Spell check
Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten
RE: Spell check
We wrote our own that uses Word's dictionary to spell check fields in web forms. It wasn't difficult, if I recall correctly. Obviously, applicability depends on target audience, and it was written at the time of Word 2003 and IE 6 (though it still seems to function.) I can dig up source code if you like. It's one that we have shared before. Dylan. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 6:49 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Spell check Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten - To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's Privacy Policy at http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au . This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld).
RE: Skilling Up
I like WPF and silver light. I think they are the future. But HTML5 might introduce something else. to my knowledge, there are not many jobs for them at the moment - maybe in the future I hope. I think most programmer can learn .NET, C# easily. Since the .NET is huge, it is good to learn the most requently used first so you can get a job early and have chances to learn more. The best way I know to learn is to write applications - invent your own software or help an open source project are good ways. Good luck David From: Stephen Price [mailto:step...@littlevoices.com] Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up There's a Silverlight user group in Melbourne (and Sydney, Perth). http://sddn.org.au/ should get you some details on where they meet. There's also a couple of .Net ones but being a Perth guy I don't know anything other than maybe check http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/ . I think there's another one around too? I can see the issue with talking to your employer, if they catch wind you are changing careers you might freak em out and affect your short term relationship with them. Myself, I went and did a degree part time - Bachelor of Science (Internet Computing) at ECU, which might be something you've not considered. It took six years but helped my career change (was working full time as a developer after 2 years of starting the degree). Charles Sturt University also claim to be the best in distance education (http://www.csu.edu.au/) so might be another option, study at home online. (Which was how i did a large chunk of my degree - at home via online portals + books etc) On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Simon Kuldin sim...@prism-solutions.com.au wrote: Any particular user groups that you would recommend? As much as I would like to talk to my current employer about it, I find it very unlikely that they would be flexible. Especially considering the small size of the company. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up I agree with Mike on the point of talking to your current employer. I did this 6 years ago when I was in infrastructure, and I scored myself a whole month seconded to the dev team. They were busy in a testing phase so I basically sat there for a month teaching myself VB.Net (one of those learn VB.Net in 24 hours books. Its a lie it took me more than 24 hours). The upside was I got paid while doing it and if I got stuck with anything I could ask the developers there (which, interestingly they usually couldn't help me much with my questions as they were VB6 developers and hadn't learned .Net yet) Also user groups are essential, its essentially free training, mixed in with socialising/networking with like minded people. I also highly recommend doing a presentation at a user group, there's nothing more motivating than having to present on something. Good luck! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon, Firstly, it's probably worth talking to your current employer to see if this is something they can help you with. Sometimes this kind of sideways change can be beneficial for both parties (especially if it means that the business can hold on to a valuable resource). Personally I don't think I'd bother with a C# course or specific certification. A copy of C# in a Nutshell (or some other title of equal awesomeness) will probably teach you as much and be more useful in the future (as you can keep referring back to it). For potential employers, I'd guess that a C# certification on your CV might not be enough to get an interview. You're far better off participating in open source projects / local community groups in my opinion. As far as the technology choices to look at, I'd consider WPF/Silverlight. Admittedly I have no idea whether or not there is a ton of work out there for these (I'm stuck in WinForms land) but they both rely on XAML (slightly different versions) and so does Windows Phone 7 so you get a toe in the web, desktop and phone development camps all at once. Given you have SQL experience I'd probably look at Entity Framework 4 as well. You might end up working on a project where you don't actually touch the UI. Hope that helps and good luck with your transition! -- Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Simon Kuldin sim...@prism-solutions.com.au wrote: Good afternoon everyone, I'm looking at expanding my technical skill-set for future career opportunities. My real desire is to learn Dot Net programming (as I'm a programmer by heart). My current experience is 10+ years as a Developer/Consultant for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and I also am getting
RE: Spell check
Hi Dylan I would love to see that code if you have it handy Although it won't work for all our users as they don't all have word The application is actually VB6 - but I was planning to write a dot net object for the spell check Kirsten _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 8:57 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Spell check We wrote our own that uses Word's dictionary to spell check fields in web forms. It wasn't difficult, if I recall correctly. Obviously, applicability depends on target audience, and it was written at the time of Word 2003 and IE 6 (though it still seems to function.) I can dig up source code if you like. It's one that we have shared before. Dylan. _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 6:49 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Spell check Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ Sunshine Coast Regional Council __ __ To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=disclaimer Privacy Policy This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld). __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5782 (20110112) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Re: Spell check
More context please. For visual studio (if so, which version)? For ASP.NET(and if so, which version)? For WinForms? For WPF? For Silverlight? For Windows Mobile? Compact Framework? Does it need to run on mono? Do you need to be able to customize the dictionary? What languages does it need to support? Joseph On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote: Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
RE: Spell check
I've just taken a look, and can't find the separated out source for the spell checker any more. (It's embedded in a large suite of tools.) Actually, I don't think it would be much use to you. Looking at it, it is largely written in JavaScript to run on a web page. Dylan. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 9:47 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Spell check Hi Dylan I would love to see that code if you have it handy Although it won't work for all our users as they don't all have word The application is actually VB6 - but I was planning to write a dot net object for the spell check Kirsten From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 8:57 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Spell check We wrote our own that uses Word's dictionary to spell check fields in web forms. It wasn't difficult, if I recall correctly. Obviously, applicability depends on target audience, and it was written at the time of Word 2003 and IE 6 (though it still seems to function.) I can dig up source code if you like. It's one that we have shared before. Dylan. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 6:49 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Spell check Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten [https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/email_logos/logo4mailfooter.jpg]http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ __ __ To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's Privacy Policyhttp://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=disclaimer This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld). __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5782 (20110112) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com - To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's Privacy Policy at http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au . This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld).
Re: Spell check
I've used Keyoti Rapid Spell checker but only with WinForms (http://keyoti.com http://keyoti.com/). It also has versions for WPF and ASP.NET (also Java if your that way inclined). Allows spell checking of standard controls and also a number of vendor UI control sets. Its the only cross vendor spell checker that I am aware of. Lots of UI control vendors have their own spell checker. Supports various main dictionaries, free are English: Australian, Canadian, US and UK (includes user dictionary support). If you want other dictionaries such as Medical, Czech, French, German etc, these cost extra. For a single developer: WinForms; US$339, For ASP.NET; US$250, For WPF US$339. When I was using it, support was good and fairly quick. There is a free trial available. Regards Peter On 13/01/2011 4:48 AM, Kirsten Greed wrote: Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten
Re: Spell check
I have just noticed that in learning WPF, that the TextBox an RichTextBox have out of the box spell checking. Not sure if this is of any use to you but if it is, check out http://www.wpftutorial.net/TextBox.html Have not used this (found it by chance) so cannot say how good it is. Regards Peter. On 13/01/2011 4:48 AM, Kirsten Greed wrote: Hi All Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in Thanks Kirsten
RE: Skilling Up
Thanks David, I am creating a Virtual Image right now to start toying around with Silverlight again. I usually struggle to think of ideas to do sample projects myself, but for the moment I have some ideas that can link with what I do at work. Simon Kuldin | Senior Technical Consultant | PRISM Suite 3, 214 Bay St Brighton, VIC 3186, Australia P: +61 3 9596 8633 M: 0408 310 957 W: www.prism-solutions.com.au http://www.prism-solutions.com.au/ prism-v5.jpg People. Responsive. Innovative. Simple. Methodical. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Pung Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:01 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Skilling Up I like WPF and silver light. I think they are the future. But HTML5 might introduce something else. to my knowledge, there are not many jobs for them at the moment - maybe in the future I hope. I think most programmer can learn .NET, C# easily. Since the .NET is huge, it is good to learn the most requently used first so you can get a job early and have chances to learn more. The best way I know to learn is to write applications - invent your own software or help an open source project are good ways. Good luck David From: Stephen Price [mailto:step...@littlevoices.com] Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up There's a Silverlight user group in Melbourne (and Sydney, Perth). http://sddn.org.au/ should get you some details on where they meet. There's also a couple of .Net ones but being a Perth guy I don't know anything other than maybe check http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/ . I think there's another one around too? I can see the issue with talking to your employer, if they catch wind you are changing careers you might freak em out and affect your short term relationship with them. Myself, I went and did a degree part time - Bachelor of Science (Internet Computing) at ECU, which might be something you've not considered. It took six years but helped my career change (was working full time as a developer after 2 years of starting the degree). Charles Sturt University also claim to be the best in distance education (http://www.csu.edu.au/) so might be another option, study at home online. (Which was how i did a large chunk of my degree - at home via online portals + books etc) On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Simon Kuldin sim...@prism-solutions.com.au wrote: Any particular user groups that you would recommend? As much as I would like to talk to my current employer about it, I find it very unlikely that they would be flexible. Especially considering the small size of the company. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up I agree with Mike on the point of talking to your current employer. I did this 6 years ago when I was in infrastructure, and I scored myself a whole month seconded to the dev team. They were busy in a testing phase so I basically sat there for a month teaching myself VB.Net (one of those learn VB.Net in 24 hours books. Its a lie it took me more than 24 hours). The upside was I got paid while doing it and if I got stuck with anything I could ask the developers there (which, interestingly they usually couldn't help me much with my questions as they were VB6 developers and hadn't learned .Net yet) Also user groups are essential, its essentially free training, mixed in with socialising/networking with like minded people. I also highly recommend doing a presentation at a user group, there's nothing more motivating than having to present on something. Good luck! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon, Firstly, it's probably worth talking to your current employer to see if this is something they can help you with. Sometimes this kind of sideways change can be beneficial for both parties (especially if it means that the business can hold on to a valuable resource). Personally I don't think I'd bother with a C# course or specific certification. A copy of C# in a Nutshell (or some other title of equal awesomeness) will probably teach you as much and be more useful in the future (as you can keep referring back to it). For potential employers, I'd guess that a C# certification on your CV might not be enough to get an interview. You're far better off participating in open source projects / local community groups in my opinion. As far as the technology choices to look at, I'd consider WPF/Silverlight. Admittedly I have no idea whether or not there is a ton of work out there for these (I'm stuck in WinForms land) but they both rely on XAML (slightly different versions) and so does Windows Phone 7 so you get a toe in the web, desktop and phone development
Re: Skilling Up
Any particular user groups that you would recommend? Come to MXUG next week: https://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=enpli=1 There is also datamelb tonight: http://groups.google.com/group/datamelb As for getting started; it's obvious, but just find something you want to do, and try and do it. Most of what I want to do can be done in the form of a website, hence I'm doing various things in the ASP.NET MVC framework, which I would recommend. For Windows apps yes, WPF is of interest, but I wouldn't personally dedicate much time to Silverlight (but I'm biased, as I'm headed out of programming anyway, some people find it fruitful). Like others, I can highly recommend participation in online forums/mailing lists for the purposes of learning. StackOverflow is good, but not great, in my humble opinion. But it is the better out of all the forum options. I tend to prefer lists as they allow deeper discussion. It's kind of a good time to get into .NET as there are a variety of changes in the framework that means you'll kind of be on even footing with other guys (LINQ is relatively new, etc, etc) so you can feel reasonable confident that even the longer-term programmers aren't experts in that yet, and there is still plenty of ground to discover and fun things to do. I don't personally see a lot of value in joining open source projects, but perhaps there is, perhaps not. Depends what project; you wouldn't want to waste time contributing to something that dies (of course some time spent learning is beneficial, but it's not ideal). My preference is for personal projects that have some general benefit (this is how I've learned various things and learned to love trac and hudson and nunit and so on). -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature.
RE: Skilling Up
I also found reading expert's way of coding and structuring program saves me a lot of time. I went to http://www.codeplex.com/ It help me lot when learning WPF. David -Original Message- From: silky [mailto:noonsli...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 2:03 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: Skilling Up Any particular user groups that you would recommend? Come to MXUG next week: https://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=enpli=1 There is also datamelb tonight: http://groups.google.com/group/datamelb As for getting started; it's obvious, but just find something you want to do, and try and do it. Most of what I want to do can be done in the form of a website, hence I'm doing various things in the ASP.NET MVC framework, which I would recommend. For Windows apps yes, WPF is of interest, but I wouldn't personally dedicate much time to Silverlight (but I'm biased, as I'm headed out of programming anyway, some people find it fruitful). Like others, I can highly recommend participation in online forums/mailing lists for the purposes of learning. StackOverflow is good, but not great, in my humble opinion. But it is the better out of all the forum options. I tend to prefer lists as they allow deeper discussion. It's kind of a good time to get into .NET as there are a variety of changes in the framework that means you'll kind of be on even footing with other guys (LINQ is relatively new, etc, etc) so you can feel reasonable confident that even the longer-term programmers aren't experts in that yet, and there is still plenty of ground to discover and fun things to do. I don't personally see a lot of value in joining open source projects, but perhaps there is, perhaps not. Depends what project; you wouldn't want to waste time contributing to something that dies (of course some time spent learning is beneficial, but it's not ideal). My preference is for personal projects that have some general benefit (this is how I've learned various things and learned to love trac and hudson and nunit and so on). -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being this signature.
Cheap programming books at Borders
Hi all, Just a FYI, I was at Borders today (killing time in Geelong), and they had a heap of programming books for $5 each: many of the latest or 2008/3.5 stuff as well as other programming books. I grabbed half a dozen for myself; just hope my kindle will forgive me ;) Anyway, not sure if it is all Border's stores or not, but worth having a look if you're passing one.
