Thursday, January 20, 2005 - Posts
A few months back, I developed a test app at office using ChartFX and VB.NET....a standard windows application....Everything was working just fine....and I wanted to demo it to my boss. Boss comes over...and I try and run the program....once....worked fine...and then made some change in the code and then tried to run it again...and well....worked again.....then i closed the solution....and opened it again after maybe 2 mins....and tadaaa......”VS.NET ate my controls from the desinger view:”...literally.....right infront of my eyes..... I saw the designer flash by and show the controls and the next moment...they were gone.... A lot of googling did not seem to help either.....and I ended up reformatting my system.
Now...all this happened right infront of my boss.....and what more would I require to prove Murphy's law “Things go wrong at the worst possible time”. all this happens after toiling hard enough all day and hoping that my boss wont find any bugs....
Whatz even more weird...all the related code for the controls in the code-behind is gone too....and the solution still compiles still fine....and on an attempt to run it...it just shows a blank screen. Its like......magic....(grrrrrr).
And now....while browsing through some blogs, I bump into a related article....on VS.NET designer issues
Cud anyone suggest some good book on database design. Preferrably one that deals with SQL Server 2000.
I need to assist converting a flat-file-system into a database. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks.
Had this on my list of things to check out for a reeeaaalllllly long time...and last nite on the flight to MN from Chicago, I saw this on the in-flight TV's relay of some tech-tv episode. Seems kinda a nice way to google out stuff. And unlike others (except Firefox), who tie you to a certain search engine, this allows you to use a bunch of search engines...(something like Firefox). I just downloaded it...and it is AWEsome so far. I am yet to figure out the parameters by which it categorizes stuff. So....I grokked my name.....and as expected.......a major search result in google was dotnetjunkies....and it grouped all of them under one category. I am still researching into it.
Well....since the product does a lot of visual rendering, it kinda tends to get slow once in a while....but is certainly visually appealing....and allows one to search information quicker from a result-set. Though I am not too sure if the slowing down is generic to my machine...coz this machine wont even load IE quick enuf.
You can download grokker here.