...because they have a tendency to sprout legs and walk away if you don't. ;) (BTW, I only do this with books that I personally buy, not ones that the company reimburses me for) :bob::bob: :D :bob::bob: evan stone | petaluma, ca, usa

Steve Mayfield wrote: I just noticed that Linksys announced a Wireless G Range Expander[^] coming soon...does not need to be connected to anything (except for power) I hope they'll be releasing that in Europe too? Jsut what I need. David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum Putting the laughter back into slaughter

I found out more information from the person I mentioned whose mobile phone and service is really bad. Model: LG Service: Verizon I hear very good response for Verizon. So I think the main problem is the LG mobile phone. It is no good! I will go with Verizon or Cingular service and definitely Nokia phone. Nokia seems simple and works great. Kuphryn

Maybe my line of work is a little different to most developers, but I run a Toshiba Satellite P20-531, P4 3.2Ghz HT, Windows Media Center, 512Mb, 80Gb, 17 Inch Wide screen, Nvidia display, DVD Multi Drive ( DVD-R and DVD RAM ) with a TV Tuner. Apart from the excitement of watching TV, and photos and stuff on a small screen the machine is excellent, but damned expensive. I work with .Net, ASP, SQL Server, PHP, MySQL plus video editing ( thanks to the firewire port ) and music production. I'd never swap it for anything else. The only problem is weight... somewhere near 5 Kilos and battery life... about 2.5 Hours. You have to plug this in to use for a long time. Built in bluetooth allows my to sync with my Pocket PC and use my phone to stay in touch wherever, and built in WLAN is a necessity.... especially in Europe where support is pretty good ( Hamburg is one of the best places in the world for WLAN hotspots and legit services ) The sound quality is excellent, better than any other laptop I've had thanks to the Harmon/kardon speakers, wireless can be turned off at the flick of a physical switch and the metal topped keyboard layout provides good wrist support whilst typing. Plus of course it looks damned good, coming in a bright red metallic looking case. The screen is also the greatest I've used surpassing any flat screen for viewing angle. I've always used Dells because you can configure them so well, but this has changed my mind. It's horses for courses though. If you need real power for 3D graphics, film post production etc, you pay more and end up with a huge machine. If you need to travel a lot it always going to be a compromise between power, size and battery life. IbizaMike "May you live in interesting times" - a curse or an opportunity?

One reason I am asking so many questions about graphics programming is because I've found that there are very few graphics programming books. For example, if you were to search Amazon, say, database programming, you'd see many more results than graphics programming. My point is there are very few books on graphics programming. I read that the one drawback to graphics programming using OpenGL on the Win32 platform is the fact that MS does not update the to the latest OpenGL library, which is 1.4. MS only port up to version 1.1 or 1.2. Secondly, version 2.0 is already in the works. However, there is no plan to port it to the Windows platform. Right now I am seriously considering these two books. One is on OpenGL. The other book is on graphics programming in C++. Both are very expensive and I do not want to buy the wrong book. OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 1.4, Fourth Edition http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321173481/qid=1084372965/sr=8-1/ref=pd\_ka\_1/002-9611673-6764029?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Computer Graphics with OpenGL (3rd Edition) by Donald Hearn and M. Pauline Baker http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130153907/ref=pd\_sim\_books\_3/002-9611673-6764029?v=glance&s=books Please give inputs if you have read them. Also, other recommendations and good online tutorials would be greatly appreciated. Kuphryn

Okay. Thanks. Kuphryn

Nice!!! You have to love the [] operator. Thanks, Kuphryn

If you are using table styles and they don't apply to the current data binding, that what you should expect to see. Instead of an ArrayList, use an int[] array and use "int[]" as the DataGridTableStyle.MappingName. See the documentation for DataGridTableStyle.MappingName in the .NET Framework SDK for more information. Are you even using table styles? If so, maybe try not adding them and you should see something. Again, a data source can be anything that implements IList or IListSource. Some controls' DataSource properties will even except IEnumerable implementations as a last resort. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Heath Stewart wrote: Best darn books I've ever read. Those are the book recommendations I would expect from you Heath, absolutely. ;) - Nick Parker My Blog | My Articles

I often read about fully OO feature in languages including Java and C#. How important is object-oriented paradigm? Nonetheless, the good things seem to point to platform-independence rather than the OO paradigm. How would you evaluate fully OO paradigm (C#, Java, etc) to a flexible programming language like C++ that gives the developer unsurpassed control without going to ASM? Kuphryn

Okay. Thanks. Kuphryn

Okay. Thanks. Kuphryn

The following feature of java is better than c++: 1."once write, run anywhere" 2.The common standard class library. 3.Garbage Collection mechanism, no problem of memory leaking. ... So java is very suitable Enterprise Computing. Thinking-Asking-Thinking. I'm a Chinese man.

Also Visual C++ will be used when you don't want to allow users to do reverse engineering on your code to see how it works. Companies will write their sensitive modules in standard (Visual) C++ that implements various business secrets. Then they will use managed C++ to write an interface that can easily be accessed from .NET code. This however means that you need to learn to code managed C++, but only so much to write these (relatively simple) kind of interfaces. For many companies, using Dotfuscator will not be enough. /Patric

There's Codewarrior (http://www.metrowerks.com[^]) for PalmOS and eMbedded Tools (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/downloads/developer/default.mspx[^]) available free from Microsoft for PocketPC. Also I thought the new version of Borland worked with Palm?

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