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I try to do mine as early as possible: this year I started in August, but I've been known to start earlier. Generally, I'll know what I'm doing by late September, and aim to purchase in October.
Mostly, this is because her birthday is January 1st, so I need to plan either two good presents close together or to be comfortable on the couch for a while ...
And I'm glad I did this year: Herself's Christmas present was finally in my hand last Thursday which was cutting it fine ...
To be fair, this year I had a jeweler make a set of earrings to match her engagement ring (which she has had for about 40 years now) and that takes time - scheduling, stone selection, actual manufacturing, approval, changes, assay ... It all takes time which is out of your control, and a fair amount of that means getting the ring to the jeweler without Herself being involved or aware.
They are good though, and I think she'll like them.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We do not celebrate Christmas, but as for presents... My wife had her birthday two weeks ago... Yesterday I went to a store to look some jewelry, but found nothing... Maybe next week... 
(She got home-made cake and home-grown flowers already!)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If you want jewellery for your wife, find a manufacturing jeweler and talk to them about what you are looking for: they will either have it or be able to quote you for making it. "Non-manufacturing" stores tend to carry the same stuff and it's mostly over-priced cr@p. Good stuff is expensive ATM: the price of gold went silly at the start of the pandemic and is still way higher than it should be.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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She is more for those nice glass things (no gold or diamonds) and I was foolish to miss my brothers trip to Venice and ask him to bring me some nice Murano glass necklace... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Was he running down the road ?
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I let them buy things for me that are actually for them.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I googled and did not find much except ZedGraph component on this site.
so ask gurus here to get more help on this.
diligent hands rule....
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To be honest I ran into the same problem, and wound up purchasing a license to MindFusion's components because of it. Lots of features there, and great support, but getting going with it is a learning curve.
Real programmers use butterflies
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thank you for the honest info!![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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We use SciChart, it is quite good and easy to learn and the documentation is good.
It is not free, though, and certainly not open source.
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thank you! I mainly use it for stock charting.
diligent hands rule....
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What UI platform? Winforms? WPF? Asp.Net? Crystal Reports? :P
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it is WinForm...
diligent hands rule....
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thank you very much! the first one looks a likely fit for my case.
diligent hands rule....
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thanks for this great link!
diligent hands rule....
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I published some obscure package a few years ago... doubt anyone ever download them (though, for some reason I see 2.5k download)
Anyway, I enticed Bill Woodruff to use one of them, yeeha! 
But he had Nuget issue with my package, and while the issue turns out to be on his side, I tried to update the Nuget package.
And you know what? It is surprisingly easy to publish on nuget now. 0 extra file needed (the .csproj file is your buddy)!
Steps 1, get an API key from https://www.nuget.org/account/apikeys
Steps 2, run (command line) dotnet pack on your .csproj
Steps 3, run (command line) nuget push on the .nupkg generated in steps 2
Steps 4, profit! 
I confess I also went to my project property page and edited the following: PackageId, Authors, Version, PackageProjectUrl, Description. All item in a PropertyGroup in the .csproj.
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good to know. I have not used this yet.
diligent hands rule....
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For .NET 5 and other SDK-style project packages, yep. We publish to our DevOps artifacts.
Framework projects remain a little trickier, but still easy.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Ha.. I wouldn't know I moved past legacy framework a while ago...
Good luck to you though!
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Wow. On a personal project, I have a button click handler, simply:
onclick="window.open('sysadmin.html', '_self')
This worked fine when I was hosting app on IIS Express. When I switched over to IIS, I started getting an "ANCM In-Process Handler Load Failure". All the other pages using exactly the same code worked fine.
I changed the page name to simply "admin.html" and it worked fine!
WTF is IIS doing? Googling I can't find any info on this. And there are no rules set up on my local instance of IIS to block the request.
Yeah, I suppose I could post this in Q&A, but I'm actually more interested in a general discussion of what other hidden "gems" there are in IIS like this.
And if you still think it should be in the Q&A (though actually, the Weird & The Wonderful might be a good place!), well, withdraw some credits from my CP account for being, well, me. 
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Certified Microsoft Help Desk personnel: "You can't have a web page that is a sysadmin. Just think of the potential security problems!"
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