When is software good enough? (was Re: Motivation of software professionals) Oh boy, that reply of mine stirred things up a bit. Nevertheless I'm going to stick my head over the parapet again! Excuse me not replying to someone in particular. The context was where I suggested that the guys who wrote code with the Y2k bug may have been justified. I've been surprised by how many of y... 14 Feb 2010 15:11
Non-Unicode strings in VB.NET? I've been reading the MSDN documentation on the System.Char and System.String types and they mention Unicode throughout without even mentioning non-Unicode versions. How do I get a gool 'ol one-byte char and non-Unicode string in .NET? Thanks, Alain ... 13 Feb 2010 19:26
Which textarea (text editor) control is most manageable? I have no experience with selecting embedded text editors (textarea replacements) for ASP.NET Web Forms so I hope we can generate a series of comments regarding the selection of which text editor has proven to be most usable from a developer's perspective as well as a user's perspective? ... 12 Feb 2010 16:52
GDI Hallo, I have a small (hopefully) problem... I defined an user control that in the Paint overriden method does the following things: protected override void OnPaint( PaintEventArgs e ) { e.Graphics.Clear( BackColor ); e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = _SmoothingMode; ... 11 Feb 2010 12:49
Callouts in PowerPoint 2007 in previous versions you used to be able to fix the pointer and move the text box relative.. This capability has appears to have diasappeared in version 2007.. Am I alone in finding the lack of this very useful feature a backward step or am I missin something? ... 11 Feb 2010 10:34
Conditional Formatting-1 week I have a spreadsheet and in cell B2 is the date the project was created i.e Feb/10/2010. I then have a column of blank cells that require a date entry. I need a formula to turn the range of blank cells red if no date has been entered after 7 days from the creation date. Any advise?? ... 11 Feb 2010 02:51
User Account Control on Terminal Server 2008 I have a 2008R2 x64 Terminal Server and I need to allow users to run a .exe file. I keep getting the UAC warning and it wants a username and password. It is complaining about the publisher being unknown. This works for the admin account but I need it to work for normal users on this terminal server. I have ... 11 Feb 2010 15:05
"0 bytes loaded from System" Hello, I work for a company that sells .NET software and have recently been tasked with handling support issues to do with our update system, which I wrote. Since the updater is the first thing that runs when the desktop icon is clicked, I also get unrelated issues, and one that has been coming up repeatedly is ... 12 Feb 2010 16:52
Solar cells for less than 1 USD per Watt ".." <sustainable.future115(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:c94a3b90-f71d-4587-b79f-38157e455757(a)3g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... Do you know that you can find solar cells for less than 1 USD per Watt on www.roger-irrelevant.com ? Regards. Wow! dotnet solar cells too. The previous ones that I bought ... 8 Feb 2010 10:00 |