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Chris, I think you may have hit on my problem; I was not aware of the threshold safeguards. My primary method of accessing CodeProject is through your RSS feed, which appears to simply list ALL new submissions regardless of rating. Would it be possible to set up a configurable RSS feed, or, failing that (I realize that's non-trivial) maybe just modify the current RSS feed to arbitrarily filter out articles under, say, 3.0?

OK, this has got to stop. The signal-to-noise ratio on user-submitted non-moderated article submissions is getting so low that I'm seriously considering dropping CodeProject as a resource. I can think of 5 or 6 completely garbage articles posted in the last couple of weeks; I'm not talking about possibly useful articles that are poorly formatted or poorly stated, I'm talking about COMPLETE GARBAGE. Copies of help files. People asking for help to learn how to program. People posting a description of their stupid proprietary technology, without posting the code for said technology (like QUIETTA's stupid articles). Lame, time-wasting articles with bullet points of why .NET is better than VB6. Seriously, I can handle people who use English as a second language posting useful articles; I can wade through and appreciate these articles for their useful content. But this garbage has got to, has GOT TO, stop.

He's a self-aggrandizing bastard. He draws attention to himself and proclaims that he's great for performing stunts that other people have done better. He used to associate with Leonardo DiCaprio. His industry isn't entertainment, it's celebrity. Nobody is entertained by him, only bemused. He's one of those folks who are celebrities because they're celebrities. And I'm not the only one. Seems like everyone in London hates him too.

I hate him. Maybe he'll do us all a favor and starve to death.

Wow, just what I want to walk in to first thing Monday morning--a profane, obscene post ranting in a most offensive manner. Sorry, but I can't be bothered to filter through the filth and try to get to the actual content of the post (if indeed there is any).

I guess not everyone. Check out that guy who thinks Pasadena is the Rose City! :)

Nope, it's Portland. Check it: http://www.digital-web.com/portland/[^] Pasadena is a Johnny-Come-Lately pretender to the name. Never mind that Pasadena was founded with the building of the Mission in 1771 and Portland wasn't really founded until 1845. :)

Jamie Nordmeyer wrote: P-Town - Portland P-Town? Where did you get that? Portland is "The City of Roses" or "The Rose City".

Actually it was Paxil that did the trick for me!

I just look in the mirror and say: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like you. :-)

Hmmm.... how does he rut all over him? I haven't seen Spirited Away.

I haven't seen that one... in our theater they showed Knick Knack prior to the feature film, which is also an early Pixar short. It's about a snowman trying to get out of his snowglobe. It has Bobby McFarin annoyingly beeping and booping in the background, you would know it if you saw it.

I brought my family to it. My kids, aged 2 and 4, loved it, and my wife and I loved it too. We especially found the part where the fish try to talk to the whale very funny. Good stuff. Pixar can do no wrong.

Kazaa is good because it forces the recording industry to deal with the issue of the Internet. If they don't want their content stolen, they need to make a legal way for people to download it. Some of the pay services available now (most notably Rhapsody) are coming close to providing a bonafide improvement to what's available through p2p services like Kazaa, not to mention being legal. This would NEVER have happened without p2p services like Napster and Kazaa.

Has anybody had any problems with the included version of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio after upgrading to VS.NET 2003/.NET Framework 1.1? It seems like it's not liking to use a DataSet as a ReportSource anymore. If I go back to 2002/1.0 everything works just fine. Ron

Thanks for your reply, I'll look into that stuff!

You know how when you double-click on a control in the Visual Studio.NET Windows Forms Designer, it will take you to the code and generate an event handler for you, and bind the event up in the "generated code" region? Well my questions are: 1) How does it decide WHICH event to bind to? It seems like it picks the most commonly used one, but it also seems pretty arbitrary to me. 2) Is there any way to change this default behavior, for example to make a different event the default? 3) Is there any way to auto-generate handlers and bindings for other events besides the default one, sort of like you could do in VB? It's kind of a time-consuming pain to always have to go look up the event handler arguments and which delegate you're supposed to use every time. Thanks in advance Ron Scott

I work for a company that chose to standardize around Java as a development platform about four years ago. We had one legacy product implemented in VB, however, and this product happened to be the biggest performer in terms of profits, so we had a rather large development team for it and I'm the dev lead. However all other development efforts, internal and external, have been in Java and almost all of our new hires over the last few years have been Java people. As you can imagine, I'm getting REALLY sick of VB6. In any case this product is now being sunsetted. I'm moving onto another (brand-new) project, and because the company standardized around Java, the majority of developers at this point (besides me) are Java developers. The project is an internal-only data production/analysis tool that will be used by around 30 people running Windows desktops with significantly large database needs and a partial client/server architecture. Possibly, multiple frontends to the app will be employed, including a fat desktop client and a web interface with reduced functionality. I feel that .NET is the best platform choice for this app, but the Java people obviously don't, and I'm in the extreme minority. The director of Engineering will have the final say, and is open to talking about different platforms, but my voice is being essentially lost in the loud shouting of the Java promoters. My questions, then, are two-fold: 1) Am I even right to be promoting .NET? Since both platforms could sufficiently produce the app in question, should I just shut up and go with the flow? 2) And if .NET is the right choice, what can I say to convince people? Are there any online resources I can use to help with this, something I might have missed in my research? Thanks in advance. ron