Sharepoint 2010 - Is it safe to delete doc library templates?

2011-10-26 Thread Winston Pang
Hey everyone, Quick question, if you have a doc library template, and you've created some doc library instances based off this template, is it safe to remove this template once you're done with it? Thanks. -Winston

Re: WinRT vs World+Dog

2011-09-27 Thread Winston Pang
I thought so, I don't think it's anything different to today, what the Windows team has learnt and taken is to mandate asynchronous calls for all Metro apps (A silverlight thing), sandbox and restrict file access, bring more friendly looking API's (A .NET thing). Correct me if I'm wrong,

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
Man it totally sucks. I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so it wont run the Windows 8 x64 version, which is the only version that has the VS2011 express dev tools, GAHHH And that link requires MSDN subscription only. On Fri, Sep 16,

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 ** ** Man it totally sucks. ** ** I wanted

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Winston Pang
for this is to go into settings and on Network-Adapter1-Advanced choose the generic (Intel PRO/1000 MT) network card. Hope that helps Grant On 16 September 2011 14:19, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, nice, thanks Ken, I was using virtual box, but it crapped itself. So I thought

Re: Web Development

2011-08-09 Thread Winston Pang
Simon, as others said, it's not all doom and gloom, some employers might push you down on salary, or some wouldn't mind, or you can go into another company that does WinForms as a prime and ASP.NET in addition, so you can learn as you go. Do not feel pressured to rush and cram yourself with

Re: System.Data classes and ListT

2011-07-24 Thread Winston Pang
Yeah, originally I thought the same too, filling a gap, but it I believe with my amateur time with doing WP7 development, this is mainly the canonical way of consuming data for WP7 apps, always makes me wonder why, as it seems heavy over 3G for phones transmitting this verbose bunch of XML data.

Re: System.Data classes and ListT

2011-07-23 Thread Winston Pang
That's interesting, if it's not good practice to send back entities over WCF, then why is WCF Data Services around? That's a curious question I have. On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I am wondering if these days the done thing is not to bind the output of an ORM

Re: System.Data classes and ListT

2011-07-20 Thread Winston Pang
I think you just answered yourself, keyword is convenience. Isn't that what all these frameworks are for? To make things convenient for us developers. Sure people get bored of technologies pretty quickly, but what ever does the job, and if you know it well and can achieve better results with it,

Re: Silverlight 4 OOB for Mac- Drag drop?

2011-07-20 Thread Winston Pang
Thanks for the responses guys, looks like the general consensus is a no. And any attempts at doing so is more of a hack and illusion. Cheers again to everyone! :) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Winston, I also think it’s not possible, but I’m not 100% sure. I

Silverlight 4 OOB for Mac- Drag drop?

2011-07-19 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, Work wants an app done, and just wondering if Silverlight has the capability to do the following, taking into account the app is SL4 and running OOB and with full trust. - Drag something from a listbox in the app to desktop for example (needs to be cross platform compatible) -

Re: WPF Setting ScaleTransform values

2011-07-07 Thread Winston Pang
Hi Greg, What's the storyboard definition look like? Typically storyboards hold onto a value, and setting a local value has no effect. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: imgWatermark.RenderTransform).Children[1] = new ScaleTransform(0,0,0,0);** ** ** ** Sadly,

Re: Govt .net jobs?

2011-05-22 Thread Winston Pang
Is this an indication that I should be hanging out at pubs to score a govt job? :p On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: love this thread. We went from Govt jobs etc to Piss... Love it. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, May 20,

Re: Govt .net jobs?

2011-05-22 Thread Winston Pang
Doh :( On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Wrong type of piss Winston... On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Is this an indication that I should be hanging out at pubs to score a govt job? :p On Mon, May 23, 2011

Govt .net jobs?

2011-05-12 Thread Winston Pang
For a nice little friday discussion, I was wondering, where someone would actually go to look for full time govt based jobs in the .NET area? Actualy, do they even exist? I'm talking about Sydney based ones.

Re: JetBrains enters the .NET decompilation business

2011-05-11 Thread Winston Pang
All these alternatives, still love Reflector, JetBrains one looks pretty crap in terms of usability and flow, the Telerik one is a good competition so is the ILSpy one, interesting point, Telerik and ILSpy both leverage the Mono Cecil library for the magic, but doesn't seem like JetBrains do. On

Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much

2011-05-02 Thread Winston Pang
Yay, I ain't the only one either, I hate it as well. They claim it's faster, but god damn do I have these intermittent jerks and lags with it, sometimes it's resizing smoothly then jerk it locks up. On a bloody plain text page even! I've disabled every single add-on as well. I mean it actually

Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much

2011-05-02 Thread Winston Pang
user. Good UI is psychology more than engineering. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: I mean it actually feels a lot slower to load her up as well, compared to chrome, not sure

Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much

2011-05-02 Thread Winston Pang
, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: I mean it actually feels a lot slower to load her up as well, compared to chrome, not sure how google did it, but it feels so much more smoother and faster to use

Re: WPF dialog never displayed

2011-04-05 Thread Winston Pang
Does the constructor of PleaseWaitDialog ever get hit? What does InitializeDialog do internally? Are you sure it's not because you're doing the long running operation, is that operation threaded? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.au wrote: I need to display a

[OT] Good sites to sell furniture?

2011-03-29 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, A little OT. Apart from ebay, and gumtree, any of you guys have any other good sites to sell off furniture? I've been trying to sell an IKEA Galant desk for months on ebay/gumtree and other forums, but no interested peeps, so trying to look for other sites which might be popular to

Re: [OT] Good sites to sell furniture?

2011-03-29 Thread Winston Pang
!! On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, A little OT. Apart from ebay, and gumtree, any of you guys have any other good sites to sell off furniture? I've been trying to sell an IKEA Galant desk for months on ebay/gumtree and other forums

Re: Raising property changed events

2011-03-22 Thread Winston Pang
Yeah, it's so damn annoying to have to expand an auto property to do raised events, but in some cases you need to, most of the time for RaisePropertyChanges I'd opt to use a extension/helper method that accepts a lambda: RaisePropertyChange(()= this.PropertyName); But I'd only use that in

Re: IE9 RTW

2011-03-16 Thread Winston Pang
Anybody having issues with flash bogging it down? I know chrome sandboxes the bitch but still manages to crash in some cases, but just going to ninemsn (such a horrible piece of shit of a website) and playing a video, left one fresh ie tab/instance at 300 megs of memory, and it's latest

Re: IE9 RTW

2011-03-15 Thread Winston Pang
I'm not too excited with IE anymore regardless. Developer tools are still ass. Release cycles are still too long, yeah sure they might be a step ahead now with perf, but meh, in a matter of months the other competitors will chase up and surpass IE. Although the UI for IE9 is a lot simplified and

Re: I.T. resume

2011-03-08 Thread Winston Pang
lol, I agree with the buzzword matrix, when recruiters who use to call me about a Web Development role and include WPF and WinForms and C++ in the whole mix of it, I thought they were reading off a long list of crap. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Something for Friday

2011-02-17 Thread Winston Pang
The engineer clearly didn't read the her specs right, it did say one carton lol. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:14 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: This came from one of the other lists I am on: A wife asks her husband, a software engineer, Could you please go shopping for me and buy one

Re: Something for Friday

2011-02-17 Thread Winston Pang
Oh wait, I just read it again haha I get it. Nice On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: The engineer clearly didn't read the her specs right, it did say one carton lol. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:14 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: This came from

[OT] Selling 30 monitor, good place to advert, apart from usual places

2011-01-18 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, I'm trying to sell my 30 Dell monitor, have advertised on gumree, ebay, some usual forums, still no interested buyers. Anyone know of any other good places people lurking around for sales? Cheers, Winston

Re: System wide Hot Key...

2011-01-14 Thread Winston Pang
the selected text and then my application will receive this hot key message and I can read the clipboard. Thanks again for your help and everyone else. --Winston On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com

Re: Code Folding in VS 2010

2010-12-23 Thread Winston Pang
That logic is flawed if you have a 30 Monitor :p On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Nathan Schultz milish...@gmail.com wrote: Bill McCarthy speaketh the truth. The old rule of thumb is that if you can't fit a method in one page without scrolling, then you should consider re-factoring. That

Re: Friday question - How to find my MSDN Subscription

2010-11-25 Thread Winston Pang
Isn't it generally tied in with your nominated Windows Live ID? Go to the MSDN subscription website and sign in with it, and look for manage subscriptions. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:44 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com

Re: Free beta certification exams for Silverlight 4 Azure

2010-10-14 Thread Winston Pang
Thanks for the heads up David. On 15/10/2010, at 10:48 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the list would be interested in this Microsoft just announced the availability of beta exams for Silverlight 4 Windows Azure. They will be available until November 17th. It is a

Re: Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file limited to 3MB

2010-10-13 Thread Winston Pang
This is exactly the same problem I'm suffering: http://efreedom.com/Question/1-3413839/Upload-Large-File-Sharepoint-Silverlight However the answer doesn't work. I've posted on the Sharepoint forums on MSDN as well, no reply either. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Winston Pang winstonp

Re: Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file limitedto 3MB

2010-10-13 Thread Winston Pang
Park, Western Australia -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:49 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file

Re: Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file limitedto 3MB

2010-10-13 Thread Winston Pang
-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:22 AM *To:* michaelsli...@gmail.com; ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file limitedto 3MB I'm doing the upload via Silverlight because it's a custom form

Silverlight - Sharepoint 2010 List Item, Uploading file limited to 3MB

2010-10-12 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, I've got a custom silverlight web part, which will attach files to a List Item, but it'm running into issues with file sizes limited to 3 megs only. I've tried configuring the web.config's to up the max request limit, and I've also tried configuring the upload size limit in Central

Re: NuPack

2010-10-07 Thread Winston Pang
I like the idea, although it's not new, since ruby had the same concept and perl/cgi did as well I think. Anyways, it's good to see that they're integrating it with VS now. Certainly makes me more of a lazier person, and I can spend more time on trying new libraries than figuring out what the hell

Re: Chair Recommendations

2010-10-05 Thread Winston Pang
Holy moly, how much did it set you back? Last time I saw it, it was at like 1300, discounted even... On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote: I've had an Aeron for about 8 yearsI love it. It is super comfortable to sit in, and shows virtually no wear.

Sharepoint 2010 - Custom Forms/Silverlight..

2010-08-17 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, Doing a little bit of SP2010 work. Basically I want to build a custom form in silverlight, I know how to do it with a web part, but I don't understand how to hook it up in association, i.e. Say there is a custom list called 'Clients' Typically, it will generate the boiler plate

Re: Rules regarding modifying members acces modifer through inheritence

2010-08-04 Thread Winston Pang
Well I don't think they would want to expose it as public if it adds no complete value to the whole picture, it may very well be marked as protected so that child classes have a set of helper methods so to speak, for them to extend the parent to more interesting levels. That's about the most

So it's friday eve time for a random discussion!

2010-07-28 Thread Winston Pang
Alright, so it's almost friday, and I figure I'll spark a discussion. Since I'm always eavesdropping into conversations going in at work, I find a lot of dodgy things happen, very unethical ways of making money and getting business, I'm guessing it really is the norm in all business's. So how

Re: VB10 auto readonly properties?

2010-07-15 Thread Winston Pang
Don't think it's supported, has to be the long way, i.e. ReadOnly Property Test As String Get End Get End Property ReadOnly Property On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: In C# I can do this public string MyProperty { get;

Re: VB10 auto readonly properties?

2010-07-15 Thread Winston Pang
Also, backing connect report: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/457176/readonly-auto-implemented-properties On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.comwrote: Don't think it's supported, has to be the long way, i.e. ReadOnly Property

Replacing text in a docx file with .NET

2010-06-27 Thread Winston Pang
Hey guys, I'm trying to fix this issue at work, one of the developers currently have it unzipping the docx and opening up the XML file and just doing a find replace on pre-defined keywords, like {name} for example. However, we've run into a snag where word, tends to structure their XML document

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-26 Thread Winston Pang
the real problem. Kind Regards Arjang On 26 May 2010 14:12, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Well, firstly. The client is govt, and we're really dealing with their internal IT team, who would eventually do supporting for the system. I have no say in whether we do it or not, I've

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-26 Thread Winston Pang
and spiritual benefits of such code can be truly enjoyed. If all your codebase was the way you'd write it then you might as well have written it yourself. You can still be a craftsman and care about what you do. :) On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [OT] Developers, developers, developers!

2010-05-26 Thread Winston Pang
Looks exciting. Pitty it's way too far from me. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Chris Fulstow chris.fuls...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys We're looking for .NET web developers to join us at Community Engine in Sydney's northern beaches: .NET Tech Lead .NET Senior Developers .NET Support

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-26 Thread Winston Pang
Not quite related. It's basically just Lambda Expressions, google that. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: it seems this is called lambda dependency and lambda binding I found this :

Re: [OT] Developers, developers, developers!

2010-05-26 Thread Winston Pang
Chris, can you guys relocate to Sydney CBD? :p On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM, DotNet Dude adotnetd...@gmail.com wrote: Stop rubbing it in On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Chris Fulstow chris.fuls...@gmail.com wrote: A few more perks to entice you :) Gym, pool, table tennis, 2 Km from

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-25 Thread Winston Pang
needing to regenerate the assembly. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, This is more of a question of whether or not this sounds feasible and has anyone seen anyone do this: Typically with most ASP.NET controls, lets take the ComboBox

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-25 Thread Winston Pang
it. I just wanted to see what people though of it, I quite frankly think it's stupid and unnecessary. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 08:35, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, This is more of a question of whether

Re: Filtering algorithm strategies to mimic intellisense

2010-05-16 Thread Winston Pang
some other standard data structure such as a tree. Mitch *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Monday, 17 May 2010 7:41 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Filtering algorithm strategies to mimic intellisense Hey

WPF RichTextBox, Get caret index

2010-05-04 Thread Winston Pang
Hi guys, Does anyone know how to accurately get the current caret index in the RTB? Thanks. Winston

Re: What makes C# awesome?

2010-04-28 Thread Winston Pang
Every aspect of .NET is really a combination of things that make it awesome. First and foremost, is a great IDE, tooling is where MS got it right, and it's what makes people like it. Also as someone has mentioned the .NET Framework, a lot of C# is syntax sugar, and which relies on the framework

WPF Routed Events - Tunneling, not quite...

2010-04-22 Thread Winston Pang
So, I was trying to use Tunneling to notify the children of a parent element, I was mistaken to believe that it actually did what I thought it would. It only tunnels up to the source that raised it, which in this case is the parent. Has anyone found anyway to notify child elements, through routed

Re: VS2010 is on MSDN

2010-04-12 Thread Winston Pang
:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Monday, April 12, 2010 4:19 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: VS2010 is on MSDN YAY! Now, I need an MSDN subscription :(:( On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Matt Siebert mlsieb

Re: WPF Book Recommendations?

2010-03-29 Thread Winston Pang
Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Nic Roche nicro...@hotmail.com wrote: Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? He is well informed in this space, and

Re: WPF Book Recommendations?

2010-03-29 Thread Winston Pang
AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P ... that's the opposite of perfectionism. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/

Re: ASP.NET MVP

2010-03-25 Thread Winston Pang
this. There are computational/perf issues which you’d need to consider when going this approach. Testability wise, both are equal. - Glav *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:39 AM

ASP.NET MVP

2010-03-24 Thread Winston Pang
Alright guys, So at work, we're looking to use MVP in our project. Can't use any frameworks, so webformsmvp is out of the question. The pattern seems trivial enough, but there seems to be a variety of implementations. One thing I can't pick from is: 1) Add events on the View interface and have

Re: ASP.NET MVP

2010-03-24 Thread Winston Pang
about). Best regards, Michael Lyons *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang *Sent:* Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:39 AM *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com *Subject:* ASP.NET MVP Alright guys, So at work, we're looking to use