How about having a Microsoft Expression (Blend/Web/Design) forum under Vista->WPF as Expression Blend (which i am trying out) appears to be not that intutive as claimed (atleast for me).

Which tool/suite would you recommened as the best (best stands for: practical in usage, intutive) for capturing project requirements and maintaining a tracebility. I have tried Rational RequisitePro but before commiting it to my project i would like to evalute other options as well. Thanks in advance.

well in that case i case across dv92xx serives at some store, priced roughly around 70k INR, but the only bargain was with 1 GB RAM instead of 2GB RAM. the store was probably some reliance degital chain if i correctly remember. also, if you are willign to go teh DELL way you can config a neat machine your self.. i did one for around 60k and was comparable to dv93xx servies...

have you considered HP's dv9330us or dv9339us they come loaded with 2 GB RAM and 160 HDD, NVidia and wot not and still cost less than 1500 USD...

Try hunting for IP camera Sony, www.axis.com might be a good sample.. alternatively, you can use your webcam to capture video and stream it over HTTP.. is you are looking for ready product for that.. LEADTOOLS might be of help.. if you have looking for sample code and want to learn the how-to of it, then you already are at codeproject.. so what are you waiting for buddy...

How is the cow doing?

I have a pre-configured VPN connection in my network settings.. I am trying to create a small util which can automatically start the VPN connection, and also terminate the same. No user interaction is desirabel except for starting teh util. I woudl appreciate more insight into the same. regards

well if this is what the level of CPs helping/sharing spirit is, then this would be my last on CP.

To begin with, it might soudn like a programming question, but to me it seems to be something other than that hence I am posting it here: I have a ActiveX control created in VB 6 from a 3rd party and wanted to use it in ASP.Net/VB.Net but the control dosent expose APIs which could be called from ASp.Net/VB.Net. I tried invoking the function from javascript but later foudn that some functions on the OCX were not even exposed to javascript. So the tech support (who do not provide support for .Net) suggested that we create another wrapped OCX around theirs, and use that OCX within our web pages. So far so good. We did as they said, created our own OCX, doing whatever we wanted to. We then tested it out on .Net 1.1 and the control worked like a charm. But when we attemp to use the same control in VS 2005 (prfessional edition), the control does appear in teh toolbox pane, but is disabled, and does not allow itself to be placed on any page. in VS 2003 we are using it normally without any issues. Can you plz guide me as to what might be the problem.

I have a ActiveX control created in VB 6 from a 3rd party and wanted to use it in ASP.Net/VB.Net but the control dosent expose APIs which could be called from ASp.Net/VB.Net. I tried invoking the function from javascript but later foudn that some functions on the OCX were not even exposed to javascript. So the tech support (who do not provide support for .Net) suggested that we create another wrapped OCX around theirs, and use that OCX within our web pages. So far so good. We did as they said, created our own OCX, doing whatever we wanted to. We then tested it out on .Net 1.1 and the control worked like a charm. But when we attemp to use the same control in VS 2005 (prfessional edition), the control does appear in teh toolbox pane, but is disabled, and does not allow itself to be placed on any page. in VS 2003 we are using it normally without any issues. Can you plz guide me as to what might be the problem.

happy Holi to all CPian and non-CPian too... As to explain the spirit of Holi, We in India, celebrate this day as 'Festivals of colors', shed our inhibitions and throw color powder (gulal) at others, and even soak them wet with buckets of colored water. Kids have their part of fun with squirt guns. All in all.. its half day of going on the streets and getting yourself colored and then spending another half of the day in getting the colors off your body. gr8 fun!! i luv it.. http://www.indiaexpress.com/rangoli/holi.html[^] http://www.nd.edu/~iand/IANDWebPage/Holi-03-1.jpg[^] -- modified at 4:18 Tuesday 14th March, 2006

Looks like we have 'I am Day' today, and we already have: Programmer, French, Cold on our list, waiting for more to come.

Try Acrobat Reader 7.. they seem to have worked on that part...

We used Visual Assist and stopped the intellisense, which kindof improved the performance for us and teh IDE woudl not go into 'thinking mode' that often

I had a solution with 98 projects (ASP.Net, C#)(yes 98!!) and it worked like a charm, but now the new project I am working on has 19 projects (ASP.Net VB.Net)in a solution and every time I build the solution the IDE closes abruptly midway of the build. The IDE dosent give me any warning message whatsoever, just disappears from the screen.. POOF!!!.. it happens on all 8 machines I tried on. Even checked the event viewer log for any info but nope, no trace of anything there!! totally clueless:confused::sigh: :((

You should somehow get your TL to read this thread... (Thinking what might happen after that!!) :->

m_strThisIsHowIDeclareMyStringMemberVariable :cool:

appears to be the infamous Loopback address issue which blocks all loopback addresses except 127.0.0.1 in XP SP2. If so is the case, this might be of some help: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=884020[^] :cool:

Sellecting colors.. wallpaper patterns etc!! hummm.. that can be a bit tricky!! After wallpapers would be floor boards, then moulding then curtains and wot not!! Oh!! i almost forgot to mention.. then you might want to see how teh room looks in day light and how it transforms in night under artificial lights!! belive me the room really transforms, light plays tricks on colors! think about it.. 'how does my room appear at 10:00 am in July... and if that is waht you are finally targetting at then i woudl recommend a visit to www.vismasters.com[^]. And for those purposes Floorplan 3D might not come in handy.. but undoubtly FP is a good point to start with. lateron you have migrate to TurboCad/FormZ or alike...

SketchUp is a really cool app for creating 3D model.. specially thier Push n Pull thingy.. ROCKS!! I used it about 2 yrs back.. and havent used ti since.. but do hope that these guys have imporved this tool in 2 yrs.. If you are looking at photorealistic rendering.. then SketchUp was not teh best one (atleast 2 yrs ago!) Other tools I can suggest are: FloorPlan 3D (IMSI) TurboCAD FormZ All in all.. if you are not a 3D modeling geek (or dont want to become one) then) Sketchup and FloorPlan are good enough tools. Otherwise.. turboCAD, FormZ, 3D Max are teh real thing. Hope this helps.