Hello, I am searching for inspiration ... I'm currently building an business application using Silverlight. To be honest, this is my first "proper" UI project in a long time, and I have had to do a lot of technology catchup - EF, MVVM, Prism, MEF/Unity - the list is endless - and I just hope that I'm on the right track ... Part of the requirment is to enable the administrator to add custom defined fields the core entities within the application. these fields will change between customers - so it needs to be data driven. For example, a particular customer may have a requirement for certain bespoke finanacial fields on a Order header. these custom fields would then be rendered at runtime into the SL page - and support all of the usual validation rules. The sort of functionality I'm looking for is similar to the custom lists you get in sharepoint. I had considered using (or integrating into) sharepoint - but then this give me an added dependency that I did not want. I am capabable of developing this whole framework myself, but before I dive-in, I thought I would ask to wider community if anyone is aware of any similar framework that would offer all (or part) of the functionality that I'm looking for. Regards, Gary.

I'm looking to get a Certificate that I can put on my CV ... I am considering a boot-camp, but there is a large choice of companies providing this ... Can anyone recommend a training bootcamp ? I currently looking at going to India (from the UK) to a company called Koenig Training in New Dehli. Has anyone any experience of this company ? Are there a Certified Microsoft Partner as they claim ? How do I validate this ? Any advice would be welcomed .. Regards, Gary Ranson.

I've just spent time documenting a new database model in Visio 2003 professional. I'm now at a stage that I need to build the DDL. I've just discovered that my version of Visio 2003 does not build DDLs !:mad: Is there any kind soul out there who would be prepared to take my visio diagram and return to me the SQL Server DDL ? :(( my email address is g a r y . r a n s o n @ c l a r a . n e t

I am a IT consultant supporting medium size PLC in the UK. The IT department are querying the use of ASP.NET for this project. They ask why I don't use pure ASP, they say there are security implications when implementing any .NET application. I believe that there are security implications on any application exposed to the internet. Is this a reasonable argument, or can I implement a pure ASP application which is more secure than the equivelent ASP.NET application ?

I'm sure this has been asked many times .... I have a potential customer that is currently a has a team of VB programmers. This team is looking at migrating to .NET. I have usggested to them that C# would be the way forward. How does the .NET community regard VB.NET versus C# ? My view is purely of a snob, and years of C and C++ developement. Does anyone have any convincing arguments, of C# over VB.NET. Currently my only argument is that C# is a more professional language, and has been designed specifically for the .NET environment. Any help ?

Hi, I'm sure there is a easy method for this, but I cannot see for looking ! Q. Is there any method to force the Nonclient area of a window to be redrawn/recalculated ? The only methods I can see, affect the client area of a windows. At the moment I am increasing the size of the windows then reseting it back to the original size. My other solution was to recreate the window. Both of thse solutions work, but they are obviously work-arounds, and I would like a more "professional" solution. Thanks, Gary Ranson.

Hi, Can you help ? I don't know how to phrase my question so I have written it out in serveral different ways. They all make sense to me but that is because I know what I want! And the question ? ....... If I inherit from a System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl I can use the inherited control as a container type control within the IDE, and drag-drop toolbox items into it. However if I inherit from a UserControl, the the ability to drag-drop controls into it seems to be disabled. What I am attempting to do is create a container control that can be drag-dropped onto a form and be used as any normal container control (eg. Panel). To do this I can inherit from the ContainerControl and all is well. As an extension to this I would also like to be able to inherit directly from the control and use it as a designer base. If I inherit from a UserControl, then I can use the default usercontrol designer, but I cannot then use the created control on a Form, and drag-drop toolbox items into it. Is there anyway of creating a container control, which is based on a UserControl, and use the created control within the IDE in the sameway as all the built-in container controls. Gary Ranson.

Anyone know how to change the available client area of a .NET Framework Form ? I have tried intercepting the WM_NCCALCSIZE message, but this doesn't do what was expected. Anyone got any suggestions, or even working examples of WM_NCCALCSIZE ?