Most of the work I do is with what could be considered enterprise Web applications. These projects have large budgets, longer timelines (from 3-12 months), and heavy customizations. Because as developers we have been touting the idea of the Web as the next desktop OS, customers are coming to expect the software running on this "new OS" t...
As of the fall of 2008 I'm about to embark on a new development cycle for a major product that has a winforms and an asp.net interface. We use Telerik, DevExpress and Infragistics components in it and all are going to have a release within a month or so which will be the one I target for our spring release of our product. They all su...
We're currently running a server on Compatability mode 8 and I want to update it. What are the implications of just going in and changing it? What is likely to break? Is there anything that checks the data will survive before I perform it? Can I rollback to mode 8 without performing a restore and without loss of data? ...
Is there a framework that can be used to enable a C# Windows Service to automatically check for a newer version and upgrade itself? I can certainly write code to accomplish this, but I am looking for a framework that has already been implemented and (most importantly) tested. ...
I work on a large C# application (approximately 450,000 lines of code), we constantly have problems with desktop heap and GDI handle leaks. WPF solves these issues, but I don't know what is the best way to upgrade (I expect this is going to take a long time). The application has only a few forms but these can contain many different sets ...
At work I'm using Perl 5.8.0 on Windows. When I first put Perl on, I went to CPAN, downloaded all the sources, made a few changes (in the .MAK file? to support threads, or things like that), and did nmake / nmake test / nmake install. Then, bit by bit, I've downloaded individual modules from CPAN and done the nmake dance. So, I'd like ...
Are there good efficiency savings using Sql Server 2005 over Sql Server 2000? Or does it just have more services etc Has anyone seen their system work any quicker after making the upgrade? ...
I'm looking for the single biggest reason you are glad that you've already made the jump from SQL2000 to SQL2005. ...
I have a Windows Installer MSI package that installs drivers which sometimes require a restart before they can be upgraded; the drivers are installed by a deferred custom action after WriteRegistryValues. When a reboot IS needed there's a rollback and the user is told to reboot and run the install again. In the InstallExecuteSequence ...
We're currently running with php 5.2.5. We have now encountered a bug that creates a seg fault. Our first idea at the solution is upgrading to version 5.2.6 but are skeptical of problems that it will create. We are running Apache and host a dozen or so sites. Will any existing code break? Are there any significant changes to be aware o...
I've been reading about the new developer-only RC0 for Silverlight, and the fact that it is supposed to be used only by developers to solve any breaking changes when upgrading from beta 2, so that when the actual S2 is released, migration is smoother. My question is, since you are supposed to uninstall B2 tools and install RC0 in VS2008...
Is there a recommended way to upgrade Quartz in JBoss 4.2.x? JBoss bundles quartz 1.5.2, but I have encountered issues (QUARTZ-399, QUARTZ-520) that I want to avoid. I would not want to patch quartz.jar in JBoss just to resolve the errors, but instead provide a new quartz.jar (plus associated configuration artifacts). The Quartz 1.6 mi...
What are best practices for moving/exporting SQL Server Integration Services Packages from a SQL Server 2005 DB over to 2008? What are some of the security concerns? ...
I am currently using Rails 2.1.0 and want to upgrade to Rails 2.1.1. After issuing the following command gem update rails I suppose that I need to change this line RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.1.0' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION in environment.rb What other actions should I take to ensure that my application is using the latest ver...
Looking for a better Windows XP command-line interface. The Visual Studio Command Prompt isn't near as nice as the Linux/OSX terminals. Thoughts? edit: Answers: Console on Sourceforge, and the Windows Powershell. Thanks, I'll go dig them up and evaluate them. The Cygwin package is too much overhead for what I want. edit2: Looks like...
A project I'm working on requires serializing a data structure before shutting down and restores its state from this serialized data when it start up again. Last year, we were building for .NET 1.1, and ran into a tricky issue where our code ran on .NET 2.0 a customer upgraded with some software that somehow set 1.1 as default our cod...
What issues or refactoring did you have to do when you upgraded from ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 to the newly released Beta version? ...
I've read a number of posts touting the merits of migrating from VS 2005 to 2008. However, I'd love to hear what the various pitfalls are in actually doing the migration. We're about to migrate and I'd prefer knowing what speed bumps to anticipate and plan for instead of discovering them by surprise along the way. Any helpful guidance on...
We are changing from vs2003 to vs2005 and use vb as our primary language, I am looking for some of the changes to VB that will be helpful in our ASP.NET development. Can someone point me to a list (maybe from microsoft?) or provide some of their favaorite differences between the two versions? ...
When upgrading MySQL, I first create a backup of the database. Then I will uninstall the current version installed, and delete all the files that were left by the installer. Then I install the latest GA version, and restore the created back-up, using the MySQL Administrator. Is there a better way of doing an upgrade of the MySQL. Becaus...