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Does anyone still develop XBAP Browser Apps [Does anyone still develop XBAP Browser Apps]

m1keread — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:55:30 GMT

We are about to begin a development and have been looking into the pro's and cons of XBAP development versus Silverlight 3.0.

We do not want to know the technical differences between the two, these are plentifull if you search around. What we are interested in

is whether XBAP development/support is still ongoing. We cannot locate any roadmaps from MS on Silverlight, there also seems to be a huge web presence for Silverlight, whereas XBAP support is minimal at most. (Unless of course it does not require much web presence, as its just WPF in a browser).

We are developing an intranet LOB application, most of the posts (from 2007/2008) say go with XBAP, but feeling from whats around suggests Silverlight. We do no require any of the additional capabilities of WPF over Silverlight.

So, anyone starting a new browser development and using XBAP or is everyone on the Silverlight wagon?

Thanks

Mike

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All updates perform full postback [All updates perform full postback]

m1keread — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:40:23 GMT

Hi guys,

I just cannot get AJAX Update panel to perform as I expect.

I am in VS2008, a new ASP.NET website,

add a ScriptManager
add an UpdatePanel
Inside Update Panel, add a button

In the buttons OnClick() event, add the following

Button1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();

Problem:

Every time I press the button, I get a full postback!!!
I have tried lots of examples from the web and get full postbacks on all of them. I am using the built in webserver with VS2008

Update: Just noticed also, that for a micro second I get the "Done but with Errors on Page" flash in the status bar. I can also run demo AJAX pages from websites without fault.

Can anyone point me in a direction to investigate ? Full code to webform below.

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm3.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.WebForm3" %>

<%@ Register assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" namespace="System.Web.UI" tagprefix="asp" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<div>

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">

</asp:ScriptManager>

</div>

<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" onclick="Button1_Click" />

</ContentTemplate>

</asp:UpdatePanel>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Thanks

Mike

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RME.NET, Anyone any experience ? [RME.NET, Anyone any experience ?]

m1keread — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:55:47 GMT

Guys,

Our large(ish) project is about to kick off. The tool of choice is the IBM toolset for Business Capture and Analysis, Use Cases, Design etc.
Clear case will be used for CM control.
Visual Studio (Was 2005, hopefully now 2008) for Software Development

We are about to start a small study into using RME.NET to link the Rational Software Modellor system to Visual Studio.

Rational Software Modellor
RME.NET

I am going to push v. hard for VS2008 as our development environment.

My question is twofold.

1. Does anyone have any experience of using Rational Software Modellor with Visual Studio integration via RME.NET and if so, is it considered valuable, will it support all the richness that raw C# gives you (Attributes, Delegates, partial classes, all .NET Types etc) or does it support only basic Class Design and simple types.

2. Does anyone know if it integrates with VS2008 or whether the API's published by VS2008 to allow integration by tools of these types have changed from VS2005.

Any experience of using an "external" design tool like Rational Software Modellor with Visual Studio would be gratefully received. Especially in areas such as "does it add value to the process", "Is it a view on the code like the built in class designer", "Does it fully support all the .NET Types and constructs".

Thanks for your time

Mike Read

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Online Office 2007 Viewer [Online Office 2007 Viewer]

m1keread — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:09:13 GMT

Hi Guys,

Working for the UK MoD, we have to put up with Internet systems that are still Office 2000 and have no control over them at all. Now it seems that Microsoft are putting all their latest documents in MSDN etc as Office 2007 or XPS formats. So I cant read them (well, I cant at work anyway)

Does anyone know of an online system that will somehow allow you to view Office 2007 files (I guess they would have to be uploaded somehow) or XPS files ???

Thanks

Mike

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Yet Another Forum - Hacked [Yet Another Forum - Hacked]

m1keread — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:13 GMT

Looks like the Yet Another Forum.NET forum has been hacked.

Cant find any info as yet on this, I guess it has happened recently.

http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_forum.aspx

You can get to the support forums if you click quickly!!

Anyone know anything more about this ?

Mike

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Reset User Password in Web Site Administration Tool [Reset User Password in Web Site Administration Tool]

m1keread — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:54:21 GMT

Hi 9ers,

The title really sort of says it all, but I cannot find out how to reset a users password from within the Web Site Administration Tool.

If I go to Security - Manage Users - Edit User, all I get is make active, change email and descirption.

Any ideas ?

regards

Mike

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Obtain IP Website Server Address [Obtain IP Website Server Address]

m1keread — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:48:30 GMT

I have a rather unusual request.

I have a webservice on a server written in C# and in it, I need to obtain the IP address of the Server that is calling it.

Using

HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress

I can get the IP address of my computer that is calling the web service. But I will be calling my web service from various web sites and I only want it to be run from websites hosted in my server. So I need the IP address of the server hosting the website, not the IP address of the computer making the request to the website.

Basically, my web service is sending emails and I only want it to be callable from sites that I control. (Sites will be HTML, not necessarily ASP.NET. I have sorted out plumbing between HTML and ASP.NET Web service already).

I have also tried

HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]

But I get the same result (The IP address of my computer, not the server hosting the website that is making the call to the web service).

Hope this makes sense.

I have also tried another way around the problem, but restricting access to the webservice by IP in IIS 6. But once I had done a "Deny All", then "Grant IP of my Server". The service could not be called from my server. So if anyone knows any "oddities" with web services and Directory Security in IIS, I would be gratefull.

Many thanks for any thoughts

Mike

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Restrict Web Service Access to host only [Restrict Web Service Access to host only]

m1keread — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:21:41 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have a web service that sends emails when given the correct inputs (From, To, Subject & Body). This is callable from standard HTML code via Javascript gubbins.

We also have a number of HTML websites hosted on the same Web Server (static IP).

What I need to be able to do is restrict the access to the Web Service to just sites that are hosted on our Web Server.

My current (incorrect) code is as follows;

[WebMethod]

public void SendMail(string From, string To, string Subject, string Body)

{

try

{

string strHostName = Dns.GetHostName();

IPHostEntry ipEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(strHostName);

IPAddress[] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

string HostAddress = addr[0].ToString();

// Only send from site in our Servers

if (HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress == HostAddress)

{

MailMessage m = new MailMessage(From, To, Subject, Body);

SmtpClient Client = new SmtpClient();

Client.Send(m);

}

catch

{

// Do Nothing

}

return;

}

Excuse the poor formatting, but you get the idea.

So, I need a check so that I can check the host address of my Webserver (I know this and it can be stored in Web.config or obtained programatically).

But against this value, I need to check the host that is serving out the HTML pages. Using the

HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress

I think gives me the IP of the Client computer accessing the web page, not the Web host serving the web page.

Any ideas anyone (or any other ways of resticting access to the Web Service to only sites on our web server)

Thanks in advance

Mike

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Looking for hidden website [Looking for hidden website]

m1keread — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:36:59 GMT

Hi Niners,

I am looking to find a website written by a colleague, but he has not advertised it on Google or any other search engines.

All I know is that it is hosted from FASTHOSTS.CO.UK and it is written using ASP.NET.

Is there any way onyone knows of how I can find all of the sites hosted by a particular ISP (In this case FASTHOSTS) ? Once I have this information, I should be able to find it as I think it will be based on his name.

I have tried asking him, but he wont tell me the address :(

Any help would be gratefully received

many thanks

Mike

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Simple SQL Question (I hope) [Simple SQL Question (I hope)]

m1keread — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:13:10 GMT

Hi Niners,

I have what is probably a very simple SQL problem, but being SQL ignorant, I am having trouble working out the syntax required. any help would be gratefully received.

I have 3 tables with some example data as shown below. 2 Data tables and a cross reference table that links the data in teh data tables.

1. Individuals ( 2 columns)

ID      Name
-----------------
1       Mike
2       Alan
3       Doug

2. Firms (4 columns)

ID   CompanyName     Status     Address
-------------------------------------------
1    Microsoft       Verified    Redmond
2    BBC             Verified    London
3    Ocean Software Unverified Manchester
4    Rare            Verified    Twycross

3. Cross Reference (3 Columns)

IndividualID     FirmID    Level
-----------------------------------
1                1         1
1                3         2
2                1         2
2                1         3
3                4         2
3                4         3

So Basically

"Mike" holds 2 jobs (Levels) at 2 firms (Microsoft and Ocean S/W)
"Alan" holds 2 jobs (levels) at 1 firm (Microsoft)
"Doug" holds 2 jobs (levels) at 1 firm (Rare).

What I want is to remove the duplication from the "Alan" and "Doug" records, such that I can return a dataset as follows

Name        Firm              Address
-------------------------------------
Mike        Microsoft         Reading
Mike        Ocean             Manchester
Alan        Microsoft         Reading
Doug        Rare              Twycross

I also want to further ignore any Individuals that are working for firms with a status of "Unverified".

This is probably quite easy to do if you know how, but I dont know how. I have been playing with the SELECT DISTINCT keywords, but cannot seem to select more that one field using this method.

Any help would be very greatfully received

Thanks

Mike

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UML, Good, Bad, Indifferent [UML, Good, Bad, Indifferent]

m1keread — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:39:42 GMT

Hi Guys,

Our project has decided to adopt UML big style for a new project we are beginning. Having sat now through 3 days of UML training, I am struggling to see a benefit of this for our project.

The project will be a GUI based graphical rich application. With interactions between C# front end and Mathematical modelling on either Solaris, OpenVMS or Server 2003 (Preferred).

UML to me seems to be a huge syntactical nightmare, good for communicating design issues between people, but is it any good for actual design. A miriad of diagrams with a myriad of stereotypes, OCL etc. None of which sit exactly with the code. i.e. If a change is made to code, I guess it is not reflected in diagram.

So, my initial feeling is "Bloatware" used by Academics, but not applicable to Windows based applications.

Anyone care to discuss ?

regards

Mike

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Absolute Image Locations and Master Pages [Absolute Image Locations and Master Pages]

m1keread — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:50:13 GMT

Hi Niners,

I have an ASP.NET project with a rough layout as shown below

Default.aspx
Login.aspx
Site.master
web.config
/IMAGES/Image1.jpg
       /Image2.jpg
       /Image3.jpg ...
/Secure/SecurePage1.aspx
       /SecurePage2.aspx
       /SecurePage3.aspx
       /web.config

Loads of stuff left out, but that is the gist of it. All pages use the Master Page, There are password protected pages held within the /Secure folder.

Problem:

My master page uses HTML that includes bith <IMG> tags and Java Script that manipulates the images in the /Images folder.

I cannot get the SRC attrbiute of the <IMG> tag to give me an image that will display for both the "Default.aspx" and "SecurePage1.aspx".

My <IMG> tags look something like (Code from memory, not cut/paste)

<IMG src="/Images/image1.jpg" ... />

It seems that when I use the URI specification

<IMG src="Images/image1.jpg" ... />

The image is displayed in the Default.aspx only. But if I change it to

<IMG src="/Images/image1.jpg" ... />

the image is not displayed in the Default.aspx OR any of the pages in the Secure folder.

I read that putting the "/" at the start will set the URI to be relative to the root of the site, but I just cannot seem to get this to work.

Could anyone point me in the direction of what may be my problem please ?

kind regards

Mike.

p.s.

There are NO ASP.NET Image Server side controls, it is all basic HTML as spat out from Photoshop/GoLive. I would like this to remain if possible, with just a minor URI change for the images.

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Programatically managing Cookies (I cant seem to!) [Programatically managing Cookies (I cant seem to!)]

m1keread — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:38:40 GMT

Hi fellow Niners,

I am trying to write some code that will go to a site once, then parse some data from it and return immediately back to the site, feeding that data back in as query string. Problem is, I can not get my second read from the site to perform correctly.

I don’t think I am passing the cookie back correctly.

All written in C#, most working!

Process.

1. Post to site with a search criteria, site returns number of links to further pages

2. Get further pagenumber ID's and pass them back to site to get more data.

Main form Code

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

string address = "http://www.THESITE.com/register/MainSearch.do;";

string parameters = "Number=0&firmName=&Out=E1 ";

HTTPPost.HTTPPost1 Mike = new HTTPPost.HTTPPost1(address, parameters);

string response = Mike.Post();

Cookie cookie = Mike.Cookie;

address = "http://www.THESITE.com/register/MainSearch.do?pageNumber=2";

parameters = "";

HTTPPost.HTTPPost1 Mike2 = new HTTPPost.HTTPPost1(address, parameters);

Mike2.Cookie = cookie;

string response2 = Mike2.Post();

MessageBox.Show("Done");

}

Problem is, that my Response2 string, does not come back with the data that is returned if I goto the website normally and click on the link that matches that for “PageNumber=2”. I am guessing that though I seem to be obtaining the cookie correctly, it is not being sent back to the site in the correct manner.

Helper Class Code

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Net;

using System.IO;

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace HTTPPost

{

public class HTTPPost1

{

private string address;

private string parameters;

private Cookie cookie;

public Cookie Cookie

{

get { return cookie; }

set { cookie = value; }

}

public HTTPPost1(String Address, String Params)

{

address= Address;

parameters = Params;

cookie = null;

}

public string Post()

{

HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(address);

webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

webRequest.Method = "POST";

webRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();

if (cookie != null)

{

webRequest.CookieContainer.Add(cookie);

webRequest.Headers.Add(cookie.Name, cookie.Value);

}

byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(parameters);

Stream os = null;

try

{

webRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;

os = webRequest.GetRequestStream();

os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

}

catch (WebException ex)

{

return string.Format("FAILED: HttpPost: Request error, Message = {0}, Address = {1}, Paramaters = {2}",ex.Message,address,parameters);

}

finally

{

if (os != null)

{

os.Close();

}

try

{

HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();

cookie = webResponse.Cookies[0];

if (webResponse == null)

{

return string.Format("FAILED: Null web response, Address = {1}, Paramaters = {2}", address, parameters);

}

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream());

return sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();

}

catch (WebException ex)

{

return string.Format("FAILED: HttpPost: Response error, Message = {0}, Address = {1}, Paramaters = {2}", ex.Message, address, parameters);

}

Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Mike. (Going to bed now, too tired to code!)

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Halloween [Halloween]

m1keread — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:59:35 GMT

Seeing the C9 Guy "Pumkined" up made me think a bit about Halloween.

Last time I was in the States, we went out on Halloween and nearly everyone was dressed up, the bars put on decorations and ghoulish themes and everyone enjoyed themselves. Loved it.

Here in the UK, Halloween seems to be changing, all of the shops are now getting in on the act, selling cheap plastic scary costumes for the kids. The small kids love it, going around with parents on "Trick or Treat".

But I think there is still a hint of UK "Nastiness" around with some of the older kids. I have recently seen shops up with signs saying they will not be selling flour and eggs to under 18's due to distress caused by their use on Halloween night.

I personally have never seen any problems in UK and I hope we are heading towards the way the US appear to be doing it.

Anyone else have any opinions on this ?

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DotNetNuke, Opinions please [DotNetNuke, Opinions please]

m1keread — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:37:16 GMT

Guys,

I have done a search in forums and DNN comes up a few times, mostly related to blogging queries.

What I was wondering was, does anyone have any experience of the product and its fitness for purpose in what it is offering?

I have had a 30 minute play and it seems pretty good, now need to consolidate that time and try to understand the fundamentals.

So, DotNetNuke, good, bad, thoughts please.

Thanks in advance (Away for a week)

Mike

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Cannot download from SourceForge [Cannot download from SourceForge]

m1keread — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:01:07 GMT

I have tried over the past 12 hours to download DotNetNuke framework from Sourceforge, but currently no avail.

Link is here

Also, when I get to Sourceforge I only get the UK University of Kent Mirror, previously you got the choice of any mirror. I suppose maybe the Kent Mirror is down, I have not investigated further.

Anyone else seen problems or know how I can get to another mirror?

Thanks

Mike

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Migration of standard HTML pages to ASP.NET [Migration of standard HTML pages to ASP.NET]

m1keread — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:47:22 GMT

Hi All,

I am beginning a new project soon, where I will be expected to provide ASP.NET server side code for a client. My partner (The Web designer) will be using Adobe Photoshop to design the pages, then use ImageReady and GoLive to create his HTML/CSS etc.

What I am after is any experience / tips / advice on a way forward for me.

I am expecting to take his source files and open them in Visual Studio 2005 Pro. Then I need to add ASP.NET functionality, such as server side controls, getting data from Database etc.

My plan to begin with is to just download a basic HTML/CSS page, load it into VS2005, change one of the links / buttons to add "runat=server" to change control to server control and attempt to add some code behind to change something.

Is this realistically possible?

Any ideas/ thoughts / discussions gratefully accepted

Thanks

Mike

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Tech-ed Europe - Wot no forums [Tech-ed Europe - Wot no forums]

m1keread — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:20:02 GMT

They have just announced the members area for Tech-ed Europe, but I cannot find any forums like they had the previous years.

Anyone here going and found them ?

Were they in the US /other Tech-eds ?

Maybe Cheeseman got fed up of moderating, would be a shame.

Mike

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The most annoying website feature for me [The most annoying website feature for me]

m1keread — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:52:43 GMT

I recently posted a blog entry into the UK History Matters project (here, the box is labelled as "Keywords" and is a multi-line textbox. 50 Characters fills up about two thirds of the first line.

Rant over.

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XSLT Question [XSLT Question]

m1keread — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:42:56 GMT

Niners,

After spending an afternoon attempting to learn XSLT (Major uphill struggle). I failed to do my primary objective.

Given an XML file of

<BOOKS>
<BOOK1 Author="Mike"> </BOOK1>
<BOOK2 Author="Fred"> </BOOK2>
<BOOK3 Author="Joe"> </BOOK3>
</BOOKS>

I want to get the inner nodename parsed using XSLT, so I can get an output something like

[BOOK1]
Mike

[BOOK2]
Fred

[BOOK3]
Joe

But I could not fins any constructs that allowed be to get the name of the element i,e. <BOOK1>

Excuse if XML is not well formed, I have typed this in on a separate computer from the one with Vis Studio installed.

Thanks in advance

Mike

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What Permissions are required for individual objects [What Permissions are required for individual objects]

m1keread — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:45:00 GMT

Hi Coffee'ers

Posted this in Tech-off last week, lots of views, but no comments. Duplicating here to see if anyone here could cast any light.

Thanks

Mike

m1keread wrote:
Hi,

I understand the .NET security model and CAS etc. However, the following line fails when run from an app on a network share.

ResXResourceReader rsxr = new ResXResourceReader("items.resx");

I have given myself FileIO in the permissions, for running apps from a network drive. This works fine when running on a local C: drive.

What I really want to know is how to find out what permissions are being demanded by particular objects. I can find out by adding and removing permissions one at a time until this works, but I want to find out how to obtain this information from the documentation set. I have yet to find it.

Thanks for reading

Mike

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What Permissions are required for individual objects [What Permissions are required for individual objects]

m1keread — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:21:50 GMT

Hi,

I understand the .NET security model and CAS etc. However, the following line fails when run from an app on a network share.

ResXResourceReader rsxr = new ResXResourceReader("items.resx");

I have given myself FileIO in the permissions, for running apps from a network drive. This works fine when running on a local C: drive.

What I really want to know is how to find out what permissions are being demanded by particular objects. I can find out by adding and removing permissions one at a time until this works, but I want to find out how to obtain this information from the documentation set. I have yet to find it.

Thanks for reading

Mike

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Has Bill pulled out of Tech-Ed Europe ? [Has Bill pulled out of Tech-Ed Europe ?]

m1keread — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:29:02 GMT

I was just checking the Tech-Ed Europ site and I can no longer find any reference to Bill Gates who was doing the closing keynote.

Tech-Ed

If you search Google, it currently shows obviously a cached result from teh same page with Bill Gates Details

Google Search

Hope he has not pulled out, anyone heard any rumours (Sorry if this may have already been aired, I did search, but found nothing)

The page will look pretty light when they also remove Scoble.

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Non Administrative format of logical Partition [Non Administrative format of logical Partition]

m1keread — Thu, 18 May 2006 11:20:28 GMT

Hi All,

I have a problem and I wonder if anyone can advise. Not really Coffee House stuff I know, but there are some fine minds here (suck suck!)

I have a 1GB Logical partition on my hard disk and I wish a NON-Administrator User account to be able to Format this partition.

It seems that the only persons that can perform the partition are Administrators.

The Security on the partition has "Everyone" with "Full Control"

Does anyone know of any way that I can allow non privileged users access to format a logical partition ?

Thanks in Advance

Mike

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Arguments for C# over JAVA [Arguments for C# over JAVA]

m1keread — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:00:32 GMT

Hi guys, I need some advice please.

We are soon to begin a new project and we currently have a team of 4 looking into the toolsets that will use. The project management want full traceability from Requirements through to code via testing, use cases and class design.

They have so far considered offerings from IBM (Rational Rose or whatever it is now called) and Telelogic. (To be considered soon Borland and Microsoft Team Foundation).

The problem is that both the IBM offering and Telelogic offering do all the traceability that the requirements / analysts want, however the Dev's want C# as their language of choice and the support for C# in these tools is not good. They both have plug-ins, but appear not easy to use and slow and do not tie in with Visual Studio 2005, our preffered IDE.

Of course, now the project manager wants us (the Devs) to use JAVA as our language and none of us want this.

So, we need some arguments for C# over JAVA. This is what we have so far (Note, all the dev's are existing Delphi/C++ programmers and we have therefore ruled out VB.NET or other languages).

C# is the natural choice, as it is written by the people who design the platform that the software will run on.
C# interfaces with COM really easily (We are currently unsure how JAVA interfaces with COM objects)
JAVA User Interface is poor and looks average at best compared to that generated by native Win32
The system will be hosted on Windows XP currently and we have no current requirement to run on other OS's
The App is graphically intensive and we will want to take advantage of WPF when it is released and we do not believe that JAVA will give us this.

Ideally, I would like us to use Microsoft Team Foundation / Team System, but there is no requirements support. The only requirements interface that we know of is Caliber RM from Borland. This is what we currently use and have had lots of database corruption issues and the Requirements guys dont like it and want a better product like DOORS (From Telelogic).

So does anyone know of any products that would give us full traceability from Requirements to code or that would plug into Visual Studio Team Foundation.

We are also considering a product called Enterprise Architect as our design tool and possibly writing a bespoke interface between it and whatever the choice of Requirements / Test Management / Analysis tool turns out to be.

Sorry for the long ramble, but we just dont want to write the new system in JAVA, because we are C# fanboys and believe it to be the better solution. (But we need more arguments that gut feelings)

Thanks

Mike

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