Thanks, a macro never occured to me. Doh!

Not really a programming question, so I thought I would give the lounge a shot: Does anyone know a simple way to print an Outlook calendar from the command line? Or, maybe with Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant? In the end, I would like to set a scheduled task that prints a given calendar at a given time. Am I going to have to fire up VS and use Office/Outlook integration, or is there some really straight-forward way to do this that I can't see? Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions :) -Peter

Maybe the "Aeron"? I have one and love it...

I've had a Dell Latitude D800 for the past four years or so that has been very kind to me. Also, several of my clients use Dells exclusivly. Some have nightmare stories, some have nothing but rave reviews. I'm not saying that I necessarily recommend, or even like Dells. Though I do support the fact that anomalies can occur in production that may effect quality, no matter what company. That being said, with the age of my current notebook, I have been looking at new machines and giving serious consideration to Mac's. I was wondering, has anyone (is it even possible?) to run a virutliaztion core such as Xen on a Mac, then run OS X, Windows, BSD, whatever on top? If so, that 8-core Mac Pro looks mighty nice!

I was wondering if there was anyone in here familiar with either of these fields. I am interested in learning more about the job market in these areas, as well as career examples. Are you ahppy with it? Is what you expected? They have both really grabbed my attention as of late. I plan on meeting with the HR director of Asterand[^] to pick his brain a bit and learn whatever possible.

It looks as if I may come into some funding for education and I've been consindering a Microsoft certification in .NET. I believe it is the MCPD I have been looking at. How many have their MS cert in programming and do you feel it was worth it (both educational and career -wise)? Would most likely go C#/.NET 2.0. Should I look at one of the private facilities, e.g. New Horizons, etc. or do community colleges, etc. offer such training. Any suggestions/recommendations/etc? Thanks in advance. -Peter

Thanks! I plan on looking into what has been suggested. Like I said, more curiousity than anything - I don't even play PC/video games . Had a few C++ classes back in college, but nothing that would prepare me for that level. Sure it will be interesting though... Thanks again!

I visit CP often as I am generally interested in .NET/C#, but am not a professional programmer. I friend recently asked a question that I could not clearly answer, so I thought I would post it here: How are games, such as first-person shooters like Doom, programmed? I assume there is an engine of sorts, but is there than a languange the engine uses? I am sure it is a fairly complex answer, but does anyone have any resources (CP or other) about the process? Just need to feed my curiousity a bit. Thanks! -- modified at 11:31 Sunday 17th June, 2007

Has advertising started on sat. radio? I thought I heard that commercials have began to invade the programming. Did they not being to sell it with commercial-free being a feature/benefit (see cable tv)?

If that happens...might I suggest...oh, I don't know...perhaps a (Total) RECALL?! Let her do her time like everyone else.

Interesting thread...just out of curiousity...does anyone have resources for needs/gap analysis? Also, does anyone have experience with any open source ERP applications with respect to manufacturing? It's been awhile since I've worked with ERP/MRPII, but might have a project coming up...guess I should sharpen my skills just a bit :)

Ha! Me too!

Back off man - I'm a scientist. :cool:

{with cigar in mouth} "I love it when a plan comes together!"

Okay, here it is: Working on a project for a client where we are reading data from a closed DB via a third-party ODBC driver and the client wants to access the reports via Access. It has been a long, long time since I have used Access, and my knowledge of it is admittedly poor. I need to be able to run a report/query/whatever that only selects records of a certain date range based on the Date column in said DB. I managed to run the reports I need via the Wizard, but still need to be able to filter based on that date. The syntax of the report designer is foregin to me (wish I could just use SQL!). I know this has got to be so simple to do, I just am not catching it. :doh: Any references, etc. are GREATLY appreciated, as well as any syntax pointers for the report desginer. Thanks to all who have any information as this is a rush project and needs to be finished yesterday (of course!).

:wtf: "Quaid...start the reactor..."

Thanks for the quick response. I came across this KB article that will hopefully point me in the correct direction: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893388/en-us[^] Hopefully this will help others seeking similar solutions. Rock on CodeProject! :cool:

Greetings to all, First, thank you for taking the time to read my post. I was wondering if it is possible to create a printer driver in C# that would actually save the output to an image file such as a TIFF as opposed to printing to a physical printer. I am fairly new to .NET and Windows applications, so any help or references are greatly appreciated, especially regarding driver development. Is C#/.NET even the proper avenue for such a task? Thanks in advance for any assistance or references.