does anyone know how to start with smd technology? I looked for it but I can't find anything, I'm hoping to find a starter kit since I never used SMDs and I would like to transfer from the normal circuits. Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

yay I was lucky then cause I did it yesterday '28/05/2004' so im happy, but I thought I read somewhere on the site that the deadline was until september or until supplies last..:) Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I agree, Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 in this case has so much tools that a beginner or even an expert won't use probably half of the tools that ship with it. You should first learn a language, check out sharpdevelop, free C# VB and J# compiler/ide... Then if you like it or you become interested, then you should get Visual Studio. Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I just found an article or is it a contest? anyways http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/[^] check it out. It just took me an hour to watch, rate and order my free copy of vb.net... Since I don't want to be only limited to C++ and C#, this will offer beginners free tools erh tool..:-D Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I would say... umm B... how about.. (Good meat and pleanty of dairy) + (5 soda's per day, live off candy, ect.) ;) Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I was just wondering, does anyone know of a good website or place where you can buy ciruit kits? Since it's more 'funner'.:-D Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Get an anti-virus ;P Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

They should add more competitions or tell us before they actually make them, also some of us are still not using .net, I did try it once but found it ok, I probably will transfer to using .net eventually but right now I'm sticking to writing games in DirectX. P.S. This contest was up for like a couple of MONTHS now!!! Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Well you probably would have to make a parser yourself, probably search a specified file(s)/folder(s) and then search through them for '//TODO:' and then use getline or copy the contents until you come up to a \n Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Why doesn't code project still have those contests, it would give alot of people something to do while having spare time on the comp :P Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I just wanted to do this for fun, to see what and how large it would be, I have a 30 gig hard drive and I calculated the document to come out aproximatly 50 gigs!!!!:-D Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I made a simple prog in console that listed ALL the ip's that are possible... don't ask, and I stumbled onto a problem, I was storing those ip's into a txt file, but when the ip's were only on 1.0.0.0 the txt file was aproximatly 200mb, you know .2gb, anyways does anyone know how to make that file smaller or is that the smallest I can get? Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I mean, can I somehow make a type MORE precise to calculate phi or Phi to the nth digit?? like somewhere about 100 or no? Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

I want to calculate the golden ratio (Phi) and (phi)... I know how to do the equation, pretty simple, but I want to make the program so it will output a load of numbers instead of like... .61803 but I want a longer number... how can I do this?? Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Well, you can't anyways because you have no programming experience. Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

how do you maximize a child window?? its probably on the oninitialupdate()...help Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

hahah ya true...:cool: Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Like in visual studio for c++ docs it adds support for coloring text "for, if..." how can I make the same text coloring by default? Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

When I made an MFC app I included support for 4 recent documents but how can you erase these? Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.

Actually his way defines the whole function... good way to learn... and his function takes in less parameters and too could be in one line of code :) Actual Linux Penguins were harmed in the creation of this message.