After 4 or 5 years in the ASP.NET world I'm about to embark on a new LOB WinForms application and I wondered what the current thinking was in terms of GUI design and implementation? Any suggestions? I'm severely lacking in inspiration at the moment :)

Cheers James

Beyond Compare Beyond Compare Beyond Compare Beyond Compare I say again Beyond Compare Cheers James

You could also try BrowserCam[^]

Hey Guys, Does anyone know of any good commercial audio processing libraries which can be used with .NET (either natively or via COM)? I'm looking for something which can mix multiple input files (mp3 or whatever) into one output file. I've already found one at http://www.nctsoft.com/products/NCTAudioStudio2/ but the only version which comes with support is $2000 which is out of our budget. Cheers James

What you need is Acronis True Image[^]. It's fantastic piece of software which allows you to create an image of your current installation from with Windows. You can then boot from the recovery CD and restore the image. The image can be on another internal HSS, an external (USB or firewire) HDD or DVD. You can even put the restore cd and the image to restore on the same DVD to make it even easier. Cheers James

I used Avant for years but firefox made me switch. Why? Because if you've ever done any web design work you would know that IE is shockingly bad at rendering HTML. Firefox isn't perfect but it's much more 'Internet Friendly' than IE. And if it doesn't do what I need it to, someone will have written an extension to do what I need. And if they haven't, I'll write one myself. Also, the tone of your posts comes across as confrontational and superior which is not what Codeproject is about. I'm glad you enjoy using Avant, but don't feel that you are better than the rest of us for doing so. Cheers James

I prefer Acronis Truimage http://www.acronis.com[^]. It has great recovery options and can even image your system drive while your are in Windows Cheers James

If you open up your *.webinfo file in notepad you can edit the URL for the site Cheers James

It's almost certainly stored in the media library which is usually found at C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player Cheers James

And I'm disappointed... Cheers James

I'm looking for a web based tool which will allow me to enter break my software project up into a hierarchy of tasks which I can tick off as I complete them. Requirements are that it should be free, easy to use and if possible it should run on IIS/SQL Server. Anyone got any recommendations? Cheers James

Yeah it looks like they got their sums wrong. I would guess it's more like 40 Terabytes, but even so, that is still a massive data store. Cheers James

FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

Hi, I have an app which consists of a Main Window and 10 or so client windows. However, I need the app to work like an SDI in that only one window is visible at a time and that window should be maximized. If I set all my child windows to have WindowState.Maximized this kind of works, but after switching windows 4 or 5 times, I end up with all the windows showing but not maximized. I have tried various things including overriding OnActivated, OnResizing, OnSizeChanged and changing the windowstate and window size but none seem to work. Where should I be looking? Is this controlled by the child forms or the MDI Parent? Thanks for any help Cheers James

Thanks for the reply Michael. I know how to do the JOIN in sql, that's not the problem. The problem is that from a design point of view each table is a separate C# class upon which I call the CRUD methods (album.Delete(), album.SelectOne() etc). What I need to know is what is the best way of joining the tables under this scenario? I've been think of defining views for each JOIN which I require and then generating classes for each of those but I'm not convinced it is the best way to go about it. Cheers James

Hey Guys, Here's the problem: I'm trying to learn multi-tier design so I've been writing a little app to teach myself. I have a normalised SQLServer database which contains my music collection. The DB schema is here[^]. So, I used LLBLGen[^] to generate a C# class for each of my table entities and that works great. There are SelectOne() and SelectAll() methods on each of my entities which allow you to select one record or the whole table. My question is: how do I join the tables together? And how do I search them? I tried asking on the asp.net forums but they just suggested buying a OR mapper tool. Cheers James

I'm still stuck at work too. It's about 20:45 here in Manchester and I've spent the last two hours photoshoping pictures of ladies modelling skimpy underwear for a web site I've been working on for a client. Here's the site if you are interested[^] - it's not open yet so don't buy anything :) Cheers James

Every Winamp version ever released http://winampheaven.net/[^] Cheers James

We use openoffice at work because our company are too tight to buy MS Office. It's not too bad but it's obviously not as good as Microsoft's. But it is free. Cheers James

Hey Guys, Yesterday I recompiled an MFC application in Visual C++.NET which had previously been built using VC6. Aside from a few casting issues, the compile seemed to work OK. However, the app will not execute. When I execute the app, the error I get is 0xC0000005: Access violation. The problem is that this exception is thrown before my app even gets into WinMain. The stack trace when the exception is raised is:- NTDLL.DLL!_RtlRaiseStatus@4() + 0x24 NTDLL.DLL!_LdrpInitialize@12() + 0x15276 NTDLL.DLL!_KiUserApcDispatcher@20() + 0x7 When I take a look in the output Window after execution I get. First-chance exception at 0x77f92373 (NTDLL.DLL) in WMSClient.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000010. First-chance exception at 0x7c59ba9d in WMSClient.exe: 0x000003E6: Invalid access to memory location. First-chance exception at 0x77f92373 (NTDLL.DLL) in WMSClient.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000010. First-chance exception at 0x77fb17a4 (NTDLL.DLL) in WMSClient.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation. Unhandled exception at 0x77fb17a4 (NTDLL.DLL) in WMSClient.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation. The program '[1968] WMSClient.exe: Native' has exited with code 128 (0x80). At first I thought it was maybe caused by one of the global variables causing problems but most of them are basic types. Those which are classes, I put a breakpoint in the constructor but it never gets called. Can anyone suggest anything else to look at? Cheers James