Hello all, I'm in the process of moving the system I work on from C++/MFC/COM to the .NET world. As usual, a lot of legacy code must remain as is client-wise ... The dilemma I'm facing is the following: I'm using a sort of home-made IOC framework to instantiate and hold a singleton .NET component. For performance reasons (avoid context switching) I would like to expose it to a native C++ client which till today instantiated the 'good old' COM component (replaced by the .NET component) using CoCreate... I cannot touch the client's code, and it needs to interact with the .NET component already instantiated. Any ideas? Will registering with the ROT do the trick? Thanks, Omer

I'm afraid my question was not understood. The generic parameter type to be returned by reflection is known only at runtime, so I cannot write in my code something like: NGConfigUnit unit = fieldInfo.GetValue(obj, null) ..... - I simply don't know if the value returned shall be NGConfigUnit or NGConfigUnit or whatever ... So what I need is a way to invoke NGConfigUnit methods not using reflection and w/o knowing what T is in advance. I doubt if there's such a way, but suggestions are welcomed. Thanks, Omer

The story behind this question is simple: I'm trying to build a serializer that serializes a generic class into a custom format. public class NGConfigUnit { protected T _value; ......... ....... public T Value { get { return _value; } set { _value = value; _isDirty = true; } } } Problem is that when I access the class via reflection the values are returned as object. Even though I can check the value of T using reflection and generate an instance using a factory, I cannot reference a generic instance dynamically i.e. I cannot write something like (no support for this C#): NGConfigUnit<typeof(myval> unit = ..... This blocks me from accessing fields and properties explicitly, which is crucial for the rest of my code. Any idea how to reach am alternative? Thanks, Omer

Thanks guys! You gave me some very important tips to keep in mind. One thing for sure - I'm determined to make the change. Omer

Hi all, I've been managing SW projects for the last 5 years. Started out with 3 engineers, now having a 15 developers team. To be honest, I'm sick and tired of it: running after tasks and people, sitting in peer reviews, endless meetings ... So, I've been mingling lately with the idea of going back to a development position. Just be an ordinary SW engineer. However, It's been almost 4 years since I've written something serious and I'm not up-to-date with latest technology (well, I know buzz words and concepts, but I'm pretty far from all the "small details"). Add on top a wife + 4 young boys and very little free time. Questions are as follows: Has any here done such a change? Was it painfull? what did it take? How can I convince an employer to hire me? (I want to find a new job and some think I'm over qualified). Thoughts apreciated ... Omer

Hi Tom, Well, The link was wrong, but you book was translated to hebrew. Here's the correct link: http://www.hod-ami.co.il/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=hodami&category%5Fname=%2ENET&product%5Fid=59327&ParentCategory=Programming[^] Cheers, Omer

Are you sure they weren't french? I must say, They broke the french record.;P

I need a whole Data structure (and not a simple one). If I understand correctly, what you suggest is to wrap it up with COM and pass it around to all instances this way or another. Isn't there a simpler solution ?

The project I'm working on is moving from good old DCOM to COM+. I find it hard to solve one issue. Back in DCOM days, when you had data that had to shared by all the objects of a class, there was no problem holding inside the DCOM EXE server and letting all instances know of it (data such as a list of connected currently connected users, etc). How do I do it in COM+, as all objects are created through surrogate DLLs ? Thanks, Omer.

Thanks, you've been helpfull. I'll make my best to show them my (Non-European) heritage, but once again, doing that would mess me up with my wife, so on a second thought, I rather not ;).

Leaving politics aside, my wife has decided to continue her doctorate studies in Penn-state University. Being her humble servant (as all men are, and don't tell me there are any exceptions!!!) I agreed, and therefore I'm about to start looking for a job around that area. As you can understand, I'm not a US resident, but have no problem getting a green card, as my wife is an American citizen. So, How do you look for a job in the US when you're leaving abroad? Are there any special issues I should be aware of? I guess some mentality differences exist, so can someone throw in a word? Thanks, Omer. P.S - I have 6 years of experience mainly in VC++, Oracle and DB applications programming. Been a SW lead, etc.

We've got plenty of these in Israel. Places whose names mean something like "Sea Child", "Grandpa's village", "Jacob's memorial", "Solomon's daughter", etc.

Michael P Butler wrote: Somebody said to me the other day, "Maybe old Adolf had the right idea". Now that's a nice idea. I'm sure my grandparents, who survived "old Adolf"'s death camps, would love a second round. Michael P Butler wrote: As England was partly responsible for creating the situation in the Middle East by dropping the Jews back in there after the second world war. I feel we should be doing a little more to help. I wonder what would that "help" mean ? Omer :( :( :( :( :(( !!!!

I've been doing quite a lot of DB programming, and the last things I would say about Oracle is that it sucks. Yes, Its UI is Horrible and the most non user friendly I have ever seen (at least up to 8i), but when talking about performance MS SQL Server is no match to the Oracle Database. By the way, it is true. Oracle has fully incorporated Java into the 8i and 9i versions. I think this is great, I wish I could write all my stored procedures in C++ and not T-SQL. Any way, the new Versions of Oracle (8i,9i) are much more than a DB server, even if they're hard to work with on MS platforms. Omer.

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The idea of using Add-ins is realy cool. However, there's no ready made functionality to support it in MFC (as far as I know). So, does anyone happens to know where could I find a ready-made code framework for an application which knows how to load and use Add-ins ?

Thanks guys!

I wish it was that simple. We're already using Rational's ClearCase for Software configuration management, but I guess that's an issue our IT guys will solve. What really worries me is how to work with those people. Here I can go to any member of my team when ever he needs assistance or when ever I need to make complicated things clear, but doing this with someone who's sitting 3,000 miles away - that's a different thing.

I've just learned from my boss that I'm gonna get two new SW engineers to my team. I thought it was great, until I found out they're contractors from a foreign country. Its not that I don't want my team to grow, only I never had any experience with managing people overseas and developing SW in a distributed manner. There are so many technical difficulties I can think of such as how to manage a common repository or how to conduct peer reviews, not mentioning mentality differences. So if any of you have any experience with these sorts if issues I'll appreciate your advice.:confused:

It's my turn again to up a presentation on latest, hot, top of the list technology.Being such a bum, I rather use something ready-made. So does any one knows where can I download ready-made presentations on topics such as .NET, XML, SOAP, etc. ?