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Okay, maybe old but I had to try it.
Try pressing ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A on your profile page.
And you should get (see) a squillion points.[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Oooo! You fell for that old one? Oh dear, we really ought to put a warning on that...just to let people know that when they next log in, their rep has been reset to zero... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Akinmade Bond wrote: Try pressing ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A b a on your profile page.
FTFY
/ravi
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Ahem![^]
Chris added it in January 2011[^], so you're quite late to the party.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Shouldn't that many reputation points be a "reptillion"?
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My avatar turned into Super Sonic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We're looking into having a Sharepoint portal hosted online. I've narrowed it down to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace. Anyone used either of these and can add their two cents?
Thanks!
Bassam
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Lack of awareness. The MS site I saw listed partners who provided this service and I wasn't impress with them. Now I have to add this among the other two.
Have you used this service from Microsoft?
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Have you used this service from Microsoft?
Kind of - I worked for MS Sharepoint group for three+ years, so I used the Online version mostly for "dogfooding" and bug fixing. MS was taking it very seriously at the time.
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From a SW perspective, I'm sure having them service it could be better than most. However, I'm not familiar with MS's hosting capabilities and that's what I would like more info on.
Thanks for the feedback though!
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I still use it for our main application and am happy with it. The only new feature that is missing is word highlighting which, for it, i have installed WordLight. I generally hate the new Help viewer system and stuck with the old one . Besides, i don't see any real reason to migrate to new .Net 4 or 4.5, simply because i have not used any feature of those packages. To be honest, our application ( A Huge SCADA software, more than 200 KLOC ) is written in WinForms not WPF, and for IPC, we use .Net remoting, though it is slow in some scenarios and i am thinking to migrate to some free alternatives. Finally cross platform execution is a must have.
Do you have any experience in this root? any thought?
Behzad
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if it ain't broke don't fix it
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Yes, it's a horrible little country with high unemployment and crazy inflation and is years behind the times. Plus the grass is always greener... 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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If you can, I'd upgrade straight to VS2012. There are lots of little improvement in newer versions (parallel stacks etc.) Also the NuGet features of 2012 are awesome. Want NUnit or log4net? Then just add the package and the references are downloaded and added to the solution. That is awesome.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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VsVim doesn't work with VS 2008. For me, it would be enough reason to migrate to a newer version.
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Yes.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Well for one thing VS2012 has better performance and lower footprint. Even if you stay with .NET2 you'll be happy to use a faster more responsive tool.
Regarding IPC, first there was remoting, then there was WCF dunno if it's any faster/slower but it's more flexible and the preferred serialization to use with it (DataContract) is much more flexible / less constraining than remoting.
Now WCF is quite good I think, but arguably its configuration often quickly become terrible. Some people prefer OSS Servicestack for that reason. Though I think they dismiss WCF a little too quickly IMHO.
Eventually you can progressively give a go to new technology such as LINQ, parallel async library. they do make life easier when you use them!
Also I will encourage you to use WPF and MVVM for new UI. You'll be surprise how much cleaner and easier to maintain things become with it (once you get the hang of it! ^^)
Finally don't rewrite existing things which works for no reason, use new tech for new things! 
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Because of time constraints and lack of developer experience with WPF, we stuck with WinForms, though we may eventually use it in future releases.
Regarding Linq, our application is not such a database-centric one. Usually SCADA/Industrial softwares need to combat large amount of data in realtime so almost, everytime, using RDBMS is useless. At the en we developed an in-house method for storing/retrieving data into/from file.
And for P.A. library, i have no idea. Any guide?
Finally, we are at the stage of improving performance/stability and our application is almost feature-complete, So using any new technology should be with great care 
Behzad
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Behzad Sedighzadeh wrote: Regarding Linq, our application is not such a database-centric one.
Linq does more than just databases, it also works with .NET collections like Lists (really, anything that implements IEnumerable).
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Yeah, I know what the LINQ does, But , for me, some helper methods can do what the LINQ library is doing. You know what i wanna say...
Behzad
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Well that's really all it is, a bunch of helper methods. Why write it from scratch if someone else has already done it and tested it? (Of course, I understand it not being worth upgrading for just that, especially if you aren't manipulating collections much.)
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