Re: [NF] Apple Leads The Industry In Customer Satisfaction

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Bourke
This guy would disagree: http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/08/18/apple.walk.of.shame/ -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again ___ Post

[NF] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Installation

2006-08-21 Thread Roderick Pagdanganan
Hello People, Basic question. I installed the Express Editions of C# and SQL Server 2005 several months ago and have used it to learn .NET. Now I plan to get Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Do I have to uninstall the express editions first before I install the professional? Does it make sense

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin Cully
I'll tell the keyboard to keep it down next time. :P My fingers were typing as fast as their little fat selves could carry them! (I'm still tuning where to place the microphone. Perhaps extending over the keyboard was a bad idea. g) Kevin Cully CULLY Technologies, LLC Sponsor of Fox

Veryfy and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen)
Foxers, I have an SQLSERVER script that creates a function in the database. This script is correct and ready to be used. But how can I, using a VFP application, verify if this function isn´t already created and then run the script ? -- Aílsom F. Heringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype:

Verify and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen)
Foxers, I have an SQLSERVER script that creates a function in the database. This script is correct and ready to be used. But how can I, using a VFP application, verify if this function isn´t already created and then run the script ? -- Aílsom F. Heringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype:

RE: Veryfy and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen the Cook
Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen) wrote: Foxers, I have an SQLSERVER script that creates a function in the database. This script is correct and ready to be used. But how can I, using a VFP application, verify if this function isn´t already created and then run the script ? You will have to

RE: [NF] Visual Studio 2005 Professional Installation

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen the Cook
Roderick Pagdanganan wrote: Hello People, Basic question. I installed the Express Editions of C# and SQL Server 2005 several months ago and have used it to learn .NET. Now I plan to get Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Do I have to uninstall the express editions first before I install the

RE: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen the Cook
Ed Leafe wrote: On Aug 20, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote: Personally I think that showing users an interface they can take ownership of is worthy of showing. Users and the Command window never were really a good mix. IMHO Well, IMHO, the demonstration wasn't aimed at

RE: Verify and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread Dave Bernard
You'll need something like this ahead of creating the function: if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[MyFunction]') and xtype in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF')) drop function [dbo].[MyFunction] GO ...add function here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Veryfy and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen)
Stephen, I decided to take look into the table SYSOBJECTS. All tables, procedures, functions, ..., has a line in this table, so if there is no line for the function i need, I can run the script. Ailsom Stephen the Cook escreveu: Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen) wrote: Foxers, I have an

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin Cully
Stephen the Cook wrote: I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. I don't feel desperate. I feel empowered. If I like a technology, a screencast is a great way to demonstrate that technology and get the word out. That's what I was trying to do. Personally I think that

Re: [NF] Apple Leads The Industry In Customer Satisfaction

2006-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 8/21/06, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy would disagree: Well, sure. I've never had a discussion about Which brand of should I buy when someone couldn't come up with an anecdotal story of their sister's ex-boyfriend's former lovers uncles cousin who had something bad

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 8/21/06, Kevin Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: INTRODUCTION: * How to use VSS Now, there's an idea! You loved the book, now see the movie! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

[NF] Virtual PC disk problems

2006-08-21 Thread Andy Davies
Hi, I have just installed open office on my virtual PC (XP pro) - this has taken the 'dynamically expanding' virtual disk to about 97% full and I am getting all the usual problems associated with a full 'real' disk. According to Virtual PC Help virtual disk files on a FAT32 drive are limited to

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread MB Software Solutions
Ed Leafe wrote: On Aug 20, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote: Personally I think that showing users an interface they can take ownership of is worthy of showing. Users and the Command window never were really a good mix. IMHO Well, IMHO, the demonstration wasn't aimed at

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Ed Leafe
On Aug 21, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote: Well Ed thanks for editing my reply. Seems that Alan was going to show this to his customers. Unless he is the VFP Consultants Consultant, the command window is the wrong interface. Funny; my version of the screencast shows him

[NF]: Saying yes, no or maybe to stored procedures

2006-08-21 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Accidentally sent OT Here's an easier url too: *http://tinyurl.com/kjbr6 * MB Software Solutions wrote: We were just speaking about this recently, and I thought this article was worth passing on!!! From the VFUG.Org List Server: Saying yes, no or maybe to stored procedures:

[OT] joke

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
Dear Mrs. Bates, Over the past six months, your husband, Mr. George Bates, has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this type of behavior and have considered banning your entire family from shopping in any of our stores. We have documented all these incidents with our

RE: [NF] Virtual PC disk problems

2006-08-21 Thread Tracy Pearson
Andy, How big of a drive does the Virtual PC report the drive is? How big of a drive does the Virtual Disk Wizard report the drive being? Most of the setups I've done, I've actually limited the drive to 4gig. Tracy -Original Message- From: Andy Davies Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006

RE: Veryfy and create an Sqlserver function ???

2006-08-21 Thread stephen . russell
From: Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, August 21, 2006 5:42 am To: profox@leafe.com Stephen, I decided to take look into the table SYSOBJECTS. All tables, procedures, functions, ..., has a line in this table, so if there is no line for the function i need, I

RE: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread stephen . russell
Original Message Subject: Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch From: Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, August 21, 2006 6:23 am To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com On Aug 21, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote: Well Ed thanks for editing my reply. Seems

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Bourke
I've been learning ASP.NET 2.0 and I have to say the free MS training screencasts on http://www.asp.net were invaluable. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free ___ Post

Re: [NF] Apple Leads The Industry In Customer Satisfaction

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Bourke
I'm frankly astonished Dell scored that highly given their trainwreck customer service . -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

[NF] We had it easier in the early days of education

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
http://www.cagle.com/working/060818/matson.gif Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave. Suite 2518 Memphis, Tennessee 38137 1-901-684-0348 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.electracash.com The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time,

[OT] Problem Solved!

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
http://www.cagle.com/working/060820/cam.gif Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave. Suite 2518 Memphis, Tennessee 38137 1-901-684-0348 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.electracash.com The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but

Re: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin Cully
It's too bad that FoxCast.org didn't take off. It looks like Drew Speedie was a major influence with that site. It's be nice to have a site where developers could upload screencasts to. Or even to link from that site to another that is hosting the screencast. Kevin Cully CULLY

Re: [NF] Apple Leads The Industry In Customer Satisfaction

2006-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 8/21/06, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm frankly astonished Dell scored that highly given their trainwreck customer service . -- I haven't had to deal with Dell, Gateway or HP for a while. Apparently I should be grateful. Overall, I'm surprised that 1 out of 5 customers are

RE: [NF] Virtual PC disk problems

2006-08-21 Thread Andy Davies
Andy, How big of a drive does the Virtual PC report the drive is? 3.99Gb How big of a drive does the Virtual Disk Wizard report the drive being? 3.6Gb Most of the setups I've done, I've actually limited the drive to 4gig. Tracy Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

[OT] funny but they don't look Italian?

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
http://www.cagle.com/working/060818/babin.gif Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave. Suite 2518 Memphis, Tennessee 38137 1-901-684-0348 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.electracash.com The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time,

[OT] spin your day away

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
Update: The fireman in the video, Andy Bruce, has apologised and may not be fired. Come on people, it was only a joke. A Mancunian fireman climbs into a fire station dryer, packs it with clothes then goes for a spin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V-sFTRjErc Stephen Russell DBA / Developer

[OT] thought that your job sucked?

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws96yg-qEl0mode=relatedsearch= Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave. Suite 2518 Memphis, Tennessee 38137 1-901-684-0348 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.electracash.com The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at

RE: [NF] Apple Leads The Industry In Customer Satisfaction

2006-08-21 Thread Adam Buckland
Simple, they asked the CEO's who all get fabulous service from their in house IT . The CEO's said that they were satisfied with Dell so they took that to be 100% satisfaction. QED. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alan Bourke Sent: Mon 21/08/2006

[OT] Fox News might try this in the future?

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
He said there had been no complaints from viewers about the mishap, but enormous interest from media. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/21/sweden.porn.ap/index.html Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave. Suite 2518 Memphis, Tennessee 38137 1-901-684-0348

[OT] Bomb your local mosque to show the outrage!

2006-08-21 Thread Stephen Russell
An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened here yesterday in response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750477.html Stephen Russell DBA / Developer Electracash, Inc. 5100

Re: [OT] Fox News might try this in the future?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Madigan
That actually happened on my cable system years ago. Some knucklehead was watching porn at the station, and someone else switched it to go live over the system. --- Stephen Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He said there had been no complaints from viewers about the mishap, but enormous

Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread James E. Harvey
VFP 9 allows for the Trim Mode setting on a field in a report. This trims the data in the field and adds ellipsis', depending on your setting. I would like to Add ellipsis' to the field and extend the ellipsis' for the full length of the field report control on the report designer. I can do

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Kaplan
An ellipsis is a single character consisting of 3 dots arranged horizontally. A leader is multiple characters used to fill a variable space. They ain't the same thing although they look quite similar. I don't know of anyway to do that in VFP and you know how to do it in Word. IMHO it seems

RE: [NF] We had it easier in the early days of education

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Kaplan
Yeah, The Planets by Holst is already short one. HALinNY = -Original Message- = From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh = Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 10:06 = To: profox@leafe.com = Subject: Re: [NF] We had it easier in the early days

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread James E. Harvey
I meant tab leader dots, not ellipsis, sorry. It took me a while to get the Word automation to work, I just was curious if this had been done using a total vfp solution. Column One Column Two First Name... data1 Second Name Longer...

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Tracy Pearson
PadR() ?? Tracy -Original Message- From: James E. Harvey Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: RE: Append ellipsis in report column I meant tab leader dots, not ellipsis, sorry. It took me a while to get the Word automation to work, I just was curious if this had been

Re: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 8/21/06, James E. Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant tab leader dots, not ellipsis, sorry. Not easy, since you run into foxel issues, but you want to do something like: replicate(., LengthOfBox - textlength(yourtext)) + yourText Where LengthOfBox and textlength need to be calculated

Re: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
On 8/21/06, Tracy Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PadR() ?? Would probably only work on non-proportional fonts, wouldn't it? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread James E. Harvey
We're using Ariel James E. Harvey Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. www.hanoverpa.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 717-637-8931 fax: 717-637-6766 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:03 PM To:

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Tracy Pearson
True, Maybe it would be better to put the dots in an object below the text, as a proportional font. I'm sure there would be a way to position said object with a reportlistener. I didn't look at the links you just posted. Tracy -Original Message- From: Ted Roche Sent: Monday, August

RE: Append ellipsis in report column

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Kaplan
There are four ways to do this. The easiest is to used a monospace font and count characters (as Tracy suggested). The second is to fill the Column One field with ellipsis characters to the max and have column 2 overlay it without transparency. The third is to create a reference table based

RE: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Kaplan
I watched the movie and read the book ... er, thread. It's not clear to me who the target audience is supposed to be but with all due respect to Kevin, I don't see the point. As a client, why would I possible care about who ate what and when? And if I did, I think I would need a lot more

Quotation

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Kaplan
You must always explain things frankly and explicitly to your lawyer ... it is for him to embroil them afterward. - Alessandro Manzoni --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

Re: [NF] Source Control Revisited

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 8/19/06, MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Leafe set up Subversion for MBSS recently, and I haven't seen much of it yet, but I'm liking what I've seen so far. I'm liking it too: I set it up for our department last week, along with TortoiseSVN to integrate it with Explorer.

RE: Visual Foxpro : Data From Scratch

2006-08-21 Thread Rick Schummer
Actually it was Doug Carpenter who was the driving force behind FoxCast.org, and Drew was a big contributor. Doug left Visionpace a while back and the site has since become a bit under utilized. I suspect Russ would be happy to get it moving again, but we would need a champion at Visionpace to