RE: [OT] sql convert datetime problem; forcing order of AND statements

Hi Wal, I am not suggesting this is necessarily the best approach, but at least it forces the expression evaluation order you want: Select Value >From DatesTest Where 1 = Case When IsDate(Value) = 1 Then Case When Cast(Value As datetime) >

RE: Running code snippets

+1 LINQPad From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:00 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Running code snippets Not sure about VS but I've used linq pad to do this. On 12 March 2013 12:57, Greg Keogh mailto:g

RE: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

I am a recent convert to Xamarin products to do cross-platform development all in C# for iOS, Android and Windows – all from within Visual Studio 2012 using a Mac mini as the iOS build server. Not cheap at $999 per platform, but there are free Starter and $299 independent developer editions. h

RE: Is Surface really failing?

I know I am ignoring the subject line but … Let me add myself as one more person on the list that likes Windows 8. I have been using Windows 8 since December last year on a desktop and am perfectly happy with it. I regularly switch use between it and Windows 7 on my work laptop and don’t feel

RE: Is Surface really failing?

logoff/lock. Having all of those in the one place before made sense. And losing “Recent Documents” is a PITA Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Fredericks, Chris Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 11

RE: Is Surface really failing?

I suspect the Office Ribbon wouldn’t have passed the "The Level 1 Helpdesk Test" either – but Office hasn’t been a ‘fail’. And I am sure that most of the initial ‘issues’ with Windows 8 will pass in time as users learn it’s nuances. Sometimes people have to make some effort to move out of their

RE: Is Surface really failing?

not obvious or intuitive, and introduce a learning curve, is not good and will hinder it's adoption. Perhaps many will skip Windows 8 altogether and jump instead to the next major release which we all hope is handled better. I don't have a choice and I place myself somewhere in the mi

RE: Is Surface really failing?

[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Unicorn.Consulting Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013 8:43 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Surface really failing? On 9/05/2013 3:06 PM, Fredericks, Chris wrote: I suspect the Office Ribbon wouldn’t have passed the "The Level 1 Helpdesk Test" ei

RE: Is Surface really failing?

Krispy Kreme of course! From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013 12:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Surface really failing? On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Fredericks, Chris mailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com

RE: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

I have occasionally received email for chrisfrederi...@gmail.com (my address without the full stop between first and last names) and the content indicated he/she lives in the US. So I share David's experience in reverse. Cheers, Chris From: ozdotnet-boun...@o

RE: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

Microsoft has left some room for ReSharper. :P Without braces:error - 'Invalid embedded statement' With braces:warning - 'Local variable 'foo' is never used' Cheers, Chris From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin Sent: Tuesda

RE: A simple tick the boxes data entry system

+1 for Ian's suggestion. If you still have the requirement to scan documents on the road, you might take a look at http://www.irislink.com/c2-2356-12/IRIScan-Anywhere-3---Cordless-Scanner.aspx. Battery powered and stores images on SD card. I haven't personally tried this device, so I am not

RE: Character set for variable names

Hi Greg, Character and string processing in C# uses Unicode encoding - all characters are 16-bit. The rules for Identifiers can be found in section 2.4.2 of The C# Programming Language, 4th Edition, Hejlsberg, Torgersen, Wiltamuth, Golde. Read it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/

RE: HTML5 capabilities

+1 for Xamarin - Full native code, cross platform development for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac OS X in C#. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael Ridland Sent: Monday, 1 July 2013 9:51 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: HTML5 capabilities Hi G

RE: HTML5 capabilities

You may want to look at specific videos of interest to you from Xamarin's recent Evolve seminar - http://blog.xamarin.com/all-evolve-session-videos-now-available/ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 1 July 2013 9:54 AM

RE: HTML5 capabilities

Sorry Greg, a better link - http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Fredericks, Chris Sent: Monday, 1 July 2013 1:47 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: HTML5 capabilities You may want to look at specific videos of interest

RE: HTML5 capabilities

AM, Stephen Price mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote: Looks interesting. Testing would be a pain, you'd need to have a device of each platform. Oh wait. I already do. :) On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Fredericks, Chris mailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com>> wrote: +1 for X

RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

That article appears to be about a year old. I will expand on Ken's post with this list of items that are currently backed up from that link and add some emphasis of my own: * The list of apps you've installed on your phone. * Your call history. * Your theme colour. * The accounts you've set up

RE: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

http://bit.ly/programmermusicsurvey works for me. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2014 11:54 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Favourite Coding Album FYI that bit.ly link gives a Skydrive error messa

RE: Favicons

It may be local to you, a cached page somewhere. The icon is showing in IE11 on my desktop and in IE8 and Chrome 33.0 on my laptop: [cid:image001.png@01CF33CD.AC867940] [cid:image002.png@01CF33CD.AC867940] Cheers, Chris From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.c

RE: OT - Magic Mushroom song from the 1980s

I once worked on a Univac 418-III based message switching system in the late 70s, early 80s that used 18-bit wide (2 x 8-bit words plus parity bit) ferrite core memory. Univac programmers had written software in assembler that allowed ‘music’ to be heard in a transistor radio tuned between stat

RE: [OT] markzware online payment

Hi Greg No I can't confirm. But I assume you can ring Westpac after hours support and ask for advice. Cheers Chris From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday, 26 June 2010 12:37 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] markzware on

RE: [OT] Loading file into a row

Hi Greg That should work if the file is accessible by the SQL Server process. The path 'E:\icons\SM\accicons04.ico' must be on the SQL Server's local file system - not the client machine unless it is the same machine. Also, the account that is running the SQL Server service will need sufficien

RE: Re:

Greg I have one of the first model BeBooks (http://mybebook.com) which I have had a few years now and it does the same thing. >From http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-paper: "The refresh of an eInk page creates a black flash and can create temporary "ghosting" effect which can be annoying t

RE: Merry XMas everyone

Thanks Bill. A Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year to you and your loved ones and to everyone on the list. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Friday, 24 December 2010 3:57 PM To:

RE: Easy util to browse a DBF

Hi David, I haven’t personally tried this, but you might take a look at: http://www.dbfview.com/index.html. I personally use 010 Binary Editor (http://www.010editor.com/) for browsing and editing binary and text files with special and custom format files such as fixed format data files etc. D

RE: Keyboard & Mouse Ergonomics + Qwerty/Dvorak/Colemak

Hi Les, A number of years ago I started getting quite annoying pain in my upper right arm and shoulder - not quite the same area as you. The occupational health department of my employer at the time arranged for an ergonomics health professional to visit me at my desk. Out of that he recommend

RE: [OT] Renting a data projector

OK, I'll bite - about 3 kms. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2011 3:17 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Renting a data projector >If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weeken

RE: [OT] Renting a data projector

Well I am really nitpicking as well. I must win because Greg stated "Using only mental calculations and guestimates ..." So, considering I didn't use anything other than a vague recollection of the answer to a similar Trivia Night question, my 'guess' of 3 km was damn close! Chris From: ozdo

RE: [OT] Security clearance for work in Canberra

It depends on the government department/agency and the security level of the clearance you wish to obtain. For example, when my employer required me to obtain Highly Protected security clearance with the ATO a couple of years ago, I had to complete many forms and provide certificate copies of m

RE: [OT] Security clearance for work in Canberra

AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Security clearance for work in Canberra On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Fredericks, Chris mailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com>> wrote: • Financial Declaration – includes annual net income for you and partner for the last three financial years,

RE: Setting DOS environment variables

Hi Greg, And I believe that is the case as well as with using 'Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("Foo", string.Format("{0:HHmmss}", DateTime.Now), EnvironmentVariableTarget.User);'. The variable will be available in new processes for that user, not the current process (my emphasis added): If

RE: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object,

Are you sure you don't want your testing environment rights matching those in production. How do you discover problems related to having elevated rights in all other environments, that stop your solution from working in production - causing a failed production implementation or worse - your use

RE: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object,

e-mail transmission by any person other than the named recipient(s) is prohibited. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Fredericks

RE: [OT] t-sql, dealing with null

You are checking a variable for equality with a literal value without having yet assigned a value. Also, with ANSI_NULLS on, you cannot use comparison type operators to check a variable for NULL as '= NULL' and '<> NULL' will be 'unknown' when NULL values are involved. You must use 'is null' o

RE: Environment variable ProgramFilesx86 - for x86 on 64-bit Windows

I have only tried this in LINQPad/LINQPad4, but this statement when run: var Filename = Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFilesX86); produces the following error in LINQPad (Net 3.5): 'System.Environment.SpecialFolder' does not contain a definition for 'ProgramF