In an excellent recent question folks talked about whether they'd choose MVC versus .NET winforms for your next project. In the hope of escaping some of the perpetual maintenance programming that seems to plague my career (and to have something to blog about), I'm going through getting .NET / ASP.NET certified. That's fine as far as th...
I have a project that's built on SharePoint Smart Templates. I don't have a web part, so I deleted the cs file. Instead all I have is a blank feature. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" Id="{6447a5a5-c6c7-4aee-b7c5-b7417e30c03f}" Title="My Content Types" ...
My experience with it has been that it's a total mess, and causes problems that are difficult to diagnose and fix for non-black-belt Windows developers. What are the use cases that make COM shine? ...
Alright. While there are a few blog posts here and there purporting to make this process easy, this is absolutely driving me crazy. Here's what I've done: I've installed FreeTDS (with and without +mssql) but encounter problems when I use it to connect to my remote DB instance. When I attempt tsql -H [remote-db-ip] -p 1433 -U [valid-...
Given I'm: a solo developer using VS2008 Professional looking for Microsoft-produced source control (I'm aware there are alternatives) looking to get away from Visual SourceSafe 2005 Is it correct that my only option is to drop ~$8k on Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition ($5,469) + Team Foundation Server ($2,799) - in ...
My task is to use Microsofts Visio ActiveX control (Visio Viewer) to visualise a Visio document in a web page and to catch the events generated by user clicks. My immediate problem is to generate the AxVisOcx assembly. Explained below: ActiveX control wrapper assembly that allows the control to be embedded within a Windows Form ...
Note: NOT Javascript. :-) Hello, I just had a random thought, and have decided to learn more Jscript. I know the basics, I'm proficient in HTML, XML and C++ BUT, there doesn't seem to be much docs on Jscript. The official MS Documentation for JScript contains a WHOPPING ONE WHOLE PAGE about web-page development in Jscript! And that pa...
While there are a handful of great programs for ISV Startups (BizSpark, Emplower ISV, etc), the only option avaiable for non-startups seems to be Visual Studio w/ MSDN. It's not that expensive (I was quoted $10,080/yr for 8 developers), but I'm fairly sure that we'd be just as fine without it. We need pretty standard dev workstations (W...
I've done a pretty decent amount of looking on the inter-webs, searching for ways to improve the poor performance of my WPF DataGrid control. I came across this little gem from this article, but I can't seem to find anything about it in the documentation. Can someone point me to where in the docs I might find how to manipulate how Virt...
Good Day I have created a program in ms-access 2007, (in house program), Is it possible to create a stand alone program from access (.exe) thank you ...
Hi SO gurus! I am currently on a short research project. The company I work at has a very heavy release process that is getting worse as time progresses. We are encountering more and more issues with each release, which is starting to severely impact our delivery schedules and the quality of each release. We provide a large SAAS produc...
I am curious about the strategies adopted by the two leading vendors on MVC. Whereas microsoft has currently unvieled MVC 2 and Oracle seems to have Oracle ADF which is based on Java and JSF but provides darg and drop functionality . Does this mean in the MVC race because of Oracle ADF drag and drop they are ahead of microsoft in this ?...
My question is simple. What do they do? The accepted answer below is a list of the .NET SDK Tools that come in the framework. ...
Hi, I would like to know if there are good tutorials for Microsoft Sharepoint. Specifically solutions that involves routing documents for approval. Use of Microsoft Infopath for form making and Microsoft SQL Server for the database is needed. What I meant by good is that the quality that they possess is similar to the video tutorials ...
I like the drag & drop feature of the skydrive file upload control. How do i go about developing a similar control? ...
I'm trying to view a "Hello world" report using Microsoft Reporting Services in a web application. The reports I'll be creating are always refreshed when viewed (ie. no saved data) so I see no reason to use the Report Manager. I want to include the rdlc file's in my web application itself where I'll have an aspx page that hosts the Rep...
what is meant by dependencies in merge module? ...
Hi all , i'm trying to run the .msu file in the vista platform through command prompt my command looks like this **" startfile.exe Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu /quiet /norestart "** startfile.exe is a blank exe through which i'm executing the .msu file . The Error from the command prompt is "the application has ...
I've been using Mootools for the last couple of months without knowing that MS was including JQuery with their new releases (like MVC). Now I'm not sure if I should switch to JQuery considering that I will be developing on MS tools and frameworks for the next years. I would like to hear from more experienced developers. Thanks! ...
Is it possible to draw a road using bing maps js api? Ideally I would supply two georeference points and the trajectory/road would be always on the same road. Basically, I want to highlight a road. ...