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The Doctor 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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So I bit the bullet and installed VS2015 Web Express just to kick the tires a little and see what it is all about.
First thing is to create a few default projects (with default choices in the dialogs) and to see what it produces.
Asp.Net 4.5.2 Templates:
Web Forms:
Nothing obvious changed here. Creates 346 files in 147 folders in a familiar pattern.
MVC:
Again, very familiar. 276 files and 131 folders.
Asp.Net 5 Preview Templates:
Web Application:
Wow! That is confusing: a spaghetti bowl of folders with stuff all over the place. Produces 2112 files in 514 folders. This is going to take some time... 
I know I have to get going with the new fangled stuff but, damn, what's with almost 10 times the cruft???
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Attention all planets of the Solar fedaration,
We have assumed control
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Wow! That is confusing: a spaghetti bowl of folders with stuff all over the place. Produces 2112 files in 514 folders. This is going to take some time...
And for a website that's only 3 pages no less.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm sorry, but that many files are just silly for any self-respecting application. "Hello, world!" takes that many files?
I'm glad I'm still doing process control apps in a desktop environment...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm pretty sure a large amount of the files could be safely eliminated but any project that requires that much support just to create a basic app is going to struggle to gain traction. The complexity of having to deal with all of that for a simple application is ridiculous.
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Seriously?
I use (and have been using VS 2015), but I NEVER generate MS projects. I fully expect new project = ONE file! Or at least no more than four (to include makefiles, etc.). That web application has more files and folders than I have in my personal framework that I have been building for a quarter century! Including all of the "projects" that I have built using it.
Something is wrong with that. Glad I don't use it.
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I have a docking station that is plugged through USB (USB 3.0 pro dock from Lenovo).
I do have a couple of extra displays connected there.
In order to have a taskbar in all the displays (windows 7) I have a small program that make a copy of the taskbar to appear in all the displays.
I would like to load automatically at the beginning (boot) this program only if the docking station is connected (external keyboard, mouse, displays and network are the devices that are always connected there).
Do you think this could be done without programming?
As always thank you in advance! 
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Definitely a non-coding question then  Probably... maybe... not quite sure how though. It would be quite easy to write a launcher though - just detect the number of screens and if it's more than one launch the taskbar duplicator. System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens will do the trick 
What you are using to duplicate the task bar? I tried several programs a while back but couldn't find one I'm entirely happy with. Thx
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Now I'm trying Actual Multiple Monitors which works fairly well.
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Maybe not be a lot of help for Win7, but Win 10 supports this directly. Right-click on the Task Bar, select Properties, and check "Show Task Bar on all displays"
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Yep, since Windows 8 this comes by default, but not on Windows 7.
Having two extra displays makes it almost a need.
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check out scheduled tasks. There are a LOT of options there for triggers - including system-level events - that you might be able to pull off what you want. click Start, type 'task schedule' and you're off.
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Thank you, I will check it.
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By now I'm happy with the software I'm testing, the only issue is that I don't want it to load automatically at boot because some times my laptop is not connected to the extra displays...
But thank you.
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Hi All,
I am of the age to remember the first break out of VR the Head sets that were awkwardly heavy etc. I went with some friends to Bletchly Park and National Museum of Computing or what ever they call it last Sunday and had my first go with an Oculus Rift headset. The first thing, you can't wear glasses (I do, blind without 'em) so did not have good feelings going in, the thing is it corrects for your vision I guess as I could see fine. Very,very cool  . I'm not a big gamer, but it was a little odd to see the BBC B playing Elite and then the Oculus
playing Elite Dangerous. I know oculus is not the only company in this field at the moment but if the rest can catch up it will be fight. The interface seems odd 2 USBs and a HDMI. I can see a first person shooter like Doom being generally terrifying
Also was CP down today around midday (UK) as I couldn't get on!
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Doom was scary on a monitor - spectators used to lean sideways to avoid Imp fireballs!
Now, Unreal Tournament 2004 in immersive 3D... FUN, FUN, FUN!!!
But I'm betting the Big Thing that sells a million of 'em involves Pr0n...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Big Thing [...] Pr0n
fnar, fnar!
veni bibi saltavi
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Ahh! Of course, you are back 
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Well Pr0n, yes, I think that was one of the reasons colour printing got good! but yes Unreal Tournament. What I found odd was the way I could see without my glasses!!!
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When I had LASIK a few years back, I was blown away that my doctor had a device to calculate (accurately), my prescription.
I literally sat in front of the device, and looked at a blob, that eventually focused as a full color hot air balloon. It gave me BOTH my -2.5 reading and my astigmatism. It blew my mind.
I asked the doctor how it worked, he said: Same tech that is in an autofocus camera. While you are looking at the object, the system is sending a beam of light to bounce off your eye. It sees that light, and adjusts the lenses to clean up what it sees coming out. At which point, it has a "good" reading of your prescription. Very similar to how you read a prescription from a pair of glasses.
It just blew my mind.
The doctor said when he goes to areas that cannot speak english, or with people who cannot understand the old (is this better, or this)... They use this device, get the reading, and it is good enough to get them seeing again...
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Wow!
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