Entries for SEP2007

Clustering and Mirroring [Clustering and Mirroring]

SEP2007 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:43:15 GMT

I was listening to a radio station on dot net, caledl .Net Rocks.

There was a guy who wrote in an email about a problem about Clustering and Mirroring with large databases.

I sounded quite interesting.

Anyways, the guy was asking if someone from Microsoft could answer the problem / issue.

It sounds quite interesting and is in the 6th to 10th minute of the show.

It's a great radio station (I think). It's www.dotnetrocks.com

The show will be put into the archives as of this Monday, and the problem may be resolved by next weeks show, i.e. +this+ (19th Febuary) Monday.

So it would be interesting to see what happened.

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Sound Recorder [Sound Recorder]

SEP2007 — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:53:58 GMT

I've just got a microphone for the computer and have been using the sound recorder that comes with XP, but it only records 60 seconds of sound at one time.

Can anyone recommend a software package I could use to record sound for longer periods of time ?

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SEP2007 — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:44:54 GMT

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Clock [Clock]

SEP2007 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:49:14 GMT

In Vb can anyone help with how to create a form that has a clock in it. So I can use it to tell the time.

Do I need to create a thread when the form loads ?

Or is there a clock obect with a tick event that I can use ?
Is this the right approach ?

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Live Audio feed of Ocean [Live Audio feed of Ocean]

SEP2007 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:17:49 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can find a site where I can get a live audio feed of the ocean (waves) ????

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Rich Text Box Font [Rich Text Box Font]

SEP2007 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:56:07 GMT

Can anyone tell me why in VB I have to go

Me.RichTextBox1.Font = New Font("Times New Roman", 12, FontStyle.Regular)

And not

Me.RichTextBox1.Font = Font.Times New Roman

or

Me.RichTextBox1.Font = Font("Times New Roman", 12, FontStyle.Regular)

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Not Serious - Foolish, Try Catch [Not Serious - Foolish, Try Catch]

SEP2007 — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:06:50 GMT

This is my new "Try - Catch" Structure !

                '*******************************************

                        Try
                                                            '****************'
                            try code                     '    PICTURE HERE    '
                            try code                     '    OF CATCH-BLOCK '
                            try code                     '   e.g. Piping     '
                                                              '      Picture.           '
                                                              '                          '
                                                              '****************


                                                          Catch ex As Exception
                                                          Msgbox ex.Message
                                                          End Try

                '*******************************************

Maybe should be in Coffee House.

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ADO Beginner. [ADO Beginner.]

SEP2007 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:15:40 GMT

Can anyone give me some insight into ADO ?

Where its best to read up on it.

Is it just a language to manipulate Data Stuructures in a Database ?

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Error Handling in Visual Basic. [Error Handling in Visual Basic.]

SEP2007 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:09:15 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good resource or book for writing error handling code in VB.

It doesn't have to be that advanced.

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Customising the Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition [Customising the Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition]

SEP2007 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:52:48 GMT

Hi, I would like to know how to do the follow thing.

I'd like it if when I typed a procedure like

private sub sub1()
...
end sub

That the editor would type additional comment lines with the code i.e.

private sub sub1()
...
end sub

Would Go To.

' --------------------------------------------'
private sub sub1()
...
end sub
'--------------------------------------------'

Can you do this in the editor ????

Or, even if I can have a keyboard short cut like ctrl-e that would print

'--------------------------------------------'

so I could press it at the end of a "end sub" line ???

Can you do this, can anyone help me with this ????

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Languages are like. [Languages are like.]

SEP2007 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:20:55 GMT

Hello I am new the Mircosoft stuff and am learning programming after about 10 years out of IT.

I am learning VB which is ok.

But my questiion is "what languages are like what ?"

What I mean by this is VB seems to be like "putting together boxes ?" its blocky but ok. Like building "Lego?"

C# looks a little more linguistic, I haven't lookeed into it yet. A purists language.

I actually liked writting HTML years ago, it had a nice feel to it. Like knitting ?

And I'm looking at Python, it look really good, fun.

Any other suggestion on what languages are like what ?

SEP2007

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