Not Madness, not Genius: just Business as usual. “The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet

Mycroft Holmes wrote: why would Microsoft build a converter from their platform to a competitor Apparently, based on the linked article, one cause of unpopularity of WP compared to Android is lack of apps. Suggested idea of that article will cause everyone to target Android. One will think: "Why would I learn WP programming when I can write Java that works both on WP and Android?" If they do the opposite, people like me will choose this new platform instead which I think might cause many apps to be written for both platforms and may solve the above mentioned issue.

And here comes their storage system: https://preview.onedrive.com/[^] This seems to actually be their strategy. A unified cloud service based family of products. Planning to move to Germany, looking for a job there! Looking for a Windows desktop programmer? I look forward to hearing from you! :-)

Sounds like a win. :sigh: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thermodynamics[^]

Hi Chris! VERY Nice to meet you here again. :) I hope this feature finds its way to your release catalog, although CP must be a 24/7 job for you already! :-D Cheers!

Was the gesture useful in decreasing design time for you? Gary R. Wheeler wrote: It sounds to me like you need to spend a little time learning how to use the resource editor efficiently for your favorite IDE. Like how? I have been using VisualStudio from version 6 to 2012 for the past 8 years and I find the job of using its tools to design a form a tedious repetitive task. Even though many times I don't use MS controls just as they are and have custom ones, but still many forms are created using standard controls and thousands of programmers are doing the same task everyday. Have you ever draw a form on paper? You'll not be engaged with details and that's why it's so fast. Also it seems to me that for us (humans!), it's more convenient to draw with a pen than to use mouse and keyboard.

Legal schmegal; outlaws, by definition, don't obey laws.

jschell wrote: it is far too simplistic to suggest that people are compelled to help other people One thing's almost clear to me, if after all the evolution process, our brain comes to the same conclusion of the worm, then I won't consider that an evolution or at least an effective one!! I believe here's an obvious difference between Psychology and biology. While psychology clearly talks about brain issues and devides people into healthy, normal and abnormal('normal' based on society standards, but 'healthy' I am not sure how), it is biology job to find out why. So I guess answer to such complicated questions are more easily found in Psychology if one isn't interested about very detailed information of how. jschell wrote: They could be either demented, coldly rational, disinterested, wildly laughing or absolutely furious and I would not be sure. Or rational smart people. Please consider this option as well. ;-) Planning to move to Germany, looking for a job there! Looking for a Windows desktop programmer? I look forward to hearing from you! :-)

We have had a lot of luck with this approach, and it has the salient benefit that the service can be administered simply from the administrative tools on the server, and restarted as needed. Further, it can have a very simple console monitoring capability that lets you see what it is up to in real time. Also, the very same service can interact with any sort of application, not just a web submittal app...

you're welcome. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets. I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).

Yes. :-D But I still don't know who said it first. Not that It changes the beauty of the sentence but to mention her/his name under the quote. "I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."      - I wish I knew who is this quote from

Thanks :) Nick ---------------------------------- Be excellent to each other :)

Thank you. It started very good and very happy already. I hope it's a fantastic year. :) "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself."    Yanni

Well. Glass screens was the last thing I saw (after you mentioned actually). What made me so amazed were technologies like what the doctor uses to more accurately look into an eye of a patient or the idea of having multiple keys inside a card, using voice for chatting, updating shop prices digitally or reading a digital newspaper. Everything digital and working better and more effective than how we use them nowadays. Maybe I'm too much interested in digital but this is the reason of programming even when I hardly earn enough money out of it. "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself."    Yanni

Dave Kreskowiak wrote: There is a VB.NET Power Pack that has a DataRepeater control in it that should do what you want. I just finished adding it to my C# project and it works great. It did exactly what I wanted. I don't know what to say to express my thanks. It saved me a lot of time. Your help is really appreciated. Thank you again and so much. :rose: :rose: "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself."    Yanni

MAVLegend wrote: When you download .net 3.0 or 3.5 from microsoft (which ever download it is) it will install .net 2.0 and 2.0 SP1 onto the PC before installing the extenstion for 3.0 and 3.5 I doubt. While I'm sure redistributables do, I've seen applications that claim they need .net 2 while there is client version of .net 3 already installed. It is possible for that fault to be a problem in that particular application setup that I encountered. I'm not an expert in the field of .net so I cannot surely say what's the problem. Now even if all kind of setup packages for all .net frameworks install previous versions as well and can coexist safely, is there anything wrong with my wish? It's not that hard to have a setup that does it, even I might create one for myself, and it helps having more options available. If a system admin notices he only needs .net 2 on one machine and 3 on another and both 2 and 3 on a third machine(say even because of a faulty setup) why don't give him the option when everything it needs is already freely available? "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself."    Yanni

Paul Conrad wrote: it serves as an educational tool for the developer community who want to learn how to implement such controls Wow! That's motivating. I am learning design patterns right now and had in mind a major upgrade to the overall structure of the control. Such a goal gives me a good reason to do that as well. Thank you so much. :) "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself."    Yanni

Hamed Mosavi wrote: I have just had a good one The feeling is mutual :) The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

Technically it is possible using boxing (http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive100.html[^]). You can use an object for your local variable, and assign any value type to it. If you pass this object as a parameter, its reference (address) is passed, so the called method can change the local variable of your class.