I have installed a hotfix package for Sharepoint and after that I found out that there was another for WSS... I understand that, as long that we have separate hotfixes for WSS and Sharepoint, if for solving one problem, there aren't both Sharepoint and WSS hotfixes (I mean, that one component is only affected by the WSS one), I can norm...
What are some good solutions for handling automatic web based software updates for windows forms projects? I am aware of microsoft one-click, but am not interested in it at this time. ...
I'm going to be distributing a plugin that will be routinely updated with features, bug fixes, and updates to downloadable corpuses. The usual update site mechanism can do the update ok - when the user asks it to. The problem is that (unlike MS Office), the automatic updater preference is off by default and I don't want to change that ...
I have a program that, for the most part, operates in the background. Let's say it DoesWork(). Once a week, I want it to notify the user on some of the work it has completed over the past few days. It will be a basic status report, listing some files that have been downloaded. Initially, I wanted to sent this status update via email,...
Moments ago Jeff Atwood said the following on twitter: Look, I love rapid new software releases, but the frequency of WordPress releases is just ridiculous. Which makes me think, how often should you release software updates? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly? Whats the best release strategy? ...
I installed Aptana Studio plugins for Eclipse and now Eclipse startup is slower than ever because Aptana Studio always checks for updates at startup -- and it's really slow! How do I turn off auto updates in Aptana? ...
I'm looking for a good, simple PHP function to get my latest Facebook status updates. Anyone know of one? Thanks! EDIT: I've added a half-solution below. Or if anyone knows a good way to read in the RSS feed and spit out the recent status update? ...
I have an old system that uses XML for it's data storage. I'm going to be using the data for another mini-project and wanted to use LINQ to XML for querying/updating the data; but there's 2 scenarios that I'm not sure whether I need to handle myself or not: 1- If I have something similar to the following code, and 2 people happen to hit...
I am writing a web app in PHP, and it has come time to build an update system, one of the requirements is automatic updates, how should I do this? I want to do it without a cron, so I'm going to have to check for updates when requests are made to the system, should I do this only when an admin, with significant privs, logs-in, I think t...
Looking for a reference implementation. Haven't tried LiveGrid - though tilting towards that implementation. Before I migrate, I was wondering if anyone could point me in a better direction. ...
On my local Windows XP machine, I'm not able any more to create databases with FILESTREAM. This error is caused by one of these security updates from MS: KB952004 KB923561 KB961373 KB956572 KB959426 KB960863 Does anybody know how to resolve the problem WITHOUT removing the security updates? ...
You have a static medium, a cd, so you can't change any files on it. So how do the updates work? I understand there is come code that runs and checks if the version isn't correct, and then downloads a patch if needed, but how does that path get integrated into the game? Is there a bit of "update checking" that checks for patch files and...
I am using the following lines of code to update records based on rowid: here dsmain the dataset that i am using.... For j = 2 To AuditGrid.Rows - 1 If AuditGrid.ActiveCell.Row = j And AuditGrid.ActiveCell.Col = ColMark Then Uvalue = Trim(AuditGrid.Cell(j, ColMark).Text) da.UpdateCommand = New OracleComm...
Let's assume you're in the middle of a long running project (long running = several years) and, as expected, there will be several things coming up with brand new releases. There might be a new .Net Framework with brand new features (e.g. Linq, Entity Framework, WPF, WF...), a new Visual Studio or V.next of your favorite Control Library,...
I've been searching for an API that provides hourly/daily updates for golf statistics such as leaderboards and player rankings (free or paid) without much luck. The golf channel has a similar system but it's not exposed in anyway. Any ideas on a good place to look? ...
There is some discussion on my team about updating entity data and how best to approach it. This is a security framework and so here are some of the constraints and ideas. every table in DB has a PK that is a guid, this is required for our multi-node clustering solution. The idea is that we don't want to expose this on an entity to a ...
I am getting re-execution of imported js files upon a hitting a form button which calls a function to insert a DOM element into page ( in simulation to exe of an ajx callback function). The DOM insertion causes a page refresh which re-requests all files from server. Nothing big on the function call: var addFashionVideo = function() { ...
I'm working on an eBook app for the iPhone. Given the time it takes for Apple to review and publish updates, I'm considering adding a feature to update the content via my own (Google App Engine-powered) web site. This would allow me to update the content at will, rather than being at the mercy of the App Store review team. Is Apple ...
One of my favorite topics to discuss with my boss is the need for maintenance work, doing code updates and refining existing code with new techniques. Especially things like: a new Telerik controls update (got to love breaking changes). How do you convince your boss? ...
I am running applications on my windows server that run on Java 1.4 In the bottom right hand corner, Java wants me to update. Is this going to update to Java 1.6, or do these auto-updates only put out non breaking patches and my system will still be Java 1.4 Any insight would be great! Thanks. ...