Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Muhammad Niaz Rana
David, thanks for reply.
But point is this is one of my business requirements, let me explain.

I am working on Booking system( like on line Taxi booking),
so how user will book, just will enter his email address and enter
search criteria, we will put his information in out DB and will send him
Leed(s) info on his address.

Because right now we cant do execute the Sign up process, just come enter
email, and search criteria and do booking and use the Taxi.:)

Any idea will be appreciated.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards 
ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 Muhammad,

 If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why
 confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server.

 David

 If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:47, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
  I have to write code to validate the email, not just regex to
  validate on client side :)
  I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back with
 some
  error information.
  Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source code.?
 
 
  Thanks in advance.:)
 
  --
 
  Regards,
  Muhammad Niaz
 




-- 

Regards,
Muhammad Niaz


Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Ridland
Muhammad

Have you ever signed up to a website before? Maybe you should review a few
different website sign-up processes to get some ideas.





On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.comwrote:

 David, thanks for reply.
 But point is this is one of my business requirements, let me explain.

 I am working on Booking system( like on line Taxi booking),
 so how user will book, just will enter his email address and enter
 search criteria, we will put his information in out DB and will send him
 Leed(s) info on his address.

 Because right now we cant do execute the Sign up process, just come enter
 email, and search criteria and do booking and use the Taxi.:)

 Any idea will be appreciated.

 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards 
 ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 Muhammad,

 If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why
 confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server.

 David

 If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:47, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
  I have to write code to validate the email, not just regex to
  validate on client side :)
  I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back with
 some
  error information.
  Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source
 code.?
 
 
  Thanks in advance.:)
 
  --
 
  Regards,
  Muhammad Niaz
 




 --

 Regards,
 Muhammad Niaz




-- 

*Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital*
Managing Director
P. 0404 865 350
E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au
W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au
T. www.twitter.com/rid00z
L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland


 http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland


Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread David Richards
Muhammad,

I'm not an expert on this but I'm fairly certain the only way to
confirm an email is correct is with a confirmation email.  There's
really no other reliable way of doing it (that I know of).
Additionally, emails aren't instant.  It's entirely possible the email
will take days to get to the recipient if it gets there at all.  So
don't expect a user to be sitting part way through the signup process
waiting for an email.

As Michael said, have a look at how others a doing it.

David

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
 will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
 -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 16:13, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com wrote:
 David, thanks for reply.
 But point is this is one of my business requirements, let me explain.

 I am working on Booking system( like on line Taxi booking),
 so how user will book, just will enter his email address and enter
 search criteria, we will put his information in out DB and will send him
 Leed(s) info on his address.

 Because right now we cant do execute the Sign up process, just come enter
 email, and search criteria and do booking and use the Taxi.:)

 Any idea will be appreciated.

 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards
 ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 Muhammad,

 If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why
 confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server.

 David

 If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:47, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
          I have to write code to validate the email, not just regex to
  validate on client side :)
  I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back with
  some
  error information.
  Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source
  code.?
 
 
  Thanks in advance.:)
 
  --
 
  Regards,
  Muhammad Niaz
 




 --

 Regards,
 Muhammad Niaz



Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Muhammad Niaz Rana
Dear Michael, i know the whole process believe me :)
but this is business requirement that any person come on my Web App give
email address  search criteria do booking and get off :)

Behind the scene we will send Leeds to him  vendor(Taxi company), and
then off course when he has done final booking confirmation email.

So any idea for this scenario.?

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:

 Muhammad

 Have you ever signed up to a website before? Maybe you should review a few
 different website sign-up processes to get some ideas.





 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.comwrote:

 David, thanks for reply.
 But point is this is one of my business requirements, let me explain.

 I am working on Booking system( like on line Taxi booking),
 so how user will book, just will enter his email address and enter
 search criteria, we will put his information in out DB and will send him
 Leed(s) info on his address.

 Because right now we cant do execute the Sign up process, just come enter
 email, and search criteria and do booking and use the Taxi.:)

 Any idea will be appreciated.

 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards 
 ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 Muhammad,

 If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why
 confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server.

 David

 If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:47, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
  I have to write code to validate the email, not just regex to
  validate on client side :)
  I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back
 with some
  error information.
  Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source
 code.?
 
 
  Thanks in advance.:)
 
  --
 
  Regards,
  Muhammad Niaz
 




 --

 Regards,
 Muhammad Niaz




 --

 *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital*
 Managing Director
 P. 0404 865 350
 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au
 W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au
 T. www.twitter.com/rid00z
 L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland


  http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland




-- 

Regards,
Muhammad Niaz


RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-12 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Hi Peter,

 

Thanks but that (unfortunately), has options to “Use destination format”, “Use 
source format”, etc. but regardless, it doesn’t change custom font settings.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax 

SQL Down Under | Web:  http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of Peter Gfader
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:27 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Powerpoint pain

 

@Greg

 

Another option worth trying is:

1. Select All,

2. Copy 
3. File New Powerpoint with your favourite template

4. Paste

 

 

 

   .peter.gfader. (current mood = happy-go-lucky)

   http://blog.gfader.com

 

 

2012/4/11 Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com

Thanks Ian and all. I’ve just gone and copied (via Notepad) all the text and 
then reformatted. Seems like a really odd thing to have no simple way to do. 
(And yes, I was dealing with some really odd content formatting).

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775 tel:%281300%20775%20775 ) office | +61 419201410 
tel:%2B61%20419201410  mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913  
fax 

SQL Down Under | Web:  http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

 

From: Ian Thomas [mailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 7:28 PM
To: g...@greglow.com; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain

 

Greg

Styles don’t work the same way as you’re used to in Word. 

I think you have 2 options: one is to use the format painter, the other is 
Tools  Slide Design. But I’m using very olde PPT 2003. 

When the panel appears at right, you can click on one of the available standard 
(Design Template) formats (arranged in groups, “Used in this presentation”, 
“Recently used”, “Available for use”). This will change the currently selected 
slide, for its “styles” only. The background for the slides probably has to be 
changed independently. 

Also, available on the same panel, is a selection “Color Schemes” That may or 
may not be useful. 

I suspect that PPT 2010 is a little more flexible, but 2003 works fine for me. 
I can appreciate that PPT is a palette / canvas for some people’s incredibly 
bad taste, though. 

  _  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

  _  

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:41 PM
To: 'David Connors'; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain

 

Hi David,

 

The issue is that I can’t find anything on the toolbar that seems to do this. 
What I’m looking for is the equivalent of “styles” in MS Word ie: equivalent of 
grab a piece of text and say “Heading 1” or “Normal”, etc. 

 

I just keep thinking that if there is a Slide Master and I’m happy with it, but 
someone’s gone through and used custom fonts all over the place, that there 
would be an easy way to remove those and set the standard styling from the 
slide master back in place.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775 tel:%281300%20775%20775 ) office | +61 419201410 
tel:%2B61%20419201410  mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913  
fax 

SQL Down Under | Web:  http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

 

From: David Connors [mailto:da...@codify.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 6:21 PM
To: Greg Low; ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Powerpoint pain

 

Ctrl a + change the stuff on the tool bar? 

You can ctrl click with the format painter too iirc 

On Apr 11, 2012 5:59 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote:

Hi Folks,

 

One thing I’ve always wanted to know about PowerPoint is how you can take a 
slide with rubbish fonts, colours, etc. and say “make this look like the fonts, 
etc. in the slide master” ie: how do you “lose” the custom formatting?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

CEO and Principal Mentor

SQL Down Under

SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775 tel:%281300%20775%20775 ) office | +61 419201410 
tel:%2B61%20419201410  mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913  
fax 

Web:  http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

 

 





 

-- 

 

 

  .peter.gfader. (current mood = happy!) 

  Check this before you go live

  http://blog.gfader.com/2011/07/website-check-list-part-1-aspnet-4.html

 

 



Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Joseph Clark
I'm no expert on this either, but I'm fairly certain that this business
requirement is simply not achievable.  Due to the way mail servers operate
on the Internet, there is no way for a sender to know if an intended
recipient address is valid.

An email may go through several mail exchanges before it arrives at the one
that will ultimately deliver to the user's inbox. At any point along the
way, the email may be rejected for any variety of reasons and this
rejection may occur asynchronously.


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.comwrote:

 Dear Michael, i know the whole process believe me :)
 but this is business requirement that any person come on my Web App give
 email address  search criteria do booking and get off :)

 Behind the scene we will send Leeds to him  vendor(Taxi company), and
 then off course when he has done final booking confirmation email.

 So any idea for this scenario.?


 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.comwrote:

 Muhammad

 Have you ever signed up to a website before? Maybe you should review a
 few different website sign-up processes to get some ideas.





 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Muhammad Niaz Rana 
 forni...@gmail.comwrote:

 David, thanks for reply.
 But point is this is one of my business requirements, let me explain.

 I am working on Booking system( like on line Taxi booking),
 so how user will book, just will enter his email address and enter
 search criteria, we will put his information in out DB and will send him
 Leed(s) info on his address.

 Because right now we cant do execute the Sign up process, just come
 enter email, and search criteria and do booking and use the Taxi.:)

 Any idea will be appreciated.

 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards 
 ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 Muhammad,

 If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why
 confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server.

 David

 If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:47, Muhammad Niaz Rana forni...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
  I have to write code to validate the email, not just regex to
  validate on client side :)
  I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back
 with some
  error information.
  Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source
 code.?
 
 
  Thanks in advance.:)
 
  --
 
  Regards,
  Muhammad Niaz
 




 --

 Regards,
 Muhammad Niaz




 --

 *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital*
 Managing Director
 P. 0404 865 350
 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au
 W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au
 T. www.twitter.com/rid00z
 L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland


  http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland




 --

 Regards,
 Muhammad Niaz




Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Les Hughes

Joseph Clark wrote:
I'm no expert on this either, but I'm fairly certain that this 
business requirement is simply not achievable. Due to the way mail 
servers operate on the Internet, there is no way for a sender to know 
if an intended recipient address is valid.


An email may go through several mail exchanges before it arrives at 
the one that will ultimately deliver to the user's inbox. At any point 
along the way, the email may be rejected for any variety of reasons 
and this rejection may occur asynchronously.

Hi Muhammad,

While I share a similar view about the requirements as the other 
posters, that what you are trying to do will not be possible as a 100% 
working case.


BUT

Here are a few things you can do:

- Let's say your domain is taxionline.com: set the 'return-to' header 
variable to bou...@taxionline.com


- Have some code which retrieves the bounce@ emails, looking for the 
emails which have 550 errors + the rest of them. Note that some returns 
will be Out of Office replies and so-forth. Here is some java code 
which helps sort emails by category: 
http://javaclue.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/detect-bounced-emails-part-2.html


As others have noted, there are (at least) the following issues:
- Your email might be rejected as spam by a server somewhere between you 
and the end mail server

- When the email is dropped, you might not get any confirmation.
- Any confirmation can take a long time to come back, making the whole 
exercise pointless.

- Bounces might not be to standard, meaning you miss them.
- Classifying an innocent email as a bounce would be disastrous for any 
legitimate user of your service.
- While I don't know your business case, it seems automating this might 
be problematic in terms of how you deal with it, and something like an 
SMS/Phone confirmation (while also having inherent issues) might be 
something else to consider.


Regardless, good luck :)
--
Les Hughes
l...@datarev.com.au

P.S. For those interested, here is a good regular expression for email 
validation:


(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
)+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:
\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(
?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ 
\t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\0

31]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\
](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+
(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:
(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*|(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z
|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)
?[ \t])*)*\(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:@(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\
r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[
\t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)
?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
)*))*(?:,@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
\t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*
)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
)+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*)
*:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)?(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+
|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r
\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:
\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t
]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031
]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](
?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?
:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?
:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*\(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)|(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?
:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?
[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)*:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] 
\000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|

\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()
@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|
(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
)*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\
.\[\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?
:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[
\]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*|(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-
\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(
?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)*\(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:@(?:[^()@,;
:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ 

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Heinrich Breedt
You call that good ? :P

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:

 Joseph Clark wrote:

 I'm no expert on this either, but I'm fairly certain that this business
 requirement is simply not achievable. Due to the way mail servers operate
 on the Internet, there is no way for a sender to know if an intended
 recipient address is valid.

 An email may go through several mail exchanges before it arrives at the
 one that will ultimately deliver to the user's inbox. At any point along
 the way, the email may be rejected for any variety of reasons and this
 rejection may occur asynchronously.

 Hi Muhammad,

 While I share a similar view about the requirements as the other posters,
 that what you are trying to do will not be possible as a 100% working case.

 BUT

 Here are a few things you can do:

 - Let's say your domain is taxionline.com: set the 'return-to' header
 variable to bou...@taxionline.com

 - Have some code which retrieves the bounce@ emails, looking for the
 emails which have 550 errors + the rest of them. Note that some returns
 will be Out of Office replies and so-forth. Here is some java code which
 helps sort emails by category: http://javaclue.blogspot.com.**
 au/2009/09/detect-bounced-**emails-part-2.htmlhttp://javaclue.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/detect-bounced-emails-part-2.html

 As others have noted, there are (at least) the following issues:
 - Your email might be rejected as spam by a server somewhere between you
 and the end mail server
 - When the email is dropped, you might not get any confirmation.
 - Any confirmation can take a long time to come back, making the whole
 exercise pointless.
 - Bounces might not be to standard, meaning you miss them.
 - Classifying an innocent email as a bounce would be disastrous for any
 legitimate user of your service.
 - While I don't know your business case, it seems automating this might be
 problematic in terms of how you deal with it, and something like an
 SMS/Phone confirmation (while also having inherent issues) might be
 something else to consider.

 Regardless, good luck :)
 --
 Les Hughes
 l...@datarev.com.au

 P.S. For those interested, here is a good regular expression for email
 validation:

 (?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[**\]
 \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
 )+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[\]]**))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\**n)?[
 \t]))*(?:(?:
 \r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\]
 \000-\031]+(?:(?:(
 ?:\r\n)?[ 
 \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[**\]]))|(?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:**\r\n)?[
 \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\]
 \000-\0
 31]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])+|\Z|(?=[\[()@,;:\\.\[**
 \]]))|\[([^\[\]\r\\]|\\.)*\
 ](?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\]
 \000-\031]+
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 \t])*(?
 

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Muhammad Niaz Rana
Thanks for cooperation(s) :)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Heinrich Breedt
heinrichbre...@gmail.comwrote:

 You call that good ? :P


 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:

 Joseph Clark wrote:

 I'm no expert on this either, but I'm fairly certain that this business
 requirement is simply not achievable. Due to the way mail servers operate
 on the Internet, there is no way for a sender to know if an intended
 recipient address is valid.

 An email may go through several mail exchanges before it arrives at the
 one that will ultimately deliver to the user's inbox. At any point along
 the way, the email may be rejected for any variety of reasons and this
 rejection may occur asynchronously.

 Hi Muhammad,

 While I share a similar view about the requirements as the other posters,
 that what you are trying to do will not be possible as a 100% working case.

 BUT

 Here are a few things you can do:

 - Let's say your domain is taxionline.com: set the 'return-to' header
 variable to bou...@taxionline.com

 - Have some code which retrieves the bounce@ emails, looking for the
 emails which have 550 errors + the rest of them. Note that some returns
 will be Out of Office replies and so-forth. Here is some java code which
 helps sort emails by category: http://javaclue.blogspot.com.**
 au/2009/09/detect-bounced-**emails-part-2.htmlhttp://javaclue.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/detect-bounced-emails-part-2.html

 As others have noted, there are (at least) the following issues:
 - Your email might be rejected as spam by a server somewhere between you
 and the end mail server
 - When the email is dropped, you might not get any confirmation.
 - Any confirmation can take a long time to come back, making the whole
 exercise pointless.
 - Bounces might not be to standard, meaning you miss them.
 - Classifying an innocent email as a bounce would be disastrous for any
 legitimate user of your service.
 - While I don't know your business case, it seems automating this might
 be problematic in terms of how you deal with it, and something like an
 SMS/Phone confirmation (while also having inherent issues) might be
 something else to consider.

 Regardless, good luck :)
 --
 Les Hughes
 l...@datarev.com.au

 P.S. For those interested, here is a good regular expression for email
 validation:

 (?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[**\]
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 \\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*)(?:\.(?:(?:\r\n)?[
 \t])*(?:[^()
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 \]]))|
 (?:[^\\r\\]|\\.|(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]))*(?:(?:\r\n)?[
 \t])*))*@(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
 )*(?:[^()@,;:\\.\[\] \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[
 

Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread ifumust
Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.   

 

Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL using
LLblgen

 

Anyone have an opinion on this?

 

 

Anthony



Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread Arjang Assadi
One Word: EF Code First! and I haven't looked back ever since.
DAL is dead, Long live Entities

Regards

Arjang
On 13 April 2012 10:59, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.   *
 ***

 ** **

 Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL
 using LLblgen

 ** **

 Anyone have an opinion on this?

 ** **

 ** **

 Anthony



RE: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread ifumust
What about disconnected scenarios...

 

I currently able to serialize(using LLBLGEN) an entity(or entity collection)
from a web service and pass it to a client to be de-serialized very easily,
can EF do this without much hassle?

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Arjang Assadi
Sent: Friday, 13 April 2012 11:06 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

 

One Word: EF Code First! and I haven't looked back ever since.

DAL is dead, Long live Entities

 

Regards

 

Arjang

On 13 April 2012 10:59, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.   

 

Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL using
LLblgen

 

Anyone have an opinion on this?

 

 

Anthony

 



Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread David Richards
Try doing that on a PDA (aka smartphone). DAL is by no means dead.

David

If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
 will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
 -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama



On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:05, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote:
 One Word: EF Code First! and I haven't looked back ever since.
 DAL is dead, Long live Entities

 Regards

 Arjang
 On 13 April 2012 10:59, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.



 Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL
 using LLblgen



 Anyone have an opinion on this?





 Anthony




Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
My experiences with entity framework have been far from universally
positive. Code first I find slightly discomforting from the get-go because
of the plethora of attributes that end up on your model (especially when
used in conjunction with ASP.NET MVC... ) everything from the UI to
persistence ends up getting glued on to your model and this is somehow OK
becuase it is done with attributes?

EF keeps getting better with each release, but that is faint praise. In 4.5
they allowed pre-compilation of query expressions, which had previously
limited performance of one project I know of to about 5 concurrent users
before the CPUs melted through the case. In 4.5 they also apparently fixed
bugs like this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/682429/how-can-i-query-for-null-values-in-entity-framework

The biggest problem I've seen with EF is the performance. Have a look at
some of the queries it generates to do simple-seeming selects and then
ponder how you would go about tuning said query. At the end of the day EF
seems like a really leaky abstraction over database access. It can work if
you're constantly looking 'under the covers' at the SQL it generates, and
are prepared to constantly think about how you need to structure a
particular linq expression or API call to work with EF, but it has always
felt to me like it causes more problems than it solves.

Joseph

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote:

 One Word: EF Code First! and I haven't looked back ever since.
 DAL is dead, Long live Entities

 Regards

 Arjang
 On 13 April 2012 10:59, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.
 

 ** **

 Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL
 using LLblgen

 ** **

 Anyone have an opinion on this?

 ** **

 ** **

 Anthony





-- 

w: http://jcooney.net
t: @josephcooney


Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Barnes
I agree with what Joseph says ...yet, i need to add a but :)

I've spent close to the past 8 months writing an Enterprise Service Bus
(yeah, I must be the only one right?) from the ground up. I've got a lot of
unique constraints that I'd argue most LOB solutions haven't had to face.
Firstly, bandwidth is a huge issue given the solution I've produce has to
be deployed on some Panasonic Tough Books that are used in the middle of
Central Queenslands coal fields combined with occasionally connected 3G
capabilities.

The secondary issue is around the volumes of data that are collected, in
that if you take a Geologist on an average day and how much data they
interact with it can easily climb into the 100's of gigs all whilst living
on a combination of LAN vs 3G connections as its transport protocol.

The last is WPF... i think we can leave that one alone though ;), jokes
aside the last is also co-worker or developer maturity. I can't hire all of
you rockstars here on this list, and times have to produce a solution that
is going to range from a Junior to Principle developer skillset.

Ergo, my strategy around usage of EF resides on two things. The first is
that it's palatable to most developers in its usage from an API stand
point, despite numerous twitter outbursts and moments of quit rage boiling
over throughout, it however does solve a need in that space.

It also via code-first option provides an easy win around abstraction or
more to the point don't think persistence but it comes with a catch
(which I think Joseph is eluding to). If you use it from a RDBMS stand
point with a code-first mentality you're basically going to get schooled
just by how badly Microsoft code-generation or automated frameworks can be.
However, if you approach it from a NOSQL approach with a code-first option
you very well may stand a chance to survive.

Vis a Vi, Concordantly - EF can hold a place around how you persist data
from a UI top down strategy, that is to say if you design your data object
graphs from UI perspective you can get away with some happy wins. Whilst
also combining this with DDD/CQS/MSMQ blah blah, you can also get some wins
as well as what you're effectively doing is breaking the various return
trips to getting data based of small data snacking principles.

For large data sets however in terms of Gimme all data that has the number
0 in it, I've instead gone down the path of using a REST WCF Data Services
approach, which admittedly is still not a cheapest way to handle this kind
of thing but at the same time sending gigabytes of data to a client on a
call by call basis in my context is an overkill. I prefer to use other
transport methods to handle larger data sets (which even at times uses
FTP/WebDAV).

You can also abstract your POCO/TO/BO's etc from EF without having to
decorate them with attributes, it just is easy to just quickly use [Key]
inside the object instead of parking that via Fluent style declarations in
your DbContext classe(s)

ie I've written a small code-gen tool that basically will inspect a basic
POCO and then spit out some code that produces something like this inside
my DbContext class.

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{

// Person - Primary Key.
modelBuilder.EntityPerson()
.HasKey(p = p.PersonId);

// Person - Firstname DB rules.
modelBuilder.EntityPerson()
.Property(p = p.Firstname)
.HasColumnName(fstname)
.IsRequired()
.HasMaxLength(50);

base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}

Inside a separate project which has no EF dependencies at all (pure ye olde
C# project)

[Serializable]
public class Person : IPerson
{
public Person()
{
this.PersonId = Guid.NewGuid();
}
public string Prefix { get; set; }

#region IPerson Members
public Guid PersonId { get; set; }
public string Firstname { get; set; }
public string Lastname { get; set; }
public string Alias { get; set; }
#endregion
}

public interface IPerson
{
Guid PersonId { get; set; }
string Firstname { get; set; }
string Lastname { get; set; }
string Alias { get; set; }
}

Now, some of you are likely to groan and shake a fist or two at this
strategy but i'd rather tell a developer you are going to have to use
those fingers on the keyboard an extra 10mins or so more than tab-dot-ship
approach you're probably used to, but ...suck it up. As i'd rather have
code-gen tools that automate knuckle head typing issues than ones that
bleed into my .NET composition creating performance related issues.oh
wait... ..EF...never mind :)

So neh! :)

---
Regards,
Scott Barnes
http://www.riagenic.com


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote:

 My experiences with entity framework have 

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Ctrl+A then Ctrl+Space usually works for me (as it does in Word)

Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping 
Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113
Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • 
http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 4:34 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain

Hi Peter,

Thanks but that (unfortunately), has options to “Use destination format”, “Use 
source format”, etc. but regardless, it doesn’t change custom font settings.

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax
SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.comhttp://www.sqldownunder.com/

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]mailto:[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
 On Behalf Of Peter Gfader
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:27 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Powerpoint pain

@Greg

Another option worth trying is:
1. Select All,
2. Copy
3. File New Powerpoint with your favourite template
4. Paste



   .peter.gfader. (current mood = happy-go-lucky)
   http://blog.gfader.com


2012/4/11 Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.commailto:g...@greglow.com
Thanks Ian and all. I’ve just gone and copied (via Notepad) all the text and 
then reformatted. Seems like a really odd thing to have no simple way to do. 
(And yes, I was dealing with some really odd content formatting).

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775tel:%281300%20775%20775) office | +61 
419201410tel:%2B61%20419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 
4913tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913 fax
SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.comhttp://www.sqldownunder.com/

From: Ian Thomas [mailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 7:28 PM
To: g...@greglow.commailto:g...@greglow.com; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain

Greg
Styles don’t work the same way as you’re used to in Word.
I think you have 2 options: one is to use the format painter, the other is 
Tools  Slide Design. But I’m using very olde PPT 2003.
When the panel appears at right, you can click on one of the available standard 
(Design Template) formats (arranged in groups, “Used in this presentation”, 
“Recently used”, “Available for use”). This will change the currently selected 
slide, for its “styles” only. The background for the slides probably has to be 
changed independently.
Also, available on the same panel, is a selection “Color Schemes” That may or 
may not be useful.
I suspect that PPT 2010 is a little more flexible, but 2003 works fine for me. 
I can appreciate that PPT is a palette / canvas for some people’s incredibly 
bad taste, though.


Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia


From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]mailto:[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
 On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:41 PM
To: 'David Connors'; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Powerpoint pain

Hi David,

The issue is that I can’t find anything on the toolbar that seems to do this. 
What I’m looking for is the equivalent of “styles” in MS Word ie: equivalent of 
grab a piece of text and say “Heading 1” or “Normal”, etc.

I just keep thinking that if there is a Slide Master and I’m happy with it, but 
someone’s gone through and used custom fonts all over the place, that there 
would be an easy way to remove those and set the standard styling from the 
slide master back in place.

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775tel:%281300%20775%20775) office | +61 
419201410tel:%2B61%20419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 
4913tel:%2B61%203%208676%204913 fax
SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.comhttp://www.sqldownunder.com/

From: David Connors [mailto:da...@codify.com]mailto:[mailto:da...@codify.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 6:21 PM
To: Greg Low; ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Powerpoint pain


Ctrl a + change the stuff on the tool bar?

You can ctrl click with the format painter too iirc
On Apr 11, 2012 5:59 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) 
g...@greglow.commailto:g...@greglow.com wrote:
Hi Folks,

One thing I’ve always wanted to know about PowerPoint is how you can take a 
slide with rubbish fonts, colours, etc. and say “make this look like the fonts, 
etc. in the slide master” ie: how do you “lose” the custom formatting?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low
CEO and Principal Mentor
SQL Down Under
SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Regional Director
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