Google books has heaps of ebooks. Even C++ books. :)

He could have meant a table variable. http://databases.aspfaq.com/database/should-i-use-a-temp-table-or-a-table-variable.html[^]

This is something I have been interested in too. Let me know if you go ahead with it. :) A big problem I saw was working out how to make a fair side-by-side comparisons. Someone who works with C++/MFC everyday will produce a simple windows application faster in MFC then they would .Net only because of lack of exposure to .Net. When I first started using .Net I found myself writing simple utilities in C++/MFC because it was quicker then trying to work out in .Net.

Cheap air lines are good, but dont limit your options to the biggest cities. In Italy I would consider Florence or Venice over Rome. Moving around too much though can eat into your vacation time. Maybe include train travel as chill out and travel time. Trains leave and arrive at city centres so you often save time taking trains, avoiding the need to travel out of cities to airports and early check in time. Or you can take an over night train and incorporate a nights accomodation with transport.

I have been to SDWest. It was great. :) Just check out the details and see if it is a good match for your interests. Before I went to SDWest I checked out the presenters and tracks. There was a number of presenters who I recognised from reading their articles and books. There was a good mix of sessions, tutorials and panels. Most of what I saw was related to what I was working on, or, was planning to get into. A lot of technical presentation material can be found on-line. Conferences work for me because they get me out of the office and focused on the sessions. Also good for interaction with the experts and other attendees. -- Leah

Yeah the best way to solve naming convention issues is to ask the opinons of more developers. ;-) Having had to detangle some odd FK naming I like the consistant PK and FK naming approach. Consistant naming in layers is also very helpful. But consistancy is the key, so if someone is using ID for PK then I will use that. -- Leah

The practice exams really help. For 70-431 I found that the practice exams can be alot harder then the actual exam. Depending on the projects you have worked on you may not have experience with all of the topics covered in the exam. If you can look at the study guide at the official Microsoft site and feel confident that you understand what each of the points are then you probably will not get much out of buying an exam topic book. The exam topic books don't always have alot of depth. The books recemmended on the Microsoft site that describes the exam topics are good but do not cover all the topics on the exam. If you see one that you think you might use after the exam then it is good value, otherwise you might want to consider an exam topic book. I bought the book "MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Implementation and Maintenance" (from Solid Quality Learning). I had been using SQL Server 2005 all year but I had not had hands on experience with all of various back-up strategies etc. The book really helped alot. Also if you can buy a book with a practice exam and an exam voucher then they make up for the price of the book. :)

How does the .Net 2003 one work? You could add exception handling to catch crashes. Not sure what information you might want in a "mini-dump" One place I worked at had a trace mode that users could turn on to log application execution. The trace would generate text for key function call points and variables. There was also an exception handler that would save the trace log out before closing.

Something like this happened to me once. Turned out there was a memory leak that must have wondered into the buffered space in debug mode and not hurt anything but in release mode it caused a crash. We used Bounds Checker to track the memory leak.

Logo and Apple basic were the first programming experiences I had. They were simple environments to work in. Then I went to University where I learnt lots of theory. My first job was C++ Windows development where I had a great mentor / boss. Learning a programming language is like learning a spoken language, you get better with practice and it takes a while until you can start "thinking" in that language. A good book is Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel which is available free at: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html[^] This site also has links to free compilers. Although you might want to get the express edition of Microsoft Visual Studio if you are also interested in C#. Try Googling for "c++ tutorial" there is heaps of stuff out there.

A simple way to do this would be to make these textbox values parameters to your report and report viewer will display texboxes for the user to provide values. There are heaps of examples using report viewer at: http://www.gotreportviewer.com/[^] If you don't want to do it this way I would suggest you look up some help on using parameters with reports. There are some decent examples for using rdlc on MSDN.

Yeah LOGO was the first language I learned. Simple environment and good visual feedback. VB.Net would probably be a bit overwhelming. My nephews are around that age and they played around with Flash a fair bit. I think this could be a good start.

dptalt wrote:

How can you use textbox values on a form to populate a vb report?

Do you mean a Reporting Services report? You can pass values from text boxes as paramters to an RS report.

To convert a C++ applicaiton to Unicode define UNICODE (add it the list where you have DEBUG etc). We used the generic text _TCHAR because we wanted to be able to make non-Unicode builds. Check out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_core_unicode_programming_tasks.asp[^]

MatrixCoder wrote:

In the program.

You mean as part of the binary? Have you got code samples or references?

Asking questions is good. You can't always ask the agencies as they don't always know. I once had a recruitment agent ask me if there was a difference between C++ and OO! :) Googling for Integration Programmer I found a number of examples, including: will make full use of your Software Support Programming (a bit of Configuration also) / and some other Bespoke Development (mostly C# / XML / JAVA & JavaScript / TCL / ODBC Connections) of Integration Software / Hooks / Links between new & Legacy Software. Often with with job titles though there is alot open to interpretation. Some overused and missused terms.

I also got warnings about my network card, Nero and SQL Server VSS Writer. No warnings about Visual Stuido 2005 though. I got a bunch of warnings about my mobile device simulators, so maybe I exceeded the warning limit. ;) I was surprised to see the report say my 64MB video card will support the Windows Aero™ user experience.

Where would you store the values? Usual user settings locations would be easy enough to find eg: isolated storage. A key in the registry? You could create an algorithm for generating a key in the registry and just store the date with no other identifying informaiton. And then just leave the key there until a full version was installed.

What are the error messages? It could be from some clean-up code or many other things. It would be easier to offer ideas if you provide the errors messages themselves.

What kind of errors are you getting? Do they appear before the interface closes?