Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread mike smith
On 13 April 2010 10:29, David Boccabella davidboccabe...@anubis-systems.com wrote: Hey – I use MS Access to make code generators for dotNET : Its fast, easy, and can glue a lot of different data sources together. Also great for doing fast reports too. If your looking for a RAD tool to

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Arjang Assadi
LOL, 64 bit jet engine, Apple should support Cuneiform on their tablets! With all due respect to original poster, this is not meant to be having a go at anyone, please flame me if you wish, but I really have to ask. Why wouldn't anyone use a VS2010 C# front end with (Sql Server Express, ehhem

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread silky
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: LOL, 64 bit jet engine, Apple should support Cuneiform on their tablets! With all due respect to original poster, this is not meant to be having a go at anyone, please flame me if you wish, but I really have to ask.

RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Ian Thomas
True, Silky. All of the following is inherent in Bill McCarthy's 1-line post. The MS Access product still exists in 2010, and the push to use a different data backend for MS Access long preceded the popularity of a 64-bit Windows. And the 32-bit ACE driver/provider replacement for Jet has

RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Bill McCarthy
Just glad I didn't mention VBA comes in x64 as well in Office 2010 ; ) |-Original Message- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas |Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 6:26 PM |To: michaelsli...@gmail.com; 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE:

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread silky
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Funny how MS Access gets people on the high horse. Can you legitimately be annoyed at people who want to do things a way they consider best though? Right or wrong, at least they're trying; at least they are comfortable to

RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread David Boccabella
I rarely link to a JET engine when using MSAccess. If I use local tables then it is for temporary storage only. However where I find MS Access most useful is for joining together different DB Engines For example (and if I am contracting I rarely have a say over the environments) A customer

Re: FW: Dispose surprise

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Minutillo
Hi Greg, I'm no expert on silverlight but I thought that all WCF calls were async. It that is the case then it is possible you are seeing async threads being halted when the app shuts down. As this halts the execution of the thread before the end of the using block the services are never Disposed

RE: Dispose surprise

2010-04-13 Thread David Kean
Another thing, what are you doing in your finalizer (or Dispose(false))? I'd be very surprised if you ever need to define a finalizer for a class in Silverlight. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

RE: Dispose surprise

2010-04-13 Thread Greg Keogh
If so, Dispose() should be calling GC.SuppressFinalize(this) to prevent finalization. D'OH! I forgot. I've got disposable class all over the place, and for some stupid reason I forgot to SuppressFinalize in this class. The symptom is obvious now that I look at it again (I should have started

RE: Dispose surprise

2010-04-13 Thread David Kean
FxCop/Code Analysis will also tell you if you are using the Dispose pattern incorrectly. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:56 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Dispose surprise If so, Dispose() should

[OT] Vostro laptops

2010-04-13 Thread Stephen Price
Has anyone seen/used a Dell Vostro laptop? They seem to be targeted at business rather than consumers, and I was wondering how they compare to the studio laptops. I've got an M17x Alienware (they replaced my M1730 XPS when the graphics card died and they had no parts for it) which I'm happy with

RE: VS2010 is on MSDN

2010-04-13 Thread Anthony
Anyone have an URl for bizspark downloads..i have loged in but do not see any download section -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of DotNet Dude Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:20 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2010 is

Re: [OT] Vostro laptops

2010-04-13 Thread David Connors
On 14 April 2010 11:29, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Has anyone seen/used a Dell Vostro laptop? They seem to be targeted at business rather than consumers, and I was wondering how they compare to the studio laptops. My understanding is that Vostro is cheap and nasty build

RE: [OT] Vostro laptops

2010-04-13 Thread James Chapman-Smith
Hi folks, I too am interested to get feedback on this. I have a Dell XPS M1710 that is now three years old - and while it still out performs many current machines - it's getting a little long in the tooth as a development machine. I've been very happy with the support from Dell so I'm keen to

[OT] MSAccess development

2010-04-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Tiang That sounds pretty awesome. Is this a scenario where we can give non-technical users access to generate their own query reports based on data in MSSQL? Years ago, I did a lot of MS Access development and it was the most common scenario. In fact, in micro businesses the most common

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Arjang Assadi
Access is a great tool to palm off the mundane brain dead tasks to users, and non techs. It is a Data centric tool, used for massaging data, pretty much what processing organic sediments was to early worms, but without that an entire ecology of higher forms of software would have not been

RE: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread David Boccabella
Hi Tiang Yes - that is a good scenario where MS Access can be of benefit. For example - you run the report wizard. It asks the user the following 1. Table/Query to use 2. Fields on the report 3. Sorting or grouping 4. Totaling And it can then churn out a report that can be used immediately or

JetBrains TeamCity [OT] ish

2010-04-13 Thread Wallace Turner
Hi, Is anyone using TeamCity for their dev builds ? If Yes, can someone tell me it is normal to have 1)one (teamcity) project to build your application using 'sln2008' as the runner 2)another (teamcity) project to deploy the output of step 1), using 'Command Line' as the runner.

RE: VS2010 is on MSDN

2010-04-13 Thread Anthony
Thanks Craig..worked a treat :) -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2010 is on MSDN Try this link.