RE: SVG Editing

2024-09-17 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
What I ended up using was the Boxy SVG Editor. (Online and free) Pretty simple to use once I got my head around the terminology used in the app. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<ht

RE: SVG Editing

2024-09-11 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Thanks all for the suggestions. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_Cd

SVG Editing

2024-09-10 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Hi All, Anyone got a recommendation on a basic editor for SVG files? Or do you do that in VS or with an extension in VSCode? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com

Re: XAML images in WPF?

2024-08-01 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
XAML. It makes no difference. I'm sure I saw Mads say in a video that Visual Studio now uses XAML images everywhere ... so what's the trick or technique? *Greg K* > -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: XAML images in WPF?

2024-07-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
hniques for efficiently using XAML images everywhere, but my attention span is expiring. *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: AI [GitHub Copilot]

2024-07-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ton of the required product. When will I see that? I'm a bit disappointed so far. Oh well, back to coding with my Copilot buddy. *Greg K* On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 at 23:19, Tom Gao via ozdotnet wrote: > Hey Guys, it's been awhile since I've asked the question about the > usefulness

XAML images in WPF?

2024-07-28 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
s the icon for a menu or button as simply as possible. How can I replace this sort of thing?... < use the XAML image file somehow instead of a resource png? > Is there some coding trick I'm not aware of to *simply* use an image defined in a XAML file in my app? Cheers, *G

Customisable web app styling

2024-06-17 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
Do styles in that link override any identical ones in the previous one? I'm not sure of the cascade order or conventions. There might be better techniques I'm not aware of. Thanks, *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: Active Directory lookup

2024-05-23 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
nt not found (no mapping)* } else { *some bad error code* } If you want to authenicate an account credentials then call LoginUser <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-logonuserw>, there are lots of examples. *Greg* On Fri, 24 May 2024 at 09:06, Greg

Active Directory lookup

2024-05-23 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
d ask in here just in case some boffin has suggestions. *Greg Keogh* P.S. I just remembered that about 15 years ago I used a Win32 Interop to call LoginUser <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-logonusera> for a similar purpose, but it was for local accounts

Re: [OT] Windows Server install problems

2024-03-16 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
> > Just put the server in a vm on win11. All your problems will go away. > Okay, a consensus from such distinguished persons. I'm reconsidering my way forward -- *Greg K* > David Connors > da...@connors.com // +61 417 189 363 > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 10:1

RE: [OT] Windows Server install problems

2024-03-16 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
+1 vote for just running the Win servers in VMs on Windows 11. Works well. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=D

Re: [OT] Windows Server install problems

2024-03-16 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
at specifically runs the latest Windows servers. The price of that is worrying, and I need do the research. I've been lucky for the last 20 years because old work PCs could be rebranded as home servers without any hiccups at all -- *Greg* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscriptio

[OT] Windows Server install problems

2024-03-14 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
the same results. Am I wasting my time? Is that box incapable of running recent Windows Server editions? *Thanks, Greg* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

RE: AI

2024-02-22 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZ

RE: AI

2024-02-22 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
paragraph of writing, and find that something like the Hemmingway editor does a far superior job. In Teams, having the AI tool write a summary of what just happened in a meeting is pretty stunning. We are going to just be using these tools all day long. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL

RE: AI

2024-02-22 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
much a work in progress. It will be part of our futures. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimE

Re: CPU profiling an MS unit test

2024-02-22 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
test, but my feeble biased human brain can't find it yet. If it is possible and I can't find it, then the VS team needs to have a chat to Chat GPT and ask it how to improve discoverability. *Greg K* > In the Performance Profiler, several profiling options are available, such > as C

Re: CPU profiling an MS unit test

2024-02-20 Thread Greg Harris via ozdotnet
rpret the results with an understanding of what might be profiling artifacts versus genuine performance issues in your code. Greg Harris On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM Greg Keogh via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > It's not Friday, but I can't find any way of r

CPU profiling an MS unit test

2024-02-14 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ossible or not? If so, what's the trick? P.S. I often use the profiler for commands or GUI apps, but in that case you set breakpoint #1 and start the profiler, then at breakpoint #2 you stop it and collect the results. That doesn't work for a unit test method (so far...). *Greg* -- ozdot

Re: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-17 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ublic can't run it, which makes forcing it into the store somewhat stupid -- *Greg* > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 14:48, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> We're planning a MAUI app to be installed on company

RE: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-17 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
And even more changes from Apple: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternative-purchase-option/?utm_source=tldrwebdev Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<ht

RE: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-16 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Are you in the Apple Developer program? I’m guessing there might be a test option there. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com

Re: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-16 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
So you're all telling me that there is no "side load" feature for iPhone apps?! This is a dreadful obstacle to getting the app onto company staff phones. Luckily I have an Apple account that was recently renewed (for 150 goddamn $), but I'll have to fill-in all the store compliance documentation an

RE: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-16 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
😊 I like the lateral thinking. I wonder if it will be based on the user’s home location, or where the phone is. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht

RE: Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-16 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Interesting that there’s been a discussion going on with the EU about this. They’re insisting that Apple allow “side-loading” of apps. In response, Apple has apparently said they’re splitting their app store with one for EU, and one for the rest of the world. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low

Private Apple App distribution

2024-01-16 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ming there is a convention for "side-loading" Apple apps, what's the technique? Is anyone doing this? A few years ago we published a Xamarin app, but it was for the public and was published in both stores. This time the app's private to the company. Thanks, *Greg Keogh* -- oz

Re: Web app large uploads and downloads

2024-01-02 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
asn't originally possible). In each case it was harder than refining fissionable uranium, so I pasted the skeletons of the working commands into my "bag of tricks" text file. The Blazor bulk upload is mercifully on hold while they reconsider who should have the facility -- *Greg K* On Wed, 3 J

RE: Web app large uploads and downloads

2024-01-02 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZ

Re: Web app large uploads and downloads

2024-01-02 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
delayed or moved to somewhere else in the flow, or the desktop program will suffice. So I'm happy the issue is on-hold for now. I think this is a good example of how the web browser should never have evolved into a host for business apps. I think the web browser, HTML, HTTP, REST, css and JS

RE: Web app large uploads and downloads

2023-12-29 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Hi Greg, Are you using any Blazor frameworks? Several of them seem to have pretty good file upload components. That might give the best experience. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<ht

Web app large uploads and downloads

2023-12-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
code this, or if it's even feasible. Are there some tools, techniques or tricks I can apply? Any ideas or suggestions anyone? Thanks, *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: Conditional builds of arbitrary files

2023-12-04 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ld.ActiveConfiguration.Name; #> ... (etc) With the config value I can now <# if #> control the contents of the html file. It looks a bit strange in the VS solution tree, but so what, it works. There is one quirk ... the T4 generator does not run automatically when the configuration change

Conditional builds of arbitrary files

2023-12-04 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
is, so I *think* that a custom MSBuild Task might be the way to go. The task could be given some parameters and it would edit the files and add and remove sections based upon the configuration before the build starts. Does anyone think that's a good idea? Or maybe there's a better

Re: Blazor css overrides

2023-12-03 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
p of the food chain, then maybe it's acceptable. > I’ve never bothered going down the rabbit hole of css to be honest. > That's putting it politely. If I bothered to learn all about css then it would certainly displace other knowledge from my brain that is more valuable. *Greg* &g

Blazor css overrides

2023-11-30 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
for suggestions or links to recommended techniques for doing this sort of thing. Cheers, *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

[OT] Identifying domain details

2023-11-01 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
extracted for me to add to the case? *Consider replying to my personal email because this is not of further interest to the group.* Cheers, *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: Minimal Web API code helper package

2023-10-30 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
o generate about 1000 lines of repetitive app.mapxxx(...) calls into that partial file. *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: Minimal Web API code helper package

2023-10-18 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
omething vaguely similar myself last year, but it's time to revisit the issue and see how someone else tackled the matter. *Greg* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Minimal Web API code helper package

2023-10-18 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
rt or make partial methods. The package I saw added some magic to make coding the endpoints easier, but I can't remember exactly how. I just remember thinking "that looks handy" and now I can't find it. Any idea what it might have been? *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To

Re: AEC form

2023-09-15 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
:-) Dr Greg Low Director SQL Down Under Pty Ltd Office: 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) Mobile: +61419201410 About me: https://greglow.me From: David Connors via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:51:52 PM To: ozDotNet Cc: David Connors Subject: Re: AEC form

Re: AEC form

2023-09-15 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
It almost makes sense but there was no visible control on the form saying that. And after fixing the captcha error and resubmitting, it just worked. So the other one wasn't an error anyway. Bizarre. Regards Greg Dr Greg Low Director SQL Down Under Pty Ltd Office: 1300SQLSQL (13007

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-08 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
would continue to be crazy stuff, and should have been resolved long ago. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: David Kean

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
lpful. Apart from that, I really don’t understand why they would have deleted it. I did have one that I asked the MCT support people, instead of the MCP support people, but they made it clear, they have no clue on how to help. So that can’t be a duplicate either. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300S

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
o fix it. I know I want to, and I’m a calm person. It’s gone on way too long. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: David

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
😊 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 1:54 PM To: Dr Greg Low Cc: oz

Re: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
I'm glad I'm not the only grumpy old fart in here! -- *GK* On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 13:44, Dr Greg Low wrote: > Yep, we talk about browsers like there’s consistency there. There still > isn’t. And it’s a huge hit on productivity. I see so much lost effort > trying to align pixe

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
the code. What we as an industry have done to productivity is tragic. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: Greg Keo

RE: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: David Connors via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 1:00 PM To: ozDotNet Cc:

Re: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
start the browser, which is really irritating for non-technical clients. I'm sure there are ways around this problem, with special meta tags or similar tricks, but it's more hoops to jump through and a good example of just how crappy the web browser is for business use. -- *Greg* On Fri,

Re: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
t if you don't want a JavaScript framework what > choices do you have? .Net Maui? Flutter? > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, 12:31 pm DotNet Dude via ozdotnet, < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > >> I find it very hard to believe Blazor demand has overtaken JS. That

Re: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
have flame wars and look at pictures of cats and porn, it's barely evolved since then and it's completely inadequate for rendering business applications. Sure it can, but look at the flaming hoops and all the weird quirks you have to jump through. Web development is in a lamentable sta

Re: Blazor popularity and use

2023-09-07 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Yes several clients doing so. Will report back if they need anyone. Get Outlook for iOS From: Tom Rutter via ozdotnet Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 11:13:58 AM To: ozDotNet Cc: Tom Rutter Subject: Blazor popularity and use Is anyone her

Re: A real C++ vs C# story

2023-08-31 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
t back then. Your main choices were C/C++, VB and Java. I stand by my opinion that C++ is the most absurdly complex and idiotic language in contemporary use. Ooops! I made a judgement. *GK* > > On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 08:44, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote:

A real C++ vs C# story

2023-08-31 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
logs and the stack trace pointed us straight to the problem point. We could usually publish a fix within half an hour. So years of random C++ crashes were completely cured by a C# rewrite. *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
it be” 😊 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 11:15 AM To: oz

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
nt MYKI system, no problems. As Homer Simpsons often says, "How hard can it be?" -- *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
The ones swimming in cash seem to be the ones doing the current projects, and having them stretch out forever. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg:

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Another one though where the project has many parts, almost all of which were to be delivered at the end. The only delivered item is the now orphaned Director ID. Have we learned nothing about delivering projects in the last half century? Regards Greg Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
rate registry software product that claims to be highly configurable. There's no mention of what back-end database it uses. *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-29 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
ed impacts directly impact clearly impact economic impact financial impact *Greg K* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-28 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
Couldn't they recruit enough COBOL programmers? *Greg K* On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 16:30, mike smith via ozdotnet wrote: > Here's a non paywalled one > > > https://www.innovationaus.com/burning-12m-a-month-govt-scraps-business-register-overhaul/ > > > -- ozdotn

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-28 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
You can also read the review. It’s available online. Riveting stuff, and of course, with lots redacted because we wouldn’t want to name names. https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/review-modernising-business-registers-program-report-redacted_0.pdf Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-28 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Sadly true Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low From: David Connors via ozdotnet Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 4:08

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-28 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
didn’t go even close to meeting requirements or costs to modify. Yet, again, I’ll bet no-one is responsible and wears the cost except the public. We just can’t keep doing this. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https

RE: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

2023-08-28 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
It’s only public money, right? In the end, who is getting sacked? Who is being sued? Who is bearing direct consequences of this, apart from the public? My guess? No-one. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https

Web app deploy without Visual Studio

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
I can't access. Is there some dotnet command switch to generate some kind of "package"? Maybe there are other options I haven't stumbled on. Thanks, *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: SQL Server Performance monitoring [Update]

2023-08-03 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
o help if I can. This reminds of the 80s again on mainframes, but finding performance problems back then was reasonably straightforward because there weren't so many parts of the clockwork to examine. These days it's like trying to debug an atomic clock. *Greg K* > -- ozdotnet mailin

Re: SQL Server Performance monitoring

2023-07-30 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
rs, which leaves the suspect. I did see some SQL timeout exceptions in the service log. However, spying on the GC is a good idea anyway. I'll do a practice run to remember how it works, so when they next report a slow-down I can hop in and have a look. *Greg* On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 10:34, Davi

RE: SQL Server Performance monitoring

2023-07-30 Thread Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet
Hi Greg, The performance trace procedures in SDU Tools have duration as one of the summaries provided. Duration is a curious one though. In so many cases, it's meaningless, yet it's the one that the Microsoft tooling often worries about most. For example, if you have a query tha

SQL Server Performance monitoring

2023-07-30 Thread Greg Keogh via ozdotnet
;m in unfamiliar territory. Cheers, *Greg Keogh* -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: [OT] Assign app role in subscription

2023-05-08 Thread Greg Keogh
uld use, so I gave-up and made it an Owner role and now it works (with overkill). *Greg* [image: image.png]

[OT] Assign app role in subscription

2023-05-07 Thread Greg Keogh
Select members to offer me my app for the role, but it never appears in the list on the right. That's where I've been stuck for days now. I can't give my app the Reader role to my subscription. Are there any Azure portal boffins who know how to do this? Thanks, *Greg K*

Re: VS2022 format all files

2023-04-11 Thread Greg Keogh
braces so you don't get this: void Something() { WriteLine("I hate the blank lines around this"); } *Greg K* On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 11:18, David Kean wrote: > Both of these options can do this on a per solution, project, document > basis. > > > > > If you want to

Re: VS2022 format all files

2023-04-11 Thread Greg Keogh
porated most of its original features (vague gossip I've heard). In any case, even if it does have the global formatting that I desire, I don't want to buy it or install it -- *Greg K*

VS2022 format all files

2023-04-11 Thread Greg Keogh
ometimes haphazardly formatted back to a vanilla format acceptable to typical developers. Cheers, *Greg Keogh*

Postman help please

2023-03-23 Thread Dr Greg Low
s say multipart/form-data, and has a boundary, etc. But the body is empty. Is there some trick to getting it to log the body? That's what I'm trying to see. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldown

RE: Replacement for old PictureBox

2023-03-17 Thread Dr Greg Low
level that it was in the early 2000’s. It’s lucky we have Google and YouTube and helpful souls who describe what they’ve learned the hard way. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<ht

RE: Replacement for old PictureBox

2023-03-15 Thread Dr Greg Low
Thanks Greg. I do wonder how I’ll push it into a PDF later but I’m trying the drawing part first. Not sure what I did in a past life to end up doing this at present 😊 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https

Re: Replacement for old PictureBox

2023-03-15 Thread Greg Keogh
o GDI calls would be easy (?!). I haven't used Skia, but some friends like it in Xamarin apps. *Greg K*

RE: Replacement for old PictureBox

2023-03-15 Thread Dr Greg Low
Hi Tony, Thanks so much for the pointer to SkiaSharp. That certainly looks interesting. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low

Replacement for old PictureBox

2023-03-15 Thread Dr Greg Low
e standard .NET control and work out how to migrate the code? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<https://sqldownunder.com/> | About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low

Re: [OT] "Shrinking" IDs in SQL Server

2023-03-13 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Possibly both. Use the hash for your original table, and setup a > secondary table with hash as the key, and a zipped file as data. But you'd > need to have some provision for the inevitable collisions. > A 16 byte (128 bit) hash should be practically safe from collisions. See https://en.wik

Re: [OT] "Shrinking" IDs in SQL Server

2023-03-13 Thread Greg Keogh
ll bet it would be a miracle if all of your original strings could be roundtripped via 32 compressed characters. *Greg K*

RE: [OT] "Shrinking" IDs in SQL Server

2023-03-13 Thread Dr Greg Low
Hi Tom, So many questions about what you’re trying to do (sounds really odd), but I think the safest for you right now would be to just select the current key and the truncated value out into another table while you take a look at them. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775

Blazor update publish problems

2023-03-07 Thread Greg Keogh
have some large companies using our app and they're getting very irritated, so any advice would be most welcome. Thanks, *Greg Keogh*

Re: [OT] APNIC charges for historical resources

2023-02-28 Thread Greg Keogh
then the range apparently becomes "disabled" from any use. So you have no choice but to surrender (or just hang on to the dead C block out of spite). If it cost $15 a year to keep the range then I'd pay (it's not even worth that), but *$500* ! In any other case I would call this

RE: [OT] APNIC charges for historical resources

2023-02-28 Thread Dr Greg Low
up all the class Cs as they can. I’ll bet they did the class B and class A ones ages ago. In the end, whoever owns the routing at the upper levels gets to call the shots. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https

[OT] APNIC charges for historical resources

2023-02-28 Thread Greg Keogh
o someone, but who? The ACCC is a toothless tiger. There is a federal ombudsman, but would APNIC be on their radar? Cheers, *Greg K*

Reduced Azure console log noise

2023-01-24 Thread Greg Keogh
I've tried various combinations without success. Maybe I'm using the wrong technique. Thanks, *Greg*

Xamarin support policy - Hiding the keyboard

2023-01-05 Thread Greg Keogh
ered with a barcode scanner, so the soft keyboard is a useless distraction that covers important information. However, if you tap the edit field then the keyboard must appear. Web searches produce no trustworthy answers to try yet, just arguments and complaints. *Greg*

Re: [OT] Google font globally

2022-12-30 Thread Greg Keogh
connect statements are optional for a performance boost and I'm not sure why the link to googleapis is optional as well (it looks important). *Greg* On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 at 14:18, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks (anyone working?!) > > I've finally decided there are some nice Google web f

[OT] Google font globally

2022-12-28 Thread Greg Keogh
port can be placed in a global link'd css file. But I don't think the link href to the font can be factored out and it would have to be inserted into hundreds of pages. Are there HTML5 boffins here who know of a trick or technique to simply apply a Google font globally with minimal editing? Cheers, *Greg K*

DataDude.com.au domain name available

2022-12-07 Thread Greg Harris
Some years ago, I purchased the domain name DataDude.com.au I was thinking that I would pivot to being more of a data dude I am never going to use it, I am open to suggestions. Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <h

RE: [OT] Creating logins/users/roles/permissions in Visual Studio sqlproj projects

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Greg Low
That’s a pity. But you can, as you mention, have post deploy steps that put them in place. Ideally though, they’d still come from something like Key Vault instead of being in the scripts or in files somewhere. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile

RE: [OT] Creating logins/users/roles/permissions in Visual Studio sqlproj projects

2022-12-07 Thread Dr Greg Low
reassessing why you need the SQL logins. If it’s an app connecting to a DB, in many cases, a user-assigned managed identity would be a better option. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com<ht

Friday complaint about configuration

2022-12-01 Thread Greg Keogh
ng a gold nugget than finding the option you want. Here endeth the rant, but I could go all day if you want. *Greg K*

Re: Visual Studio 2022 cannot add existing project

2022-11-25 Thread Greg Keogh
x27;t know what fixed it. With this luck I think I'll buy a lottery ticket. *Greg*

Visual Studio 2022 cannot add existing project

2022-11-25 Thread Greg Keogh
nd slow). I know it won't work, but I do it anyway, which is a standard 21st century software development procedure. *Greg Keogh*

RE: [OT] Finding duplicate rows in Sql Server

2022-11-16 Thread Dr Greg Low
ption], SomeDate, Etc); GO SELECT * FROM #TestData; WITH OrderedRows AS ( SELECT ID, [Name], [Description], SomeDate, Etc, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY [Name], [Description], SomeDate, Etc ORDER BY ID DESC) AS CopyNumber FROM #TestData ) SELECT ID, [Name], [Descriptio

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