Re: Blazor popularity and use

:" If ease of development was our primary concern we would all be building Microsoft Access apps. " You cannot be serious. "Ease of development" and "MS Access" do not belong in the same sentence. On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 14:13, David Connors via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > On Fri,

Re: Blazor popularity and use

Yes, using it in a large project. Not hiring right now afaik though On Fri, 8 Sept 2023, 11:17 am Tom Rutter via ozdotnet, < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > Is anyone here actively using Blazor on a decent sized project? I used it > for a while on my last contract but am unable to find new work

Re: [OT] VPN

Is the speed ok with Proton? Reviews indicate speed is not as good as Nord for example. On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:30, Grant Maw wrote: Using Proton. Paid version. Very happy with it, works on Linux, PC and my Android tablet. Has never let me down, has plenty of endpoints

Re: [OT] VPN

Using Proton. Paid version. Very happy with it, works on Linux, PC and my Android tablet. Has never let me down, has plenty of endpoints etc On 13/10/21 4:41 pm, Tom P wrote: Hi folks What VPN provider are some of you using at home and are happy with? There are many and mixed reviews.

Re: [OT] Windows 365 - The Verge

It might prove useful for the business market, although the intermittent reliability of NBN uptime, availability, and speed is a serious obstacle, depending on your location. Cost would be another factor, I tend to buy high spec machines and replace them every 3-4 years or so. The cost of

Avalonia and MS DI Container

Morning all Wondering if anyone has successfully integrated Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection into an Avalonia project? I've found some doco of sorts here : https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/blob/main/src/Splat.Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection/README.md but it keeps

Re: IVR for spam calls

;https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgreglow.me%2F=02%7C01%7Csspahelp%40microsoft.com%7C1f0ea4d6b97e4d897f3708d666d1e890%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636809449091526278=IU8tnAITCjBxWafi3A9XpO9lF3PIwZJ8ad3t36lnxvs%3D=0> > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotn

OT : IVR for spam calls

Hi All Long term members of this list may remember this. Quite a few years ago, someone mentioned here that they had developed some sort of IVR to which they would forward all spam callers. The IVR was such that the automated responses could keep a spammer tied up for ages, wasting their time

Re: [OT] Impact of covid19 on devs

I had one client who cut their billable time with me by 75% (fitness industry), and another who will probably do much the same later this month (agriculture sector). Both want to return to normal as soon as they can, so the overall impact will hopefully be minimal. On Mon, 1 Jun. 2020, 12:29 pm

Re: [OT] C++ directions

I would need a very good reason to choose C++ to write a new project today, a reason like needing to be close to the metal or needing very fine-grained control over performance, memory usage, and other resources. So things like writing a new OS, device drivers, high end computer games and other

Re:

I thought all credit cards use the Mod10 (Kuhn) algorithm. I seem to remember it being a safeguard against data entry errors back in the day, so this is possibly a hangover from those days. We never validate card numbers. We pass the card data to the processing gateway and let their APIs handle

Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens

It's not just Victoria. The QLD government IT projects 9ver recent years have also been rolled gold catastrophes On Wed, 23 Oct. 2019, 11:24 am Greg Keogh, wrote: > Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today >

Re: Linux for .NET Core testing

I use Kubuntu. Debian based, with no installation hassles around dr8vers and such. On Mon, 7 Oct. 2019, 7:26 pm Greg Keogh, wrote: > Folks, I want to get some experience deploying .NET Core apps to Linux, > but the classic question is … which distro? I haven't looked at this > subject for

Re: JSON deserialize

Not sure if this helps anyone, and it is not a silver bullet, but with versioning conflicts I tend to handle them in the config file under the tag : This usually takes care of any versioning issues I have as a result of adding 3rd party libraries or Nuget packages. On

Re: NUC

> options, most can have multiple screens. > > Did the VM in the cloud option not suit? > > cheers, > Stephen > > > > From: Grant Maw > Sent: Thursday, 9 May, 10:53 > Subject: NUC > To: ozDotNet > > > It's time for a new dev PC. Someone drew my

NUC

It's time for a new dev PC. Someone drew my attention to Intel's NUC recently, and was wondering if anyone had any positive or negative experiences with these? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/mini-pcs/business.html Thanks

Re: [OT] New job

bforns approach was cleaner than having php > like code mixed in views would have been handled by just a simple repeater. > > Would do webforns without hesitation , probably bring back some tricks > from MVC world with me . > > On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 12:42 pm Grant Maw

Re: [OT] New job

Good to know that someone else is doing WebForms work. Have been feeling a bit out in the cold recently :) Fraser Coast QLD is a nice spot as well. My "office" is literally in the middle of our acreage property, it's very quiet and all I can see outside are trees, birds and roos. Perfect for

Re: Web Assembly and CSHTML

ascript, there is this project on github https://github.com/aspnet/ > Blazor. This is an experimental UI Framework using C# and WebAssembly.. > It looks fairly promising, but it’s still a long way off yet. > > > > Ed. > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com

Re: Web Assembly and CSHTML

nd WebAssembly.. > It looks fairly promising, but it’s still a long way off yet. > > > > Ed. > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > > *From: *Grant Maw <grant@gmail.com> > *Sent:

Web Assembly and CSHTML

Folks I remember seeing a post on here some time back about tech choices for creating a browser based product.I am one of those still lamenting the tragic demise of Silverlight and who looks upon the stinking morass that is the Javascript "eco-system" with inconsolable horror, so I was pleased to

Re: [OT] Big Windows 10 update

Never thought I'd ever see myself switching to Linux but I have to say that I'm starting to look very, very hard at it, for all the reasons that Mike and the Gregs have outlined above. I just wonder if I REALLY need to learn a new OS at my age ... life is too short :) On 12 December 2017 at

Re: Entity Framework - the lay of the land

to use dtos. Be as explicit as possible > when querying for what I want. Not ideal, but this conversation thread has > taken me back to when I was working with Grant Maw (hi Grant! Hes on > holidays In Hawaii right now so probably not reading along) where he uses > CodeSmith to magic

Re: Database sampling for testing and demo

There used to be some data generation tools in Visual Studio some years back. These were dropped after VS2010 IIRC. A shame, because they were very useful for exactly this sort of thing. On 19 November 2015 at 16:44, DotNet Dude wrote: > We used to write scripts to do

Re: [OT] SSL testing

For those interested, I've run that script on my Windows 2008 R2 box, it worked without a hitch and took me from an F to a C. I then manually added TLS 1.2, rebooted and now I am at a B. A few more bits to do and we'll get an A. [image: Inline images 1] On 4 November 2015 at 12:45, Paul Glavich

Re: [OT] Office 365

I with Ken on this - if the bell is starting to toll for Sharepoint, what alternatives are being used? I've never liked Sharepoint, it always seemed to me to be an ugly, bloated, cumbersome thing to use, so I for one won't weep if it's nearing the end of its life, but there must be some

Re: [OT] Cable IP address

It's been a long time since I've been on Cable, but from memory this is correct. You can (or used to be able to) pay a smidge extra for a static IP though. On 28 October 2015 at 16:11, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I had a Telstra cable modem installed this morning, but I

Re: [OT] New laptop

I recently bought an Alienware 15 with Win 8.1 Pro pre-installed. It upgraded to Win 10 without a hitch and has been working perfectly ever since. It's even faster than it was under 8.1, which seems like a distant memory now. On 25 August 2015 at 20:01, Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

I use an Aeron char. No complaints, can sit in it all day. I'm a tad on the larger side so I bought a size C. For most I'd recommend a size B. They're great though, good investment. On 30 July 2015 at 12:53, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: My favourite is laying down. Asleep is

Amusing story

Guys Not really a .net specific post, but I thought I'd share anyway. I'm working on a database at the moment that is used to record heart rates and other biometric data in high intensity exercise scenarios. We're working with an offshore company, creating what is essentially a copy of part of

Re: Azure and security trust

It may not be the state of play right now, but I suspect that in the not too distant future, it will be *compulsory* to store data in Azure, AWS or their like, because of the reasons that Greg L mentions above. They'll simply be able to do a better job at securing the data than overworked in-house

Re: Azure and security trust

Sorry, to clarify - when I say compulsory I mean that clients will most likely demand it, not compulsory from a legal standpoint :) On 25 February 2015 at 20:18, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: It may not be the state of play right now, but I suspect that in the not too distant future

Re: Generating a CRUD UI

I've been using Codesmith Generator for years. Its fast and simple, and can do pretty much anything you care to throw at it. On 6 November 2014 11:28, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I have a SQL Server Express 2008 database with about 20 tables with neat relationships and I'd like to

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

I use a CODE keyboard (Cherry MX green) and absolutely love it.It's got the numeric keypad, backlight etc. . This will be a keyboard for life. I also have a wireless mechanical keyboard but it was forever draining batteries. I have (wired) mechanical keyboards on every computer in my house (I

Re: PDF and .doc generators for websites

I've been using ABCPDF for years in a Webforms environment. It's worked very well, it's fast and does everything we need it to do. On 22 October 2014 13:43, Greg Low (低格雷格) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Folks, Anyone got strong opinions on particular PDF and .doc generators for use with MVC

Re: [OT] Password hash cracking

Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all your passwords for you. I've been using it for years and I swear by it. I have hundreds of passwords stored in it's files and they're all long and very complex. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ On 22 March 2014 16:08,

Re: [OT] Password hash cracking

, Western Australia *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Monday, March 24, 2014 8:08 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Password hash cracking Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all

Re: visual studio online

They'll need a Microsoft ID at a minimum. Not sure about the other ... On 18 March 2014 14:37, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has added a project manager to tfs online? I just want to add a program owner to the project so they can get some

Re: [OT] FTP diagnosis

I gave up on IIS FTP ages ago. Gazillions of settings in unpredictable places make it a security nightmare apart from anything else. Suggest you use FileZilla server. It's quick and easy to install and use. On 12 March 2014 15:48, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Didn't we go through all of

Re: Favicons

Wow. That is amazing. Thanks for the link! On 27 February 2014 19:02, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) andrew.coa...@microsoft.com wrote: There's always http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/IconEditor/Default.html as well - online icon editor/creator. Cheers Andrew Coates, ME,

Re: Migrating TFS

Greg and Greg : +100 to your sentiments. David Kean : does this answer your question? On 12 February 2014 16:54, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.comwrote: I do not think this was directed at me but here goes... Start rant @#$%^ing Microsoft has #$%^ed me and the community on

Re: Migrating TFS

Silverlight and deemphasizing WPF made developers very insecure. Microsoft need to take extraordinary confidence-building measures to make them feel safe and loyal again.* On 12 February 2014 21:21, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Greg and Greg : +100 to your sentiments. David Kean : does

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

I put in Steve Ballmer's classic debut album Developers, Developers, Developers. On 13 February 2014 13:17, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Works for me Yeah me too, I put in Gustav Mahler, Symphonies 1-10 boxed set, but the question was biased, because it doesn't make me feel like a

Re: Migrating TFS

. if you need help with it let me know ;) On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anthony. We're not worried about work items, just source code and history at this point, including branches. The TFS Integration Platform is beavering away as I write

Re: Migrating TFS

, and unless you are working with the latest shiny new thing they don't seem to care. On 12 February 2014 09:18, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all for the responses. Ran a test yesterday and it failed due to a one file in our project which it kept getting stuck on, trying over

Re: Migrating TFS

?) They need to speak with Greg K, I'm sure he has a few things to say about the matter. ;) On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Update : the TFS Integration tool has proven to be completely useless. It just doesn't do what it says on the tin, not in this case

Re: Migrating TFS

[mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 February 2014 3:07 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Migrating TFS Hi All Has anyone moved from on-premises TFS to visual studio online? We have a large solution, including branches, that needs to be pushed

Re: [OT] Email forwarding

+1 to AWS Route 53. Gives us everything we need, and very cheap. On 29 November 2013 13:07, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Thanks chaps for plenty of ideas to investigate. I just received a reply from IntaServe who have hosted our domain names (not DNS records) for several years, they

Re: Protecting video content

:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Monday, 25 November 2013 2:47 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Protecting video content All I'm trying to find the most optimal way of protecting video content in an asp.net app. We have

Protecting video content

All I'm trying to find the most optimal way of protecting video content in an asp.net app. We have an app that displays video from an IIS streaming media server *that is separate from our main web server*. Some of the video is publicly available, some of it is subscriber content. There are

Re: NBN Petition

: On 05/11/2013 2:10 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: I find your version of democracy very entertaining. Well the only alternative that I can see is getting people to vote on every single issue. Is that what you are advocating? I imagine that if you think about it you will find

Re: [OT] FTP client problems

Just a side-comment - maybe we're luddites here, but we use FTP all the time to get things from A to B. Every single day. I know it's old, but it's still useful. On 18 October 2013 09:46, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: You do need a higher end firewall though. I didn't want to confuse

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

I gave up on T4 in frustration a long time ago. We use CodeSmith - we find it easy to use and quick to get things done. Having read this, might look at T4 again now and see if it's improved. On 12 October 2013 18:14, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, A few years ago I wrote (or rewrote) a

MSDN mag

I got my MSDN magazine in the post today and it's all about Windows Phone. July's edition was the same. I get the whole thing about their marketing and the stiff competition in the phone market but I wonder if they realise that there are still some of us working in the database space, the asp.net

OT-ish New Microsoft CEO

You've all probably seen this but here it is anyway : https://www.facebook.com/hanselmanformsftceo

Re: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system

We have looked at this from the perspective of rolling our own. The idea was to write an ASP.NET app that provided a way for our customers to come in and log feature requests, report bugs and so forth via some interface that we would create, and have the work items logged directly into TFS. We

Re: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system

true? ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 4:00 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Options for exposing TFS to customers and/or ticketing system ** ** We have looked at this from

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Thursday, 15 August 2013 2:00 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

You really ought to try a mechanical keyboard. They are more expensive but they are solid, well built, and will last you a lifetime if you look after them. My (non-touch) typing has improved by a factor of 2, and I was pretty fast before this. Look at Armor for a wireless one or SteelSeries for a

Re: (friday off topic) Fast hardware

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

Re: IIS has no folders

...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:57 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: IIS has no folders ** ** Thanks for the responses - we thought the same, and double checked all that. Will look at it again. Will post

Re: How to diagnose WCF 'NotFound'

Ye I think this whole naked bear wrestling thing is a wonderful idea. Perhaps @ the next TechEd or CodeCamp Greg could do something like this. I for one would pay good money to see it :) On 21 September 2011 10:52, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Now I know what WCF really stands

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

To get it working on VirtualBox (assuming you had the same unexpected error that I got) you need to do this : In the settings for your virtual box, motherboard tab, make sure you have selected Enable IO APIC, then on the Processor tab, make sure Enable PAE/NX is selected. I have also read

Re: OT : Training Provider

Technical. On 16 June 2011 13:30, Dimaz Pramudya dimaz.pramu...@gmail.com wrote: Are you after the technical training or the end-user one? Sent from my Windows Phone 7

Re: Is it possible to override a class?

Damn. And here I was looking forward to a good old fashioned Silky style stoush for a Friday afternoon :) On 29 April 2011 12:52, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: Noon Silk, I've gathered you dislike Resharper from this post and previous posts. Are you using an alternative? (eg CodeRush)

Azure on Windows 7

All Just been through a bit of pain trying to install the Azure tools for VS2010 on a Windows 7 box. Posting what I found here in case anyone else needs to do this. rant The web platform installer kept failing on my machine when I tried using it (as is the recommended way) to install this

Re: Raising property changed events

Agree 100% with Stephen comments. For the amount of money and resources Microsoft must put into MSDN it is crazy that you get better, more useable results using a search engine written by their competitor, which often points to other sites like StackOverflow or ExpertsExchange rather than MSDN.

Re: IE9 RTW

Agreed. So far it looks to me like MS may finally have gotten it right. On 15 March 2011 18:52, Stephen Liedig slie...@gmail.com wrote: Dispite all the negative comments so far on this list, I think IE9 is a huge improvement on previous versions, and its fast, faster than anything out there

Re: string.Format and curly braces

Does this help? http://geekswithblogs.net/jonasb/archive/2007/03/05/108023.aspx On 3 February 2011 15:42, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Back to coding ... I diagnosed an app crash today caused by an argument to string.Format having curly braces inside it. I was doing something like

Re: Book recommendations - MVC and WCF : C#

I've used WCF - Step by Step bu John Sharp (the MS Press book) to learn WCF. Definitely worth a look for the learner. Lowy's Programming WCF Services from O'Reilly is a good reference covering the more advanced topics as well. Hope that helps! On 21 December 2010 07:51, Glen Harvy

Re: ASP.NET 101 - How to prevent double-clicking on a submit button?

We've always done it by using javascript, and disabling the button as you've described. HTH Grant On 30 July 2010 08:37, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.auwrote: __ [image: Sunshine Coast Regional Council]http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ We've got an Ajax-ified

Re: Web Permissions...

You need to allow * to all the resources required by the page. If you have a directory called CSS, you need location path=css system.web authorizationallow users=*//authorization /system.web /location or similar. HTH Grnat On 15 July 2010 16:02, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote:

Re: OT USA Based Web Hosting provider required

We use MAximum ASP. They are excellent. On 7 July 2010 09:42, PhilB philb...@connexus.net.au wrote: Can anybody recommend a good USA hosting provider that is reliable and not too expensive? Must have a good bandwidth Internet connection. TIA Phil. Phil Best Strategy Map Balanced

Re: KPI's for software developers

It is very difficult to quantify programmer performance because no 2 jobs and no 2 clients are the same. More code doesn't always mean better quality code. Counting numbers of bugs is open to manipulation and a high number of bugs is not always the developers fault. As a general guide if we look

Re: [OT] HealthSMART problems

$360M makes QLD Health Payroll system debacle (which is based on SAP/Workbrain) a baby at a mere $40M, and I echo Greg's sentiments about doing it for half that price. It'll never happen but I'd love to see a post-mortem (pun intended) detailing what made this project such a catastrophe. Amongst

Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!

Interesting position. Your situation is obviously different to ours, but when we write code for clients we always hand over the source code either at the end of the job, or upon request. This is understood from the start. I can't imagine doing it any other way. On 3 June 2010 20:11, Anthony

Re: Ignoring excpetions in catch

Your example is a catch all which is bad practice. The example in the MS article catches a specific exception. This is not the same thing. There can be circumstances where you want to catch a specific exception and do nothing about it. On 1 June 2010 10:38, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com

This can't be right ...

Stumbled on this today whilst looking for something else : http://www.tfsnow.com/ Looks like a Readify site. Now take a look at the tesimonials. Surely not.

Re: Cheapest way to get VS2010 Professional?

*What is the *single* most exciting thing about it?* For me, it's the stability. I've been using it since it came out and I've not yet been able to make it crash. Previous versions would crash several times per day for me. Apart from that, the database tools are a big improvement over previous