Hello all, I couldn't decide if this question fitted here or superuser. I guess it can be moved if not appropriate. I am developing a new piece of software with somebody else and we are half way now. However, the changes we now make are getting messy as we do not know what changes have been made. So I wanted to know what you guys use t...
Hi What is the best way to manage Connection to access to a database while developing a windows application using c#? I mean having a project-wide connection object variable that opens by application start and closes and disposes by application end OR within every procedure (for example select, insert, update,...) that uses a connection...
We are having 7 different components and 7 different enviournments where we install all of these components. So when these components are installed on these different env there are chances that we missout changing the server names in urls. Any suggestions of managing these many eviournment config files in nicely fashioned way. ...
Hi I'm having a problem implementing this method. I have added using System.Management but the class still doesn't work. The error is: Error 7 The type or namespace name 'ManagementBaseObject' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Help would be appreciated. ...
Hi! My whole life I have been programming in simple plain text editor. Lately, I was contemplating about joining an open source project which is fairly large and written in C. I downloaded the sources, started to look around, read this, forget that... Then I thought to myself: this can't be true. This is 21st century there must be som...
We have a relatively small team of developers with less than 5 people in it and a project manager. What do you think is the typical set of responsibilities a project manager should have in such a team ? I am looking at the thing more from the developer's perspective and want to know what should I expect from the manager and what should I...
I've just been offered a fantastic but intimidating job opportunity and I wanted to know if anyone out there had any suggestions for handling the situation. The issues are these: Trying to bring together large numbers of disparate sites maintained and updated by different people while nominally remaining under a single umbrella compan...
Seriously, is this a good idea? Is it reasonable to instruct your team to read certain books - outside of business hours! Before you write me off as a crackpot, bear with me... I head a medium-sized team (6 developers and 5 testers). We have quite a well documented software dev process that we adhere to most of the time. In o...
We're looking to replace an internal system used for managing training classes with something a bit more robust. Needs to be open-source or have a license level that grants access to source, and needs to be ASP.net (C# preferred, but could live with VB.net) Ultimately, we'll need to be able to assign facilities and instructors, manage a...
I'm using Amazon SimpleDB for my web application. I'm looking for a tool like phpMyAdmin that will allow me to administer the database from one place (see all my Domains, view all records - run test queries etc) but all I can find is the free firefox plugin from Bizo http://dev.bizo.com/2008/12/open-source-simple-db-firefox-plugin.html...
To preface, I've been working with C# for a few months, but I'm completely unfamiliar with concepts like deployment and assemblies, etc. My questions are many and varied, although I'm furiously Googling and reading about them to no avail (I currently have Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform in front of me). We have this process and it...
I am a technical team leader of a small programming team, working on a project for an external client. I was recently asked to produce written evaluations of my team members. I feel uncomfortable doing this, because I don't see myself as a management person and never thought of my colleagues much deeper than "A is reliable and B is a la...
I'm forever downloading elements that I think will be useful when designing or developing a website - icons, fonts, psd's etc. The trouble is i've so much of this stuff, I don't actually know what I have already! I've tried breaking it down into relevant folders and sub folders and this used to work. But I'm wondering how other desin...
The more I am in the industry the more it appears to me that the average developers that I have met along my way are not really passionate about getting better in any way (e.g. reading books or articles, participating in communities outside the company like SO etc.). While I realize that at least until there will be enough qualified pe...
Hi. Researching various open source, web-based document management/version control systems. I've checked google/questions here, etc... I'm looking for a lightweight web-based (apache) document mgmt/version control app that runs on top of SVN. I need to have the ability to: have multiple users checkin/checkout have a workflow (when u...
Hey all, I am trying to use ManagementEventWatcher in a service to keep track of when a computer goes in and out of sleep mode. I am new to .NET and C# so I am struggling quite a bit to come up with syntax to make this work. I have found a blog post that details how he used ManagementEventWatcher to keep track of this status, but he d...
Hi all, I am trying to create a simple service in C# using VS2008 that creates a text file when the computer goes into sleep mode. My current code throws out the following error: 'SleepNotifierService.WqlEventQuery' does not contain a constructor that takes '1' arguments Now I looked in the Object browser, and it looks like it doe...
I am interesting in hearing if others have addressed release management for Silverlight applications. I have a business application that is to be released shortly andam concerned about how to "release" updates to this application. Typically this application's users will leave the application open all day (and potentially all night) w...
We are a start-up, with a few (14) clients using our products. These products were developed in a close source web development framework only maintained by one developer on the core. Basically the framework server is required to be able to run any application built in it. So there is no code, in our layer of the application. Think of...
This is not about comprehension. This is about "I want to find where this class is defined." I recently had this "insight" where each class in its own .cpp/.hpp file (Java style) each namespace is its own directory So something like Geometry::Math::Vector3 would be in Geometry/Math/Vector3.hpp and Geometry/Math/Vector3.cpp Have ...