Hello All, I'm looking for recommendations on commercial-grade spell check components, and was hoping you might have some good advice. So far I've seen ComponentOne, RapidSpell, and Aspose, so I was wondering if there was a general preference for one of these three, or perhaps another one that I haven't discovered yet. Advice, comments & recommendations will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! :bob::bob: :-D :bob::bob: evan stone | software developer ------------------------------------------ santa rosa, ca, usa

"Includes multilingual support" LOL! Marketing-ese for: "It will do what you really want it to if you buy more stuff from us." :bob::bob: :-D :bob::bob: evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

Ian Darling wrote: Tortured by Ewoks, too Have you seen the trailer for Star Wars Battlefront?[^] ...an Ewok gets his due. :bob::bob: :-D :bob::bob: evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

...because they have a tendency to sprout legs and walk away if you don't. ;) (BTW, I only do this with books that I personally buy, not ones that the company reimburses me for) :bob::bob: :D :bob::bob: evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

My response is similar to Christian's... Generally I keep the ones I need at my place of employment, where I do most of my programming work - that way they are at hand when I need them for reference. However, if I'm reading up on a particular software development concept, discipline, process, etc., then I tend to keep it in my backpack and have it with me 24/7 so I can read it whenever I get a free moment... :omg: Hope this helps! :bob::bob: :D :bob::bob: evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

Hey, don't sweat the VB thing. Sure, you can program VB like a toy language, but that's no fun! ;) Check out some books to help you take your VB development to the next level. There are some great ones out there, and the following list are some publications that I've found to be extremely beneficial, and are sort of my "Desert Island VB Books" (most of these can be purchased used for under $20, and some for under $10), which I have come to rely on over the last few years: :bob: Effective Visual Basic[^], Developmentor Series, Ted Pattison, et al. :bob: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API[^] by Dan Appleman (a must-have if you're going to use the Win32 API, which happens when you run into VB6's inherent limitations) :bob: Visual Basic Design Patterns VB 6.0 and VB.NET[^] by James Cooper :bob: Doing Objects in Visual Basic[^] by Deborah Kurata (a.k.a. "Debbie Does Objects" ;) ) :bob: Programming Distributed Applications With Com & Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0[^] by Ted Pattison (a very important book if you're going to be working extensively with COM or COM+/MTS) The following books get honorable mention because they contain really useful information, but I'm including them separately because they're basically out-of-print (but you can still get them in the used section for under $10): :bob: Advanced Visual Basic 6.0[^] by Peter Morris, et al. :bob: Hardcore Visual Basic[

Allen Anderson wrote: we use Clearquest for bug tracking. It's a horrible piece of software We have a semi-nightmare scenario here at the place I'm working (I'm leaving in 3 days so I'll vent a little now), in which user bugs & enhancement requests are tracked in Remedy[^], and all of the QA bugs are tracked in Rational ClearQuest[^]. Both systems are... somewhat less-than-friendly, to put it lightly. ;) At my previous job, we used TeamTrack (an older version developed by TeamShare, I think), and it wasn't that bad. I think it was a bit of a headache to configure if you were the administrator, but creating reports wasn't half as painful as ClearQuest. Anyone tried DevTrack[^]? I've seen them at a couple of shows lately (SD West 2004 & GDC 2004), and was wondering if anyone could give any feedback on their product... evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

Chris Losinger wrote: WWJD? JWRTFM. LOL! evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

Perhaps I'll "gear up" for my new job starting on Monday - a new coffee mug would be sweet! ;) evan stone | petaluma, ca