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Hi, When things get handled out of order, as in multi-threading, you can't handle all possible mishaps with a single "Last Claim ID Processed". What you need is a list/table of claims where each claim has a "status" field, so you can have any number of threads looking for and dealing with unhandled claims. And you will want at least three possible statuses: new, started, and done. (Obviously done would not be needed if a claim would be removed when done processing). :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

I haven't bothered with anything at my new job, but the most thought I put into when doing it at my old job was to figure out what to name the folder that announcements from the C*O's went into: At the time it was Pravda; in retrospect Isvestia Nyet Pravda would've been a more appropriate fit; which is why that place is my old job... Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

H.Brydon wrote: but one of my pet peeves of academic people is that they teach coding in a way that you are writing a program from scratch, using perhaps some libraries but otherwise your own code, and always from a fresh start... "original authorship" Nothing in the OP suggests that the person is a teacher/student - they are a programmer working for a school.

If you are just getting started: 1) Get incorporated (so you don't lose your pants) 2) Get liability insurance (you will probably need at least $2,000,000 to obtain any "govt" contracts)

if you had a status object with an Exception field, then you'd test for an exception as follows: if (status.Exception != null) // oops, something bad { ... } alternatively, you could have a "computed" property Success as follows public class Status { ... public Exception Exception { get; set; } ... public bool Success { get { return Exception == null; } } ... } then use it as follows: if (status.Success) // cool, all good! { ... } If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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Thanks for the advice. Btw, your site looks very nice. The shopping cart has a very smooth feel to it :)

Okay I just went cross eyed trying to relate Linq to database design. I'm sorry but I need to go back to the fundamental of the underlying data structure. Create the following tables Person Locations/Addresses(these are probably the same thing as a Location will only have 1 address presumably. PhoneNumbers has a foreign key PersonID lnkPersonLocation - allows many to many links between location and person with a FK to both tables Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Yes, you are certainly creating a valid extension to the Trophy class via using the 'partial keyword, and I assume you realize that both the original and added classes should/must be declared with the partial keyword: public partial class Trophy If I assume, based on what you present here, that 'Trophy is not a static class, then you are going to be creating instances of Trophy: you'll be using the instances like this: Trophy tp1 = new Trophy(); Trophy tp2 = new Trophy(); tp1.theTrophyLevel = Trophy.TrophyLevel.Platinum; tp2.theTrophyLevel = Trophy.TrophyLevel.Silver; String level = tp1.theTrophyLevel.ToString(); "Anyone who shows me my 'blind spots' gives me the gift of sight." ... a thought from the shallows of the deeply shallow mind of ... Bill

Mark Nischalke wrote: Page.Unload event my mistake I was not clear, I was referring to the unload for javascript against the body of the page. When I read this last night I was scratching my head thinking what are you talking about Page.Unload?? :confused: when I woke up this morning and read it all again I was like Homer Simpson... :doh: I believe from the Global functions you should be able to find when the session starts. As far as finding when the user leaves the site... Well I think there are many approaches to find this out, each of them with their own download. If you are trying to get something as close as possible to the real event (the user is no longer at your site) then I imagine you are going to have to tie it all into some interval based javascript code that is calling a server function. For that matter though I wonder if you could also just lower your session timers on the web server and once again use one of the Global functions. I am sure this would make a great article (one probably already exists) to write sometime. :) as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged

It restricts T to be a reference type. There's some information about it on MSDN:Constraints on Type Parameters[^]

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I think you're going about it wrong. I think the Model class should have the Year property, but not the Color property. Although the Model class could have an AvailableColors collections.

I don't trust warranty services much anyway. never do buy the extended one. I'd rather eat the cost and fix my own machine so that I know its done right AND they don't "accidentally" erase my hard drive when they were just supposed to replace a different component. Yeah I have heard of many horror stories along those lines. My work and setup are more important to me in the long run than the money to fix something out of pocket, even if it is expensive and could be covered. And no I'm far far from being rich or even well off, I just have a higher value on my time than anything(3 kids, wife and a stupidly busy job leaves little room for BS..). Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow. You can't scare me, I have children.

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Agreed. :)

Thanks for the help. My solution kept unfortunately having issues using the above formats within my excel report however when I placed a comma in front of the date, it worked fine. String reportDate = "'" + DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy"); Thanks.

There aren't any tutorials for this, its up to you to devise a scheme that works for you and implement it. I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt