the interface to suit, which seemed to work out well (lots of secretaries reported the ease with which they could navigate the menus, enter and save data). Secondly, it seemed to be a program that fufilled a social need and couldn't be justified in terms of humans we don't have to hire.

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Cool, thanks. Never even heard of that. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo

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You have achieved what you wanted to do for now. The function Control.PointToScreen() and the corresponding counterpart will be helpful at other times.

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