Or go to Victoria's Secret and ask if you can borrow one of their angels.

Empty structures are the best! ;P I guess something went wrong there?

Guessing for your text, you will need to built the zoom functionality yourself (Which is actually quite easy btw). Just catch the mouse scroll and recalculate the amount of pixels to show. Ie; Zoom in once; 1px becomes 4pxs etc..

What's wrong with sneakers :(? ;) But true, get your point...

You didn't even search did you?: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asp.net+mvc+4+database+first[^]. Because the first 10 google hits on pretty much every possible way you can ask this question, answer your question properly. I can't really understand how people can develop applications, but can't use google. A developer should be able to use google shouldn't (s)he?

Not really an Agile question is it? :P

I can't agree more. Sadly I have been mostly at companies which did it wrong and were code reviews took days. They actually didn't code reviews, they looked at how they should have built it and then tell you you did it wrong. If you didn't comply with the architecture, that wouldn't have been a problem ofcourse, but the code always complied. The there-are-multiple-ways-to-Rome idea missed its road from their building to Rome, because they really didn't get it and always complained they didn't have enough time to do their work, because they had to review everything... A good code review looks for any problems, any deviations from required standards and some tips/hints. You should clearly separate those groups of comments. Problems and deviations need to be fixed. Tips/hints should be considered helpful and not a kick in the butt.

As the exception says you need to instantiate a transaction in your code (which you aren't doing at this moment). That will fix your issue.

I actually met an architect once who referred to their architecture as Lego blocks which they could stack to build dream houses, but also boats etc.. In the end; The boat sank & the dream house was too small for even a lego dummy. Hope he didn't had the same when he grew up when he was playing with his own lego. He would have been bullied a lot :D

That's basically what I meant indeed. I do agree though if somebody says it's a very black and white statement :).

Duh F#! :cool: Or I just agree with Eddy...

Can't agree more... I do the same with my hobbies. The same people also complain that the hobby website is down, because the crappy free image hoster is down and they can't see the images. Giving everybody internet made people stupid and freaking lazy...

What no #if DEBUG vs #if RELEASE bugs in that code? :doh: Damn, he's good ;P You should have asked him if he ever swapped dll's between the applications. That would be great fun :laugh:

Cloud is indeed mostly marketing talk, but companies are now more actively and on the foreground developing stuff for it which is probably the major difference. Basically it was there also 4 years ago... So you are correct :)

Yes, those should give the same result. They might be a bit different sorted I think, but in the end the same data should be in the output. Edit: I oversaw one small thing. The second query in the union doesn't return the values of d.ROOM_DESC, d.ROOM_PHONE, but rather two empty strings in those columns. In your combined query these columns will be filled.

I think I didn't wrote it correctly what I wanted to say. I actually meant it might act as a "unsaved"/"new" dean. If you use -1 for unsaved values, having an (static)object which represents could help, but there are far easier solutions for that which are also much more common. Null should ofcourse be eh... null? :) (and not some weird nulldeanobject)

Keith Barrow wrote:

public class DeanCollection : List<FacultyDean> { }

That's actually not a really strange one. In certain languages you had to define your own lists if you wanted to have them typesafe. Eg; you did have a list of objects, but if you wanted a list of person you had to create your own class. Lots of those programmers who did that in the past took that way of working over in .NET. Ofcourse with Generic this makes no sense, but those people tend to argue that using the "DeanCollection" abstracts away the "FacultyDean", so that you can always replace it with a different class. I do wonder why you would want that though...

Keith Barrow wrote:

public class NullFacultyDean : FacultyDean { public NullFacultyDean() { ID = -1; } }

I have done that in the past also, only then the other way around :). I guess they needed something which represents an empty "FacultyDean" and created it this way instead of a more common:

public FacultyDean Empty
{
get {
return new FacultyDean() { ID = -1 };
}
}

Ofcourse this code example also doesn't work out of the box, unless you compare the ID's. A normal equal won't work :P It's always something with code you inherit ;) I for once got the comments the code was to hard; It had to much inheritance. I could also just have copied the code in all the classes. Much easier to understand! ;x

A better solution would be to setup a mirror server in India which gets (and sends) a backup every night to the uk server. In this case the uk-server should be the master and the India-server slave. We used a similar principle on a previous assigment and that worked quite well. This still ensures that you have the latest sources and can use the benefits of VSS, but keeps it all structured.

Have a look at Powerpivot[^]. This allows you to create reports and stuff in excel. It's works very well!

And your actual problem is? Because you are now describing the whole process flow of your application. We can't really help with that :)