Re: Approaching obsolescence

2024-10-07 Thread Preet Sangha via ozdotnet
Interesting reading this thread. I learned to code in 78 and have been doing this as a pro for nearly 40 years. I'm really sorry you're burning out mate. Me? I feel completely the opposite. So many new things to learn. So many new people to work with. So many interesting problems to solve that

Re: Platform x64 argument

2022-10-12 Thread Preet Sangha
> "it's an x64 world and it creates a better impression" *the 2000's called and they want their outdated assumptions back* regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 11:48, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet wrote: > Folks, one of my colleagues insists on compiling everything as platform > x

Re: WinForms toolbox blank in .NET 6

2022-09-10 Thread Preet Sangha
Greg, in a situation like this the only thing that comes to mind (after all the usual searching and reinstalls you've already tried) is to search the windows logs for any clues. Also perhaps work machines are some obscure hardening/firewall/similar type settings that are blocking call out/in and th

Re: Indexed JSON documents (file system)

2022-09-01 Thread Preet Sangha
And also this: https://github.com/SleekwareDB/sleekwaredb regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 12:28, Preet Sangha wrote: > I found this: https://github.com/ketanip/dbjson hope it helps. > > regards, > Preet, in Auckland NZ > > > > On Fri, 2 Sept 2

Re: Indexed JSON documents (file system)

2022-09-01 Thread Preet Sangha
I found this: https://github.com/ketanip/dbjson hope it helps. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 11:20, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet wrote: > Folks, back to work. > > I'm trying to convince some colleagues that they should persist "reports" > from a product as JSON instead of a

Re: Deleting registry hive root key

2022-04-21 Thread Preet Sangha
gt; > > reg delete HKCR\MyKeyToDelete > > I need the C# code equivalent of this. I'll bet there's a trick for this > hidden somewhere in plain sight?! It doesn't seem dangerous or obscure > enough for special procedures like mounting hives. > > *Greg* >

Re: Deleting registry hive root key

2022-04-21 Thread Preet Sangha
I kind of get the feeling that this is something that would be done by mounting the hive in another instance of windows or perhaps a live Linux, or during the set. I cant see how you'd do it programmatically I'm afraid (unless your program is a low level on running in the pre-boot stage - like when

Re: Technology euology

2022-03-24 Thread Preet Sangha
I literally have my .net security book from Apress holding up my monitor and it's about 10cm away from my fingers at the moment. I spent ages learning that and all the other stuff you mention. I spent a considerable time in my early career building RPC over serial ports in C and assembler so that

Re: Regex and Span

2022-01-21 Thread Preet Sangha
Is this a personal challenge or can you just use something like grep on WSL? regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 13:49, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I have to parse just over a million lines of text as quickly as > possible. I'm using a Regex instance with a simple pattern (no

Re: [OT] Old .NET Runtimes

2021-11-04 Thread Preet Sangha
Hi Greg, Just looking through the source of that tool opens the possibility of finding the locations in Windows (registry etc) where these old ones may be found (e.g. https://github.com/dotnet/cli-lab/blob/main/src/dotnet-core-uninstall/Windows/RegistryQuery.cs ) I think looking through the code

Re: [OT-ish] IIS win auth for different domains

2021-09-07 Thread Preet Sangha
Just a quick google came up with this https://forums.iis.net/t/1153075.aspx Which talks about ensuring that the domains trust each other first. Also, this alludes to what I think you're doing... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25988437/configure-iis-authentication-from-another-domain regard

Re: Publish conditional

2021-08-11 Thread Preet Sangha
And perhaps use the Choose statement? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/choose-element-msbuild?view=vs-2019 regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 19:37, Preet Sangha wrote: > This might be relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28874918/30225 > >

Re: Publish conditional

2021-08-11 Thread Preet Sangha
This might be relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28874918/30225 > While conditional import statements work in command-line MSBuilds, > they do not work with MSBuild in the Visual Studio integrated > development environment (IDE). Conditional imports are evaluated by > using the configuration an

Re: Dotfuscating

2020-09-28 Thread Preet Sangha
I think you can use the command line for this. I don't use it but a quick google gave me : https://www.preemptive.com/dotfuscator/pro/userguide/en/interfaces_command_line.html regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 11:24, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, for the first time I have to

Re: Migrating bitbucket

2020-03-31 Thread Preet Sangha
Greg, Can you not use a container for the python downloads? I'm sure you've seen this but just in case https://github.com/dusty-phillips/gitifyhg it says it needs python 2.7 regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 14:13, Greg Keogh wrote: > > A few years ago I ended up doing t

Re:

2019-12-26 Thread Preet Sangha
uestion your developers. >>> >>> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 23:11, Grant Maw wrote: >>> >>>> I thought all credit cards use the Mod10 (Kuhn) algorithm. I seem to >>>> remember it being a safeguard against data entry errors back in the day, >&g

Re:

2019-12-26 Thread Preet Sangha
Regex to identify potential card numbers and then a Luhn check to see >>> if it is actually a valid card number. >>> >>> From my bookmarks: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm >>> >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21249670/imp

Re:

2019-12-17 Thread Preet Sangha
Sorry I mean it's not flowing. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 18:32, Preet Sangha wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Thanks for that. We are an large enterprise platform doing thousands of > transactions via gateways - CC info is normally flowing through our code >

Re:

2019-12-17 Thread Preet Sangha
*security etc. > > > > Just a another random thought, YMMV. > > > > *Security of the card information > > > > Ed. > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com *On > Behalf Of *Preet Sangha > *Sent:* Wednesday, 18 December 2019 2:41 PM &

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2019-12-17 Thread Preet Sangha
Would anyone know of any credit card validation/detection or similar libraries that we may be able incorporate into our .net framework code (preferably in nuget form) in order to eliminate our own hand coded regexs please? Regards Preet

Re: Async Await.

2019-03-26 Thread Preet Sangha
*forking* hell! regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 22:52, Greg Keogh wrote: > > I've started a new post, and one of the applications here uses Async Await >> for nearly every method call, even for simple calls that just create an >> object and return it. >> > > How on earth

Re: Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

2019-03-15 Thread Preet Sangha
nse//msdn etc > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 12:44 Preet Sangha wrote: > >> I see that parallels is VM software.I assume that I will need a windows >> 10 license to go with it? >> >> regards, >> Preet, in Auckland NZ >> >> >> >> On Sat,

Re: Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

2019-03-15 Thread Preet Sangha
I see that parallels is VM software.I assume that I will need a windows 10 license to go with it? regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 14:02, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Parallels will let you run windows oses, mostly just a matter of having a >> powerful enough machine, either way

Re: Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

2019-03-15 Thread Preet Sangha
I originally read that as Band Camp and was mightily confused. Thank you. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 12:48, Alan Ingleby wrote: > Get top spec Macbook and set up bootcamp. Best of both worlds! > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 09:28, Preet Sangha wrote:

Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

2019-03-15 Thread Preet Sangha
I am starting with a new role in a few weeks and I've been asked the question if want a windows or apple laptop. I do .net development but it's all still framework not core. but we're moving in that direction. I'm thinking of using this opportunity to finally start working on a 'unixy' machine for

Re: [OT] SQL Server DB designed for reporting

2019-02-01 Thread Preet Sangha
I spent a few years building these kind of reporting systems. Here are the key things I learned: 1. Absolutely design your reporting DB with completely different concerns to the transaction one. A Star schema is what I'd recommend. 2. Avoid SSIS unless you are doing something very high volume an

Re: [OT] Server 2008 R2 to 2019

2018-12-27 Thread Preet Sangha
Inside MFC was one of the best books I read back in the day. How to connect a C api to an object oriented abstraction was pretty good reading - despite the macros and others crap in MFC. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 20:53, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Mother in law got me a

Re: [OT] Server 2008 R2 to 2019

2018-12-27 Thread Preet Sangha
Hahaha no it's just an electrical device that creates a massive arc that melts metal. No certs needed. TBH I bought it a weeks back though I only really used it yesterday to fix my daughters bed. Yes they are dangerous - but they are simple if you follow the rules (face/eyes, hand and body plus lun

Re: [OT] Server 2008 R2 to 2019

2018-12-26 Thread Preet Sangha
Merry Xmas etc. I bought myself a welder but I also gave away some tech does that count? On Thu., 27 Dec. 2018, 8:07 pm Greg Keogh Hi folks (quiet in here lately... where is all the .NET chatter these > days?) > > My home office LAN has a Windows 2008 R2 server running on a real box. It > only do

Re: Dot net core 2.1 and ssas

2018-10-17 Thread Preet Sangha
might be > good enough! > > Kind regards, > Tony > > On Thu., 18 Oct. 2018, 9:19 am Preet Sangha, > wrote: > >> Nice. Let me know how it goes I'd be interested in the package for future >> reference >> >> >> regards, >> Preet, in

Re: Dot net core 2.1 and ssas

2018-10-17 Thread Preet Sangha
uggestion. > > On Thu., 18 Oct. 2018, 6:57 am Preet Sangha, > wrote: > >> Hi tony, >> >> I've not touched ssas for a couple of years (before I went core :-) and a >> quick google seems to me that the ado libs for ssas are not there for core. >> Person

Re: Dot net core 2.1 and ssas

2018-10-17 Thread Preet Sangha
Hi tony, I've not touched ssas for a couple of years (before I went core :-) and a quick google seems to me that the ado libs for ssas are not there for core. Personally I'd suggest exposing the cubes using a webapi though this is not a strict core solution either via your own .net FMK service own

Re: Installers for a windows service

2018-10-01 Thread Preet Sangha
you can. On Tue., 2 Oct. 2018, 7:23 pm kirsten greed, wrote: > Thanks Preet I found it > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 2:30 PM Preet Sangha wrote: > >> The old visual studio installer projects are available. You just have to >> install the extension yourself. I found that in 201

Re: Installers for a windows service

2018-10-01 Thread Preet Sangha
The old visual studio installer projects are available. You just have to install the extension yourself. I found that in 2015 and 2017. On Tue., 2 Oct. 2018, 5:22 pm kirsten greed, wrote: > Hi Folk > I understand that VS2017 does not include an installer (2015 apparently > made use of Install Sh

Re: C# SqlConnection Nested Stored Proc Deadlock

2018-01-31 Thread Preet Sangha
Can you use a try catch in the outewr proc and get the error number such as in this page? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa175791(v=sql.80).aspx ( *SQL Essentials: Using TRY/CATCH to Resolve Deadlocks in SQL Server 2005)* regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 1 February 2018 at 14:42,

Re: Global SQL Server timeout

2017-07-09 Thread Preet Sangha
;Connection Timeout=XX in the connection string where XX is in seconds is the way to do it in a single connection string. I don't know about EL regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 10 July 2017 at 14:27, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I have some old code that uses a mixture of Enterprise Library

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-23 Thread Preet Sangha
Cheers piers. That's a hell of map. On 23/06/2017 2:10 am, "Piers Williams" wrote: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap seems like quite a good landscape overview On 18 June 2017 at 18:47, Preet Sangha wrote: > Thanks guys. I suspect that what I'm really

Re: [OT] Sit/stand desk results

2017-06-19 Thread Preet Sangha
Hey Tom. No I decided to try it when I joined a new company. I've been itching to try it (and didn't bother when working from home - laziness). I didn't do it for health reasons other that the nebulous "it's better for you to not sit all day". I'm overweight and I was hoping it would make me lose

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-18 Thread Preet Sangha
but finding the "right" one might be a > much harder task as there are so many. In all my years as a developer, > I've never seen two projects using identical technology stacks. Even when > you compare two Angular projects, or whatever. > > That's gotta make ch

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-17 Thread Preet Sangha
Are the. Net core skills in demand where you guys are based? Is anyone doing commercial projects in the portable technologies? I've read about people experience of xamarin on the list and it doesn't seem to resonate as mature technology. On 16/06/2017 11:00 pm, "Preet Sangha&quo

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread Preet Sangha
gt; joking. :) If your reason is because you want to update and get back into >> it I'd say go hard on Javascript. If you're after money I'd say forget all >> that and get into Salesforce lol. Kidding. Well not really. As I said >> earlier you need to know your marke

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread Preet Sangha
Salesforce lol. Kidding. Well not really. As I said > earlier you need to know your market too if you're wanting to be valuable > (hireable). > > Cheers > > > On Friday, 16 June 2017, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> Hi team, >> >> Got Friday OT question for y

What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread Preet Sangha
Hi team, Got Friday OT question for you all. I started .net with the beta and used aspx all those years ago. I stayed with ASPX until about 2007 but about then I moved into doing more desktop development. I'd really like to dust off and polish my web dev skills but there seems to be a plethora of

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

2017-04-06 Thread Preet Sangha
Actually pressed send too early. >From my original question. Will windows folder redirection mean I won't be able to apply my permissions modification to a knows file location or is WFR invisible to me? regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 7 April 2017 at 13:35, Preet Sangha wrote:

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

2017-04-06 Thread Preet Sangha
Cheers Greg regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 7 April 2017 at 13:19, Greg Keogh wrote: > In terms of permission I can use icacls to make the changes can't I? >> > > I'm lucky to have some installer CAs written in C# so I tweak permissions > in code. You could shell-out to the icacls command,

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

2017-04-06 Thread Preet Sangha
changing > permissions, editing and then changing back is no big deal. I have my > installer run a simple program to do what you want and it works OK. > > Glen. > On 6/04/2017 7:17 AM, Preet Sangha wrote: > > team, > > I have a .config file (not the main blah.exe.config) tha

Re: Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

2017-04-05 Thread Preet Sangha
eems the least worst, assuming you have some control over the > installation process. > > *GK* > > On 6 April 2017 at 07:47, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> team, >> >> I have a .config file (not the main blah.exe.config) that needs some >> special mangling at runtime. >&g

Windows folder redirection and Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location and editing a .config file at run time

2017-04-05 Thread Preet Sangha
team, I have a .config file (not the main blah.exe.config) that needs some special mangling at runtime. My google fu is failing me. Provided that I'm running on a OS Window 7+, will the above .net 4.52 call and I write to the file, do I have to anything special to allow my program to write to th

Re: Ozdotnet list

2017-04-03 Thread Preet Sangha
As a non Oz developer (I'm in Auckland) I suppose I don't have much say. So I'll just add that my chief bug bear with of web boards is the utter shite most seem to have in terms of conversation threading, searching, and also the formatting of code. As long as these are good then I'd be happy to con

Re: FrontBase

2017-03-24 Thread Preet Sangha
Never used it myself - but looking through the docs I think i supports ODBC, to perhaps you can use a tools like MS Query/Access etc to access it? regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 24 March 2017 at 23:14, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > I have a backup of a FrontBase (http://www.frontbase.com) d

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtualmachines still the way to go?

2017-02-04 Thread Preet Sangha
Well done - what a memory! PF 1 ===> HELP PF 2 ===> SPLIT PF 3 ===> END PF 4 ===> RETURN PF 5 ===> RFIND PF 6 ===> RCHANGE PF 7 ===> UP PF 8 ===> DOWN PF 9 ===> SWAP PF10 ===> LEFT PF11 ===> RIGHT PF12 ===> RETRIEVE https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ikjp10

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtualmachines still the way to go?

2017-02-03 Thread Preet Sangha
hat is PF5 ? > -- > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bounces@ > ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha > *Sent:* Saturday, 4 February 2017 10:47 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are > Virtualmachines s

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtual machines still the way to go?

2017-02-03 Thread Preet Sangha
Your VMs take a long time to load? I've been using SSd for about 4/5 years now and don't find VMs take that long at all, esp. since there is not need to power down. You can just pause them. For my dev box I have SQL server (2 versions), VS 2010 (C++) and VS 2015 (complete) , though the 2010 is now

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-21 Thread Preet Sangha
> *Breaking news* ... I see that WiX has Visual Studio integration since I last tried it. This sounds really encouraging. Has anyone tried it? I'll give it a try now (and I expect to shed more of my hair in frustration). nope. the integration in VS is pretty poor/basic. It's sort of usable for MSI

Re: Portable Web Server?

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Scott, I don't think WF is available on .net Core yet. So in that case I'd recommend IIS Express as your host. All the WF stuff I did was years ago and it was all IIS based. It's grown considerably easier I hear. Preet regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 19 January 2017 at 19:46, Scott Barnes

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
I am not the only punter who thinks like this [1] > > > [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245260/installers- > wix-or-inno-setup > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Preet Sangha > wrote: > >> Is it just me or is WIX just just a complete utter PITA? >> >>

Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Is it just me or is WIX just just a complete utter PITA? The documentation is appalling. It's basically incomplete and what's there is spread out all over the web. I know the issue is that the underlying MSI infrstructure is the real problem but I'm just going to rant about WIX. Preet

Re: [OT] IT in 'The Martian'

2017-01-06 Thread Preet Sangha
Talking of old processors - did you guys see this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZb4NLXx1aM It's very low tech (Z80) and he boots it up on a bread board. Sort of what you'd expect of that really old stuff on those probes. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 6 January 2017 at 21:09, Davy Jone

Re: [OT] HP Spectre x360 thoughts

2016-12-13 Thread Preet Sangha
Not used this device in particular, but I've found that the the best increase in speed I've ever found was with raid 0 ssds. It was blistering even on a pc from 5 years ago. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 14 December 2016 at 19:34, Tom P wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm thinking of buying the H

Re: PowerShell help

2016-09-25 Thread Preet Sangha
[Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments") | Set-Location regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 26 September 2016 at 04:34, Ian Thomas wrote: > Just trying to set the initial folder as the my documents in a profile – > this fails > > set-location [Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments") > > b

SHA1 & SHA2 and WCF Services in Azure

2016-09-14 Thread Preet Sangha
If I have a hosted WCF service in Azure, at some point MS will stop allowing SHA1 encrypted sessions with said service. I'm trying to get a handle on when this is likely. I know that at the end of the year various browsers will stop people connecting to SHA1 only compliant sites, but I'm not so su

replicating the functionality of openssl command line using openssl.net

2016-08-03 Thread Preet Sangha
Hi there, I'm in a bit of a rabbit warren of research and am basically lost. I need to determine if a server supports a particular version of TLS programmatically. I can determine it using the openssl tool with the command: openssl.exe s_client -connect someServerName:995 -tls1_1 But I've no

Re: Training/Mentoring a developer who doesn't seem to use many modern development productivity tools

2016-07-19 Thread Preet Sangha
utter wrote: > >> Yeap I like this idea. Just watching videos with lots of shortcuts gets >> old real quick. Good luck and let us know how it goes, I'm curious how it >> works out. >> >> >> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Preet Sangha wrote: >> >>

Re: Training/Mentoring a developer who doesn't seem to use many modern development productivity tools

2016-07-18 Thread Preet Sangha
r programming. You or someone else who > sits with her can occasionally ask her to use some shortcuts. Just don't > bombard her with shortcuts as she won't absorb them. One or two per pair > session should help a lot. > > On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Preet Sangha wrote: > >

Re: Training/Mentoring a developer who doesn't seem to use many modern development productivity tools

2016-07-18 Thread Preet Sangha
About 18 months. I've just taken this project new project. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 19 July 2016 at 16:10, Tom Rutter wrote: > I'm more of a manual guy myself and have become pretty efficient but it > only came with experience and coding for a while. How long has she been > with your

Training/Mentoring a developer who doesn't seem to use many modern development productivity tools

2016-07-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Guys I wonder if I can ask for some advice please. I'm currently leading a project with a developer who originally came from a Delphi background but has been using visual studio (C++ and C#) for a few years now. However I'm finding that she doesn't seem to have much experience of many of the produ

Re: [OT] Free Blog

2016-06-23 Thread Preet Sangha
I've always used blogspot but I'm not very active anymore. On 23/06/2016 6:07 pm, "Tom Rutter" wrote: > Hi Folks > > A friend has asked where is a good place to start her new blog. I'm not a > blogger myself so looking for any recommendations. I've heard people tease > WordPress here and there bu

Re: [OT] PC powering off

2016-06-09 Thread Preet Sangha
Overheating either on the CPU (reseating heatsink), or perhaps the power supply as you say. we had the first and my son got some gloop and reseated the heatsink. We recorded the temp before and after and that's how we determined it. I can't remember the program but there are some free ones that r

Re: Contemporary frameworks to use for restful web services with SQL backend

2016-06-06 Thread Preet Sangha
chanism may be an options. > > > On Monday, 6 June 2016, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> I've been out of .net Web stuff for many years and now need to build a >> webservice with a sql backend. I've seen many posts on here from you guys >> going web stuff and won

Re: Contemporary frameworks to use for restful web services with SQL backend

2016-06-06 Thread Preet Sangha
regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 6 June 2016 at 23:46, Greg Keogh wrote: > Have you decided on the style you need: SOAP and XML, or RESTful? -- *GK* > > On 6 June 2016 at 21:20, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> I've been out of .net Web stuff for many years and now need to

Contemporary frameworks to use for restful web services with SQL backend

2016-06-06 Thread Preet Sangha
I've been out of .net Web stuff for many years and now need to build a webservice with a sql backend. I've seen many posts on here from you guys going web stuff and wondered if you could point me in the right direction please? If I wanted to build .net based web cased service, would I need to use

Re: [OT] Small pc

2016-06-01 Thread Preet Sangha
f Of *David Connors >> *Sent:* Thursday, 2 June 2016 11:03 AM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Small pc >> >> >> >> On Tue, 31 May 2016 at 14:47 Preet Sangha wrote: >> >> Intel compute stick? >> >> I bought one of these. They

Re: Microsoft gold partnership process

2016-06-01 Thread Preet Sangha
tencies > > > > This should give you all the information you need. > > > > *Regards* > > > > *Adrian Halid* > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha > *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 M

Microsoft gold partnership process

2016-05-30 Thread Preet Sangha
I've just been tasked with getting our apac group of firms, a second partnership gold agreement. I've never done anything like this before. I have been told that Ms agree that this is possible. Before I contact MS myself, I wondering if there are any gotchas or tips I can read up on to lubricate

Re: [OT] Small pc

2016-05-30 Thread Preet Sangha
Intel compute stick? On 31/05/2016 4:45 PM, "Tom Rutter" wrote: > Folks, I am after a very small and cheap pc that can run Win 7+ and IE8+. > Any ideas? > > Cheers >

RE: Gadgets [OT]

2016-04-28 Thread Preet Sangha
I have 17 items on order from aliexpress. I've just got into arduino and went mental on components. On 29/04/2016 1:30 pm, "Stephen Price" wrote: > Oh I did that last week with my new Samsung s7. Westpac have hooked up an > app. You open the app, select your card, use fingerprint to authorise it

Re: [OT] New laptop

2016-04-05 Thread Preet Sangha
I'm sort of looking at this now. Since I have a powerful desktop at work I can rdp from any piece of rubbish and still be productive. However for offline access and dev power is still needed so I'm still debating. I like the idea of a lightweight i5 Mac type device to be honest. On 6/04/2016 9:5

Re: Silverlight runtime

2016-03-02 Thread Preet Sangha
Are there any clues in the process monitor? On 3/03/2016 11:34 am, "Greg Keogh" wrote: > I've tried fiddling with IE11's trusted sites, compatibility settings, > different versions of the SDK and runtime, adjusting active plugins, > running VS2015 under different accounts, running IE11 under diff

Re: [OT] ACS - relevant?

2016-03-01 Thread Preet Sangha
I think this might be of use to some people [image: Inline images 1] regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 2 March 2016 at 10:41, David Apelt wrote: > I have enjoyed the conversation so far. ozDotNet is such a great forum. I > would like to bring the conversation back on topic. I am not trying t

Re: static interop dll loading issue

2016-02-24 Thread Preet Sangha
ile for 3.5 instead? > > Davy > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 02:56, Preet Sangha wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > > > I was wondering if there are any experts on here that may have come > across an issue that I've been working on all

static interop dll loading issue

2016-02-23 Thread Preet Sangha
Hey guys, I was wondering if there are any experts on here that may have come across an issue that I've been working on all day. I have 32bit legacy program C++ (VS2010) that makes a call to the .net (4.0) c# assembly via a static method on a class in the assembly. The call then loads a windows

Re: Slightly off topic : Time recording in TFS 2015

2015-12-16 Thread Preet Sangha
t; Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 >> Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • >> http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat >> >> >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of

Slightly off topic : Time recording in TFS 2015

2015-12-14 Thread Preet Sangha
I'm looking to implement this locally and was wondering if anyone is using any professional products to help record time against Work Items in TFS 2015. My company prefers to buy a solution than to support an in house development. I'm just started googling for products and thought I'd ask you guy

Re: Mobile passwords

2015-11-11 Thread Preet Sangha
I don't know if this relevant but I tend to use last pass and it let's me paste passwords into apps. But maybe this is only relevant for android. Anyway I'd make sure any app I write will not stop users using a tool like that too. On 11 Nov 2015 19:44, "Joseph Cooney" wrote: > If > On 11 Nov 2015

Re: Escrow : anyone been involved in the process?

2015-11-05 Thread Preet Sangha
ocess? >> >> >> >> Hi Preet, >> >> I would be very wary of entering into that process unless title was kept >> by you until they paid in full. They mustn't be allowed to use the software >> in production like environments until they've paid for ever

Escrow : anyone been involved in the process?

2015-11-05 Thread Preet Sangha
One of our customers (UK govt org) has requested that the software we provide is held in escrow. This will be our first product that is going to be escrowed and I've never been involved in the process and was wondering if it's a relatively straightforward process or something we'll need to careful

Re: [OT] Clients

2015-10-22 Thread Preet Sangha
I've not done freelance for a long time, but have been doing consultancy. In my experience unless you have a stakeholder prepared to chase the parties on their side this is an all too common occurrence. I now try and schedule meetings with fewer people for less time, but perhaps more often or regul

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Preet Sangha
I'm not doing web stuff but a quick search pointed at this "File Support on Mobiles" http://viljamis.com/blog/2012/file-upload-support-on-mobile/ which talks about . Hope that gives you some clues. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 22 October 2015 at 11:42, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I've go

Re: loading styles in WebBrowser

2015-10-19 Thread Preet Sangha
Does http://stackoverflow.com/a/10282202 help? I'm doing this on the phone so apologies if I've posted the wrong link. It was taking about using a reg key setting. On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, 07:44 Dr Tom Gao wrote: > Hi Guys, > > > > I’ve got a simple winform application that has an embedded WebBrowse

Re: Re-request - Office chair again

2015-10-16 Thread Preet Sangha
t; > I find it harder to think standing though. Not sure if there is a > scientific explanation for this or I just need more time standing for my > brain to switch over. > > > On Friday, 16 October 2015, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> I've been standing for about 10 weeks no

Re: Re-request - Office chair again

2015-10-16 Thread Preet Sangha
I've been standing for about 10 weeks now and it was quite hard in the first couple of weeks. I the other day a colleague mentioned that I was practically standing all day without taking good short sit down breaks. To tell you the truth it feels normal. Just like sitting and working did. I'm quite

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-08-19 Thread Preet Sangha
Tony, I got one last night and have been using it all day. It's fantastic. Thanks heaps for suggesting it. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 19 August 2015 at 12:01, Preet Sangha wrote: > Damn good idea. I forgot all about those. Bunnings here (Auckland) seem to > charge about $

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-08-18 Thread Preet Sangha
. > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:45 AM, DotNet Dude > wrote: > >> Tried the Varidesk for the last few months and it aint bad >> >> >> On Wednesday, 19 August 2015, Preet Sangha wrote: >> >>> Thank you, I am. I have plenty of meetings too where I have t

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-08-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Oh that's quite interesting. They look quite useful and it means it can be moved from around easily. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 19 August 2015 at 10:45, DotNet Dude wrote: > Tried the Varidesk for the last few months and it aint bad > > > On Wednesday, 19 August 2

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-08-18 Thread Preet Sangha
and and sit. Standing all day is really hard > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Preet Sangha > wrote: > >> I've just started a new job, and am trying to do the standing up desk >> thing. It's quite hard work (esp since I'm walking a few K in each >>

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-08-17 Thread Preet Sangha
I've just started a new job, and am trying to do the standing up desk thing. It's quite hard work (esp since I'm walking a few K in each direction from home too). At this moment any chair is a good one ;-) regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 18 August 2015 at 15:40, Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA) <

Alternative Web Service Proxy/Client class generators for .net recommendations?

2015-08-17 Thread Preet Sangha
I've been in the BI space for the past few years and so have sort of missed out on all web service goodness since .net 4 came out. I'm now back in the c# programming space and have need to consume a third party web service (written in PHP) and thus create client side proxy for it. Currently the Se

Re: More on 'CloudStream'

2015-06-17 Thread Preet Sangha
Ooh that takes me back to my IFS days regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 17 June 2015 at 12:26, Thomas Koster wrote: > Greg, > > On 15 June 2015 at 12:08, Greg Keogh wrote: > > I discovered by accident this morning that someone has already considered > > the issue of "a file system in the clo

Re: .NET/CLR on FreeBSD status update.

2015-04-27 Thread Preet Sangha
Thank you. This looks interesting. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 28 April 2015 at 09:10, Geoffrey Huntley wrote: > By now you have probably saw the news that the CLR is building > successfully on FreeBSD. > Well last night the port team progressed another milestone namely - IL > code ran

Re: [OT] Data Retention Bill

2015-03-26 Thread Preet Sangha
Yeah just replace Poland with liberty. On 27 Mar 2015 15:37, "Tom Rutter" wrote: > I don't know about "at least it was nice to see Libs and Labs finally > cooperate on something, anything". That's like Hitler and Stalin agreeing > on something. > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Greg Keogh wr

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