re: SQLite and SQL Server schemas

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew McGrath
Are you likely to be replicating information back and forth between SQL Server and SQLite? Am currently investigating using some variation of a GUID to enable good replicability between SQL Server and SQLite when using Microsoft's open source Sync Framework 4.0 - to replace the previously used

Re: WCF service best practises

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew McGrath
There is also SignalR which is being developed by a couple of Microsofties, is open source and has just gone 1.0. You can find it at http://signalr.net. From: "Craig van Nieuwkerk" Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:23 AM To: "ozDotNet" Subject: Re: WCF

Re: occasionally connected application design problem

2013-03-27 Thread Andrew McGrath
Another option is Microsoft Sync Framework - version 2 also works with non-MS data sources. Andrew From: "David Rhys Jones" Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:39 PM To: "ozDotNet" Subject: Re: occasionally connected application design problem This is jus

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Andrew McGrath
.NET 2.0 coding still has some uses Had to stick to it to create a .NET IDE for the webusing Visual Web GUI (essentially .NET WinForms that runs via your browser) and Xamarin. Can now write .NET code once and run it on web, natively on Android, iOS, Mac and PCuseful in some scenarios.

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Andrew McGrath
My understanding is that Unity3D doesn't let you produce a web client. So we built our own to do web & native from the one codebase. Tried to talk to Xamarin about licensing just their compiler to integrate into the web-based IDE we have built, but they stopped talking about having an OEM agreem

RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew McGrath
Why not Visual Studio on an MS Smartwatch, projected up onto the wall? You could run your unit tests overnight and it can buzz to wake you if a test fails. From: "Tony Wright" Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 3:13 PM To: "Ken Schaefer" , "ozDotNet" Sub

RE: [OT] Email forwarding

2013-11-28 Thread Andrew McGrath
xname.org is free (donations accepted too) - have been using them for years for many domains without any issues. Andrew From: "Ken Schaefer" Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:48 AM To: "ozDotNet" Subject: RE: [OT] Email forwarding GoDaddy provide free

re: [OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew McGrath
You probably need to change your Twitter password. You've inadvertently clicked on a link somewhere that has captured your Twitter authentication token or even password and that is being used by some bot to send tweets on your behalf. That's a roundabout description for it - pretty sure changing

RE: GUIDs

2014-05-02 Thread Andrew McGrath
Hi Anthony, As part of your discovery process, you might find this CodeProject article useful. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/388157/GUIDs-as-fast-primary-keys-under-multiple-database Regards Andrew From: "GregAtGregLowDotCom" Sent: Saturday, May 03

re: debugging object

2014-05-20 Thread Andrew McGrath
Not exactly sure what you are looking for in terms of a nuget package but I do the following: In the exception handler I call my own Debug.ReportException method to which I would pass the properties of the "interesting" object as List, then I include the stack trace by calling this code: publi

Re: [OT] Quiet

2014-09-18 Thread Andrew McGrath
I am in a bit of a bind at the moment on whether to stick with .NET or make the JavaScript jump. Over many years I have built a platform (including drag and drop designer, code editor, intellisense, CodeDOM/Roslyn etc - integrated debugging to come soon) on top of an Israeli-founded, Citrix (

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-21 Thread Andrew McGrath
I tried on multiple OSes (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Mac OSX) and multiple browsers on each (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and nothing worked - must have spent 6 hours trying. I still lodge mine in person by dropping into their office. From: "Mark

re: .NET friendly cloud-compute recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Andrew McGrath
Am in a similar position to you with the .NET APaaS (Application Platform as a Service) we have developed at http://EziAdmin.com. So far everything is being kept on a single server but am about to setup to deploy across domains etc - am getting some code on this later in the week (from a presen

RE: Excel in .NET (C# or VB)

2011-02-20 Thread Andrew McGrath
Using xlsgen to manage situation very similar to yours. Has worked very well on a variety of projects. Website is at http://xlsgen.arstdesign.com/ Andrew From: "etmilis" Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 3:02 PM To: "ozDotNet" Subject: RE: Excel in .NET

Re: Excel in .NET (C# or VB)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew McGrath
"ozDotNet" Subject: Re: Excel in .NET (C# or VB) On 21 February 2011 18:08, Andrew McGrath wrote: > Using xlsgen to manage situation very similar to yours. Has worked very well > on a variety of projects. > > Website is at http://xlsgen.arstdesign.com/ > > Andrew H

Re: Microsoft acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew McGrath
Have ventured down the ReactJS path after not getting any response from Xamarin regards OEM-ing their compiler for the APaaS platform we wrote, despite several attempts to discuss with them. At least another software tools company (Citrix-funded, Israeli-founded) simply changed their licens