Comments by Brady Kelly (Top 105 by date)

I have missed nothing; I have gone through the book's exercise 4 or 5 times, and how will looking at the res folder tell me what's supposed to be there. If I recognise something in res, I don't know if it's right or wrong, and the book gives no values for any resources.

I have asked about it on the Wrox forums; I have no contact info for the author. I never said the app is void of resources. I said there are missing resources and the book mentions no resources. I'm using Android Studio and will try the clean, thanks. I never knew about that.

Ha, well done. This is also for a new job, started beginning May. This spec, due on Friday, is supposed to be my swansong intro as a capable analyst developer, not just a maintenance coder.

I've asked it in Design and Architecture if you have any answers not suitable for the "quick" section.

That's a good start for me, thanks. That's basically what I am looking for with this question, not a great exegesis on how to write a spec.

This is my dev machine. It has hundreds of apps and processes that I need, and shutting everything down and restarting as needed is entirely not feasible vs re-installing Windows; it will take days longer to figure out what is not working and why due to obscure error messages.

Like I said, I am looking for a tool to monitor processes' usage of resources over time. It is really simple and I cannot believe there is not already one.

Oh, and my OS is up to date, and I am virus free. Online and offline often shpw the same behaviour.

Thanks for the link, looks like it has some other useful stuff as well, but as I say in my OP, I can't find a way for WPM to give me per-process data, only per-counter data. I want to single out a few process I can obliterate before having to totally reinstall windows.

I quote from my OP: "I have tried WPM" (Windows Performance Monitor). It looks like a great tool, but as I explained, I can't figure out how to get it to report per progress, only total per counter for all processes together.

About 100GB

Plus one or two dependencies injected by Unity.

Yes, I did end up doing that quite some time ago, and now all I need do is plug the Pi in and remote to it from my PC. Nothing simpler than a wifi dongle.

Thanks. It's overwhelming professional opinion that MVC is really only a niche for highly specialised applications, using binary data transfer. SOAP is dead.

Think of the two devices as Alpha and Beta.

Alpha has:

a) RJ-9 port for the DSL (phone) line.
b) Wifi antennae to provide access to the internet from the DSL, to computers in range.
c) Four LAN RJ-45 ports than also provide access to the internet from the WAN.

Beta has:

a) An RJ-45 WAN port, which is expected to be connected to a WAN, or some sort of modem. It is a *source* of internet.
b) Wifi antennae to provide access to the internet from the WAN to computers in range.
c) Four LAN RJ-45 ports than also provide access to the internet from the WAN.

Thus:

a) The WAN port on 'Beta' is Ethernet`.
b) I have internet on the wifi of router 'Alpha'.
c) I have internet on the LAN ports on the 'Alpha' router.
d) My 'Beta' router is where I want a cable Ethernet LAN connection, in a separate room from the 'Alpha' router.
e) Normally to get internet on the 'Beta', one must connect it to a WAN, but I want my PC to be the WAN, so it can share the internet from 'Alpha' with 'Beta'.

Thanks. Peter's, and other, articles look like something I'll be perusing even before I finish this comment.

I have in fact followed that tutorial quite far, i.e. auto-creating a table, and persisting an object to that table, using a hand-rolled mapping file, but when I tried using the xml configuration, it could not load the named `DefaultProxyFactoryFactory` class. As soon as I switched to fluent config, I was skipping along that tutorial's happy little path again. I also find the reference documentation at the NHibernate site great reading as to what's what and how things work. Thanks.

Perfect. Thanks!

I'm asking how to group the data, using a LINQ query (to entities or objects) because I have no idea where to start. I'm currently just using a loop over a few selects and manually grouping.

Somewhat useful. I might be able to use the BACPAC approach moving to Azure as well as from.

Thanks. I guess what feel like clumsy workarounds to me are in fact really simple compared to what evil is required under the covers to keep this truly generic. It looks like using 'object' for the value, and using the generic type parameter only for type checking and casting.

No, Dave, I don't want to determine if TScalar is nullable or not. I actually want to not care if it is nullable or not, then have an 'inner' _nullableValue field for both nullable and non-nullable types of TScalar. See my update to the question.

Yes, thank you Sergey. I knew there were complications, just not exactly where; but I did use "that I'm used to in Windows 7", vs. everything possible in Windows 7. Was an attempt to get the OP to give a better explanation of what he wanted overall.

OK, sorry. We may have a difference in OS/terminology. When I add a new form in VB.NET, it already has the translucent title bar I'm used to in Windows 7. For custom resize operations the normal avenue is to handle the form's Resize events, or one of several properties relating to sizing on the form. These are basically all there are, unless you want to get down and dirty, but maybe if you enhance your question a bit, and state what you mean by "translucent" and how that differs from standard translucent, and what you need with custom resize operations.

So you seem to have a very rudimentary understanding of how Visual Studio even works. Just right-click your project in Solution Explorer, and choose Add->Windows Form.

If nothing else helps, you can try adding a post-build event to your project's build settings, that simply deletes the DLL for you after you build. This is quite an ugly solution, but then using InstallShield isn't the prettiest solution either. Do you really need it, or can't you simply copy all your build output to the target machine? Create a self extracting archive so the end user only had to double-click.

Have you even tried anything at all for yourself? It doesn't look like it, because as soon as you create a new Windows Forms Application in VB.NET, Visual Studio already adds a form for you.

Except for the Windows Phone .xaml icons, that Modern UI set has ridiculously few useful icons - only 32 .design and .svg icons together, and I can't search that library using Windows Explorer, which is much easier on the VS library, but as I said, I haven't been able to find anything I need quickly enough there.

My client will first thank me for it just working, even if it eats all the GHz, but once he's testing, I will have time to review the current modus operandi. And I'll have some pay.

WebClient, but I really have nothing else to do while waiting for it :-) This is all a permanently running background service, with a tiny little control panel to start and stop it and view its log. When I start integrating with multiple destinations, this POC code will get overhauled.

Oh, sorry, my mistake. That, the source, is an attempt at a REST service - call a URL and get XML back, and the destination is an old fashioned web service. There is only my WCF. What was I thinking, that either of these two new businesses would dare use WCF. They do both use .NET, so no excuse.

How? I'm not adding a service reference or anything. I'm just referencing a plain C# library and calling its methods. There is no generator that I can see.

Cool, thanks again. The service methods I'm calling in ProcessListings are plain old POCO methods, not MVC, so I can't generate async operations for them. Next version maybe, but everything here is so long running, I feel much safer only having one async method doing all the work synchronously.

Oooh, thanks. Yes, my version just kludges in a delay so I can read the status when it changes in the UI.

It actually calls one service to pull data from a WCF web service into the DB, then calls another service to pull data from the DB and push it to a good ol' SOAPy web service. Can you believe people are still using that old tech for brand new systems?

Thanks Richard. I already figured it out, and feel stupid it's so simple, but I'm up to my ears getting other stuff to work by yesterday, so I never tried anything myself yet. What your answer is short on, and sort of what I was looking for, is how to make ProcessListings async, returning a Task. I'll post my solution just to illustrate my code, but your's is accepted.

Wow! Thanks - I wish I could upvote and thank you more. That's exactly what I need.

If I run the 'dets' query on its own, I get 104 rows back.

Columns have exactly the order they are defined in for the table or query they are part of. Just about nothing but an ALTER TABLE can alter the order of columns in a standard relational table. The relational model only has the feature that rows are never guaranteed to be returned in any order if none is specified. The world is full of SQL with columns referred to by index.

No diffs.

It works very well, thank you, after the two small changes I made, but my big problem now is it only returns one row.

Added one example record.

This is very easy homework even for a beginner. If you can't even make a start for yourself, this is not the career for you.

The XML is directly from a project (.csproj) file.

Thanks John, this is nearly exactly what I need, but it only seems to work using your XML literal. If I try XElement.Load, or File.ReadAllText and XElement.Parse, on the real project file I want to query, I get zero results. I am checking further now.

And less than a week since I've started studying Chaos Magic again. :-) My original question is, tragically, not about programming. It's the Lounge, you know.

No. OK, I will be devoting serious time to mastering Android Studio, using my very own darling.

Haha. I'm busy using a bloody iFrame for an ajax file upload right now, to pander to the needs of IE - elephanting - 9, so I'm not scared of a little, responsible table type layout. I have often been burnt with table layouts, but only ever when the table isn't the only thing on the page. If the entire page is a table, I see nothing wrong with using table type styling.

Meh. I'd rather have only one point of failure. I was supposed to go live today and only saw this this morning. It's an inherited project.

Thanks @ChubbyNinja. Turns out it wasn't hanging, but just exiting the function, without calling onComplete; it doesn't _wait_ for any return, just checks for it. so the loading animation etc. was still showing after calling the function. Turns out I have to ditch the whole thing anyway because IE9 doesn't support FormData.

Thanks. I know just how endless google's info on this is, so I thought I'd ask here and get a more informed and opinionated response. :-)

Thanks. I am aware of the maxRequestLength setting, but the site is hosted on Azure, and I'm uncertain as to whether something like a machine.config there might have precedence.

I considered a custom exception, but I was wondering where such would fit into the HTTP pipeline and so on.

Thank you, but unfortunately - in a CP light - I found my answer on StackOverflow, as I mention above in a comment to Kornfeld.

Thanks. Googling the 'exit code' question led me to this StackOverflow answer, which is what I was actually looking for. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4197271/8741

I understand all that. My question was all about how do I exit my service process, upon a failure condition, in order to properly signal the service manager that my process has failed. If I don't have to do anything, and the manager just keeps an eye on al running services, that is sweet.

Thanks Kornfeld, interesting article, but simply knowing how to manually configure Recovery and Autostart is enough for this iteration. My question is rather motivated by wanting to know how Windows detects a failure, not how to react to the failure.

Oops, thanks, fixed that. I know how to configure what happens when it fails, just wasn't sure of what the failure entails. If it's just an unhandled exception I can simply remove my outermost handler and let Windows 'catch' the exception.

Um, a Windows Service.

JavaScript, but with possible AJAX callbacks to the server, then probably PHP.

No, my WPF noviseness excludes the Dispatcher. I'm trying to data bind the text box to a model (just a string).

Seems a sort of workable solution is to just change the FK between Ids to between the Texts. Tidier than a long check constraint.

I meant the synchronisation between the coded enum and the lookup table. To be reliable, I would have to rewrite the table from the enum every time my application starts. Hell, I'll just do it by hand for now.

Yes Mom, I know the way it should be done, but that involves keeping my code enum in sync with my DB int values, and I'm not generating the database, it's fixed, so sometimes we overlook unimportant naughtinesses.

I'm working with SQLCE in VB.NET. The language you see here is mild.

I don't want to merge. I want to make F****UP the master again, and make the current master another branch.

Sergey, I am not asking how to chart. I have a good chart library, and I have the chart I want, a straight line chart. The points are just not evenly distributed across the Y axis, because I have 1 or 2 zero Y points, all the other hundreds of Y points are all compressed at the top of the chart.

This isn't my app, it's just an app supplied as part of the materials to test a project for a Coursera course. I haven't changed anything, and I think I can get away with plain landscape everything, despite their advice to go portrait. We are marked on the project by submitting logs of test results, so if those work, I won't worry further about portrait. It's just displaying a chooser, so I think I'll get away.

Piss off!

On change of what, Hour?

Thanks, this is quite interesting, but it doesn't seem deal with radio buttons with unique index subscripts in their names, as radio buttons in a list editor do.

The code would be hard to post, but I can throw a jQuery solution together myself anyway, thanks. I just feel there should be some way to make radio buttons behave like they are supposed to.

Sandeep, you have some catching up to do. An ASP.NET MVC application doesn't have a startup/default page. It has a default route, which is set in code in the application, not in IIS.

I'm busy with your article now. It looks like a fine piece of work. If I were you, I'd include a link wherever I recommend someone reads it.

Richard, I'm trying to find out how VS knows what item templates to make available in what project types. I'll check the built-in templates, thanks, in the hope that the project template is some sort of container for a list of available item templates/wizards.

So I would first attach the vhd in Disk Manager before attempting this, I presume?

It is data driven, but I was thinking of using a CE database for this.

I'm a freelance dev without hosting that can accommodate ASP.NET/.NET Framework 4. He is a consultant with no web servers. I wont create the install if too much work, but just guide him through setting it up under straight IIS on his machine.

Quite common in SA, but I'm boarding with my mom until next week, and she doesn't have adsl. Recently most adsl packages have unlimited bandwidth though, so here's hoping for improvement at my new digs.

RTM is a big fat scary download in addition to the VS RTM download, and I am on expensive 3G bandwidth.

These things tend to grow like topsy, and I'm looking for such a tool because I'm battling to manage my already existing work. I'll have a look at Rally, thanks.

OnTime fails because even the trial requires credit card details. That is a big minus for me.

Reason for my vote of 5
Just what I needed. Just what LINQ needs in fact.

Right now I am using pure HTML divs, with classes such as "report-section", "section-title", "section-desc", but I ask the question to gather suggestions while I work on how to make the reports more templated and suitable for binding to a single DataSet.

Haha, that was the exact solution I found before you posted this.

@Keith, I've had this question languishing on StackOverflow since yesterday with no answers. One downvote and one favourite, but not even a comment in the way of any help. Looks like I'll be doing some reading on these networks' sites, but I'll be sure to share what I find, in a nice article or blog.

That link points to the same question, asked by me, on a different forum.

Yes, I'm leaning towards checking the last run time in a frequently called, guaranteed application event.

@strogg That sounds right then. I was worried that _Start would not be called often enough, but even once a day is probably good.

@Manfred R. Bihy, How would I go about configuring that?

All respect to the man's excellent work, but it would be too cool if Sacha's tool could save as something like a Visio diagram.

It was indeed the router, which wasn't on factory defaults. Once I reset it, all was working again.

The VPN connection is indeed open when I try the RDP connection, and my client connected just before giving me details, so the end point is accepting inbound connections. I have used this VPN and RDP connection many times before I had Windows 7 with no problems. I'm checking my firewall now.

It's a Bipac 7300, but the same router worked with factory defaults on my previous laptop.