Silverlight clipboard images

2013-07-11 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, just another heads-up ... in relation to our attempts last week to bridge the gap between a Silverlight 5 app and desktop Office apps, my first job this morning was to allow users to copy a picture of a chart to the clipboard. Sadly I found this immediately: *Clipboard Class Silverlight

(friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Preet Sangha
About 2 years ago I opted to purchase a laptop that was the fastest I could afford but not paying stupid money. My work these days is mostly heavy database work so every gram of performance helps. It has a Sandybridge I7 and 16G of Ram. The key thing that sold me this laptop was that it supports

Re: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Greg Keogh
How much did it cost 2 years ago? Greg

Re: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Preet Sangha
It is an MSI GT680 The laptop was about 2000 and the two SSDs were about 800 so say about 2400$ AUD On 12 July 2013 14:50, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: How much did it cost 2 years ago?

RE: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
I bought my first SSD in Sept '09 (128GB OCZ Vertex) for around A$500. Even at that price, I would say it's good value. The performance delta vs. the old drive and improvement in my feelings about using a computer in general justified the price IMHO. These days, you seem to be able to get good

Re: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
Totally agree. I've taken work laptops and put my own SSD hard drive in them in the past (without asking for permission usually. They hire me trusting that I know what I'm doing, and I know that it will mean I won't be sitting about waiting for stuff to happen). I did some benchmarking on build

Re: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

2013-07-11 Thread Grant Maw
Another thing I have found that keeps me moving, albeit a lesser thing, is a decent keyboard. Particularly for us older fellows (I am looking at you Greg Keogh) who grew up on solid hardware instead of the flimsy plastic rubbish that gets sold these days, a decent keyboard boosts productivity off

Scaling HTML

2013-07-11 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
If I have a server that sends me a bunch of HTML (ie a web page) and I want to insert it within my MVC4 page, but I want to auto-scale it to a particular size, any suggestions about how I'd best go about that? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low CEO and Principal Mentor SQL Down Under SQL

Re: Scaling HTML

2013-07-11 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
What does auto-scale it mean? Does it have fixed widths coded into the html that you wish to change somehow based on page size? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:02 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: If I have a server that sends me a bunch of HTML (ie a web page) and I want to insert it

RE: Scaling HTML

2013-07-11 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Hi Craig, One example would be an HTML report that normally opens as a web page. I have no control over the contents of the HTML but I’d like the have it appear within a region of my own page where I control the size. It could well contain fixed sizes, tables, etc. that I cannot control.

Re: Scaling HTML

2013-07-11 Thread Tony Wright
Hi Greg, Have you considered using an IFRAME? It would compartmentalise the markup. Regards, Tony On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: Hi Craig, ** ** One example would be an HTML report that normally opens as a web page. I have no control over