Well this is a tough one for me. Since I'm developing an enterprise based solution, the amount of information that can be displayed in a given page, can be overwhelming. How do you balance the right information for the right user. It's such a difficult task. The only way I can think of is to allow the user to customize what's displayed. With that said, for a basic entry page, #3 is OK, but getting the right info to the right user, #3 doesn't do it. I prefer #2 and I do like the right side modules of #1 for displaying "quick info" as long as I can customize it. Note, I'm talking strickly UI and not load time and other the other things that make a great site.

Cool, I'm developing and sdlc app and I thought I could use this as part of the entry page. What you all think? It's targeted at mid-level enterprises but it's kind of funny? Any body know where this originated?

Anyone know what type of servers codeproject is running on? and how many are used to run the site. I recall seeing this info somewhere but can't find it on the site. Anyone know when the site will support asp.net?

Ok getting a little bit of clarity on the issue. But my next question is how can someone force a company to include their competitors software? Once again, (hypothetically speaking) can I force MS to include mine? I'm still missing something and I haven't quite put my finger on it:((

I don't understand this at all. If someone could enlighten me I would be greatful. If I remember correctly, did not SUN sue MS over this issue several years ago about MS making changes to Java? Didn't SUN ultimately win and restrict MS to delivering a certain version of their app for a certain number of years. Now SUN wants them to include an updated version when previously MS was restricted by what version they could distribute. And for that matter why does SUN have the right to include their products in the OS. Does that mean I have a right to include mine in the OS? I'm hopelessly confused and I wish someone could shed some light on this issue for me. I know I'm missing something and looking for some help understanding the issues. Thanks

try www.asp.net and look at the ibspyportal or ibspystore app. They have a 3 tier architecture and you can download the code to review. Also take a look at the architectural (sp) section of the forums as there are quiet a few discussions on this very topic. Hope its helpful.

Yep, you can build on line accounting apps. There are a couple of companies doing this now that are fairly successful. Take a look at http://www.intacct.com Oracle has a suite online as well as intuit. Hope this helps

Looking for a book on database programming, I'm using c#. Any recommendations

Yeap, I would be interested as well. Not that I use Oracle, but I'm curious as to differences between Oracle and MS Sql. Any insight would definately be appreciated.

For my edification, what's the real problem here? - Is it that articles are being posted that you don't want to see? - Is the lounge getting to many programming questions? - what is specifically wrong with the self- submitted articles? - Are the forum questions not appropriate for your level (i.e. you being advanced and many of the people using this site are not? - Are to many people people submitting articles with the intention of selling their wares? Not being critical here, just trying to get a better understanding and narrow down the problem area (90% of the solution is understanding the problem).

Unfortunately you need the .net framework in order to run apps. The framework has not been ported to the Mac. However, the framework is currently being ported to Linux via www.go-mono.com project which is rumoured to be porting it to the mac once they finsh. I've also heard that Corel was working on this for the Mac but who knows. Anyway, your app will not run.

If you app is being accessed or downloaded from the web, you can check the user agent of the request object. .Net adds the clr and version number to the user agent. Check out http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/download.aspx?tabindex=4 download section which uses the user agent to detect whether or not .net is installed. It's quick and simple. Hope this helps.

Looking for a spy application for the .net framework so I can see window messages. Anyone know of such app similar to spy++. Unfortunately I have vs.net c# personal which doesn't seem to come with this utility.

I've been playing with asynchronous streams and have a question. When I use the beginRead method for asynchronous reading, the for loop in the code below never gets called until the entire file(fairly large) is completely read(ie. mutiple begin reads and callbacks). I thought that the code should process the for loop while doing some reading of the file and when the read completes right it to the screen. This continues until the entire file is read thereby alternating the output from the for loop and the reading of the file. This is not occuring for me. Is there something I'm missing? I've tried this numerous times using different types of streams and the same thing occurs. Code snippet below: FileStream inputStream; // inputStream is a filestream public void Run() { inputStream.BeginRead(buffer,0,buffer.Length,new AsyncCallback(this.Callback),null); for(long i = 0; i <500000; i++) { if(i%10000 ==0) Console.WriteLine(i.ToString()); } } public void Callback(IAsyncResult ar) { int bytesRead = inputStream.EndRead(ar); // write output to screen }

Sorry all, didn't know where to place this message. Is there anyway to imitate the up, down, left, and right arrow keys using the normal keys on the keyboard. I hate having to jump to the numeric keypad or the arrow keys themselves inorder to activate them. What i would like is to keep my hands on the familar asdf jkl; keys. Thanks.

This article may be of some assistance. Please not the URL wrap http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp06102002.asp

I have the standard addition as well and ran into the same problems you have. However the ide is fairly customizable and I was able to add new wizards to create both a class library and the application config files (which are not present in the standard edition). In other words, when I select "add new item" from solution explorer a template is their for the creation of a class library. It's pretty simple. Checkout the following article. Just modify the template for your needs. http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/msnet/article/0,,10839\_1463201\_2,00.html If you need additional help, send me an email. I've got templates already created.

I have two assemblies (1.consoleApp1.exe, 2.Log.dll) Both assemblies use the same namespace and consoleApp1.exe has a reference to log.dll. My problem is that I can't reference an object from log.dll which is located in consoleApp1.exe. I get the following error message " namespace or type could not be found. Are you missing an assembly or namespace?" Also note, I can reference log.dll from consoleApp1.exe just fine. It's only the other way around where I'm having problems. I'm new to this, so any suggestions as to why this is happening would be great.

Here is the webpage running on gotdotnet regarding an updater component http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/appupdater.aspx

Anyone know of one besides Crystal reports? Looking for something that will work in an ASP model.