Re: PDF Scraping

2024-01-16 Thread Stephen Russell
Keeping mouth shut. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:24 AM Richard Kaye wrote: > As Stephen would say, Bad Ed! 😉 > > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2024 8:18 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: PDF Scraping > > On Jan 12, 2024, at 21:51, Brian Erickson <

Re: FW: SQL Upsize

2023-10-18 Thread Stephen Russell
It may be an issue with a date column in FP that is not the same thing in newer versions of SQL Server. It may be a lot of other things as well, this is first guess. How many gigs of data? What version of SQL are you targeting? Are you using SSMS to work with SQL? With that you could PULL the

Re: Just call me Master, for short

2023-09-06 Thread Stephen Russell
I got a chuckle. I clicked on the link and. Mimecast requires you to enroll this device to access message links Your IT department has enabled Targeted Threat Protection for all users. This is a service that protects you from email attacks and provides live security training. Enter your ema

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

2023-04-05 Thread Stephen Russell
gt; progress is glacial… > > -- > > rk > > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Stephen > Russell > Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:21 AM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: Fun with .Net DLLs > > What are you expecting in the debug/test? In my mind, I'd ma

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

2023-04-05 Thread Stephen Russell
What are you expecting in the debug/test? In my mind, I'd make a console app and reference this picture dll you made. That console will act like VFP in the pass something to the DLL and receive the output in some way or another. I have been too busy to read the code you presented. Are you expe

I was on a call this morning with a guy who claimed to be a FP/VFP support with M$

2023-04-04 Thread Stephen Russell
His name is John Ramminger. Does anyone have any memories of this guy? Now he is a Sharepoint consultant. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body

Re: fox.wikis.com

2022-10-06 Thread Stephen Russell
Just go to the ARCHIVE of the web. https://web.archive.org/web/202200*/http://fox.wikis.com/ On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 9:06 AM Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 6:16 AM Man-wai Chang wrote: > > > > That's just a backup, which might disappear some days. > > All of mankind's works

Re: Pictures in a table

2022-08-16 Thread Stephen Russell
In some environments, you have to store the document in a db because you are on a large network. That path may not correspond to others say viewing an XRay and getting an opinion from a team in Japan, Australia, etc. You also have to have killer backups of that folder where they are kept as well

Re: Need Help - Foxpro & Chilkat & Rest API

2022-07-12 Thread Stephen Russell
Do you use Postman to test what yo need to do with the API? Then just make the same call from the web side of VFP. Catch json responses and you are good. On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 9:20 AM Richard Kaye wrote: > Generally speaking, the token is the key that unlocks access to the APIs > you want to

Re: VFP to SharePoint Spreadsheet Dashboard

2022-04-05 Thread Stephen Russell
I'd consider doing a PowerBI dashboard to deliver the "news" on trailer status. Doing it in SP is good too, but updating that data source is a lot harder IMO from VFP. >From SQL Server there are hooks built for doing this in an SSIS job. You could schedule that job to run ever 2-5 min. You coul

Re: CURSORTOXML and NULLs

2022-03-30 Thread Stephen Russell
You could consider your TSQL query to give you the XML in the initial query. using : Select FOR XML PATH('NameOfDataHere'), ROOT('NameOfDataHere'), ELEMENTS When you name the columns, put in the XML element path/name c.ClientCity as "billTo/address/city", On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:45

Re: [NF] Facets Database???

2022-03-07 Thread Stephen Russell
It could be working with them as well. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18347277/how-to-create-a-faceted-search-with-sql-server On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:14 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > That reminds me of DotNet job ads when they asked

I saw a Fox to SQL job posting

2022-01-26 Thread Stephen Russell
- Develop a system to synchronize data between FoxPro and SQL Server databases. https://codemag.com/Jobs/Apply/03bfd079-f665-43af-a1de-a8eab5c964fa Probably remote and it gets you noticed at Code mag for future work. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN

Re: [NF] Beyond Quickbooks

2022-01-22 Thread Stephen Russell
My company is pushing our ERP from on-prem to on-line. We were told we have to DELETE a lot of that old worthless data. That is 400 gigs of GL detail in one table alone as well as more in supporting tables. The point is we were told that we no longer need ALL of those transactions that are past

For all of you Forms guys...

2021-11-17 Thread Stephen Russell
will allow you to write for linux or mac as well. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text

[NF] you are...

2021-11-10 Thread Stephen Russell
He: You are the ';' to my code. She: I code in Python. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept)

[NF] Want to hear what .NET 6 has?

2021-10-28 Thread Stephen Russell
Marcus Egger gives another talk on what M$ is releasing next month. Mobile, cloud, web. desktop, IOT, and more. CODE Video - (codemag.com) <https://www.codemag.com/Videos/Play/99HmIyxlXsw> -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- Str

[NF] ML & Python anyone?

2021-09-30 Thread Stephen Russell
Good intro into ML using python as your code base. https://www.makeuseof.com/machine-learning-project-ideas-for-beginners/ -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text

Re: Retire the CSV?

2021-08-24 Thread Stephen Russell
essage- > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Stephen > Russell > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 3:35 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: Retire the CSV? > > Till users put in commas because they are needed Last name, first name. > Or commas in dollar amounts. Yeah thos

Re: Retire the CSV?

2021-08-24 Thread Stephen Russell
time as the property in the goods passes to the buyer the seller > shall be entitled at any time -Original Message- > From: ProFox On Behalf Of Eric Selje > Sent: 23 August 2021 15:30 > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: Retire the CSV? > > He's right. And it w

Re: SweetPotatosoftware.com

2021-08-24 Thread Stephen Russell
I like the logo that looks to have the cd drive sticking it's tongue out at you. On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:34 AM Ted Roche wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 8:31 AM Vince Teachout wrote: > > > Went right in, no problem. It looks nice. I wonder if he updated it? > > > > It looked different in 20

Retire the CSV?

2021-08-23 Thread Stephen Russell
https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/ It's so simple they say. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text

Re: [NF] Winforms

2021-08-20 Thread Stephen Russell
That text goes into the details of how I said to do it. Thus I agree that it can be done and re-used. Now the Q I have is WHY? If you have branded UI button styles? What else are you extracting to re-use with your enhancements on time and again? Create the control library project Define a cus

Re: [NF] Winforms

2021-08-18 Thread Stephen Russell
You could create a project where you subclassed any form widget in your way. Then in every new solution, you include that project and use those classes at the top instead of: using System.Windows.Forms.Form you would use : using MyUberCoolSystem.Windows.Forms.Form Just like you had to do in VF

Just heard the new verbage concerning Insert/Update

2021-08-04 Thread Stephen Russell
doing this practice for 1-2 years now and just heard the catchy name for it. I will also throw back the ID for the new record as an output param. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart

Do you want to hear more about Win 11?

2021-07-27 Thread Stephen Russell
g3JN3eL8X-2FZVwnpUsv6Z6eCub0QebZaGZ-2BXqOhzi1ZfXiKWN4jlJWdzrPWqndiTTY-3D> -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept)

Re: Windows 11???

2021-06-28 Thread Stephen Russell
Or port to Angualr, React, Vue, etc. All of that potential porting revenue you have missed out on. On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 9:05 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Hmmm...I thought Windows 10 was the last OS! Does this mean we have the > anxiety

[NF] Python and where it is going.

2021-06-17 Thread Stephen Russell
If you are questioning python in your future. https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/webinars/webinar---the-future-of-python/thank-you -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart

Re: [NF] VS 2022 will be 64 bit they say.

2021-04-19 Thread Stephen Russell
The brand image for Save is in need of an overhaul. https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=save%20image Does anyone under 25 know what a floppy disk was? On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:04 PM Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:31, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > > Also include

[NF] VS 2022 will be 64 bit they say.

2021-04-19 Thread Stephen Russell
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2022/ Also included are refreshed icons! -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept

Re: Variations in CSV settings by region

2021-04-17 Thread Stephen Russell
I'd take the CSV file and save it as XML. Then rip from there. Not sure if there is a json reader/writer for VFP yet. if you look to sql server you could import the data through the IMPORT wizard as well. You tell it the delimiters etc per file. On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 8:42 AM Richard Kaye wr

Re: [NF] Desktop Development in the roaring 20s

2021-03-30 Thread Stephen Russell
> desktop app compared to a web app for many head-down data entry kinds of > apps. Is that still true to the most extent? > > > On 3/29/2021 10:32 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > Most of the group will remember Robert Green. > > > > > https://channel9.msdn.com/S

[NF] Desktop Development in the roaring 20s

2021-03-29 Thread Stephen Russell
Most of the group will remember Robert Green. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Choices-in-Desktop-Development An easy quick session that explains various opportunities available today. The statement Apps are Apps is so true. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container

Fwd: Webinar: Windows Desktop Development With .NET 5 - with Markus Egger - Wed 2/24 at 1:00 EST

2021-02-13 Thread Stephen Russell
With .NET 5 - with Markus Egger - Wed 2/24 at 1:00 EST To: Stephen Russell Ring Container Technology Join Us Wednesday, February 24 @ 1:00pm EST Dear Stephen, Save Wednesday, February 24th @ 1:00pm Eastern / 12:00pm Central / 10:00am Pacific for our next CODE Magazine State of .NET webinar, “Win

Re: sql server connection

2021-02-11 Thread Stephen Russell
Here is a powershell script example that will install the client on your workstation(s). https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Windows_Server_2019&p=mssql2019&f=4 I would skip ODBC at all costs and just use the client directly. On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:17 AM Eric Selje wrote: > Rafael, >

Re: Automation & Office 365

2021-01-15 Thread Stephen Russell
I saw this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-between-the-64-bit-or-32-bit-version-of-office-2dee7807-8f95-4d0c-b5fe-6c6f49b8d261 It lists the reason why you would choose 64/32 bit versions. I had to use this when we got newer Office and older SharePoint stuff no longer worked the

Re: MDI window theme github issue

2020-12-05 Thread Stephen Russell
> we may teach others. > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > Stephen > Russell > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2020 4:19 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: MDI window theme github issue > > It has

Re: MDI window theme github issue

2020-12-04 Thread Stephen Russell
some of the old look has been addressed. > > The child windows in .NET Core WinForms MDI still have the old Windows 7 > border. > This is because the problem is in the Windows code. > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Beh

Re: SourceSafe from within Foxpro

2020-12-04 Thread Stephen Russell
>From SS you can do a file compare as well. Allows you to see what the diff is between the control and your workstation. On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:31 AM Christof Wollenhaupt < chris...@wollenhaupt.org> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > This works fine on a PC at the location of a client who I support, w

Re: MDI window theme github issue

2020-12-03 Thread Stephen Russell
.NET 5 addressed this issue and brings modern visuals into a Win Forms app. That file picker looked like it was from Win95 days. It is supposed to now pull in the current version of Windows going forward. This was per Marcus Edger in a Code magazine video on .NET 5 about 2 weeks ago. On Thu, D

NF[ .net 5 conference]

2020-11-10 Thread Stephen Russell
. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: Free Visual Foxpro

2020-11-10 Thread Stephen Russell
VS is free to use and for a solo shop make money with. There are more features in the paid-for versions and those all tie to working in teams groups etc. For all of the Mac and Linx folk there is a VS Code app that is a very lean VS for creating code in but it will powershell/script the heck out

Re: Record width

2020-11-03 Thread Stephen Russell
I hope you are the winner. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 6:25 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > I've got a client who's main data table for their orders is over 2300 > wide for record length. > > Anybody seen any wider in their travels? > > > > -- > Th

Re: Do you have code in place for DST?

2020-11-02 Thread Stephen Russell
fault when stupid stuff like that happens. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 4:29 PM Ed Leafe wrote: > On Nov 2, 2020, at 16:18, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > > Who has to write programs that span time zones? Do you adjust against HQ > > time or UTC? > > Anything that is based

Do you have code in place for DST?

2020-11-02 Thread Stephen Russell
Who has to write programs that span time zones? Do you adjust against HQ time or UTC? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html

Re: COUNT FOR hangs on record locking, but SQL - SELECT COUNT(*) works with no issue. Why?

2020-10-26 Thread Stephen Russell
asking the indices, as long > as the FOR condition is equal to an indexkey. > BTW: since SQLServer got VFP's Rushmore logics, it should be the same there > too. > > > wOOdy > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: ProFox Im Auftrag von Stephen Russell >

Re: COUNT FOR hangs on record locking, but SQL - SELECT COUNT(*) works with no issue. Why?

2020-10-25 Thread Stephen Russell
t it use the header or > meta-data to know the record count rather than load the whole thing into > memory? That doesn't seem right. > > > On 10/24/2020 11:25 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > I just did a count(*) from one of our biggest tables. It took 2 min to > &

Re: COUNT FOR hangs on record locking, but SQL - SELECT COUNT(*) works with no issue. Why?

2020-10-24 Thread Stephen Russell
. it can only tell if a file has > changed, if at all (VFP). > > BTW, what exactly is "glTable600"? > > -- > Christof > > > On 24. Oct 2020, at 17:25, Stephen Russell > wrote: > > > > I just did a count(*) from one of our biggest tables. It took

Re: COUNT FOR hangs on record locking, but SQL - SELECT COUNT(*) works with no issue. Why?

2020-10-24 Thread Stephen Russell
I just did a count(*) from one of our biggest tables. It took 2 min to load it into memory the first time. SELECT count(*) cnt FROM [erplndb].[dbo].[glTable600] cnt 138,371,855 The second time I run this it only takes .03 seconds. The size of the table and index is a mere 364 gigs today.

Re: [NF] nice python code tricks

2020-09-28 Thread Stephen Russell
My employer is looking to do more in python code if applicable. I accept that as a challenge. On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:17 AM Ed Leafe wrote: > On Sep 28, 2020, at 10:14, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > > 10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code > > https://www.

[NF] nice python code tricks

2020-09-28 Thread Stephen Russell
10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-gEQdGVXbk -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text

Re: [NF] State of .NET webinar

2020-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
I believe that is correct. On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > This would take place on Wednesday, 26.August 17:00 UTC ( 13:00 EST / > 19:00 Germany) ?? > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: ProFox Im Auftrag von Stephen Russell > Gesendet:

[NF] State of .NET webinar

2020-08-17 Thread Stephen Russell
NpUR-2F1R0iCDI6-2BbXVoyFkOSA07aQfj8-2FaY-2Br680FEjkHl-2BtB1MSSJ6SIFDPev4boLT4X-2BtyRSsqACQNQt1K1IX-2Be9v2qQrDyqmbU4soNSBA1fSmV3EYFyiSJRxzy85ZsJl4-2FsYRgO3TqBjglyCNKVwLhwleLppMdNyXGZh-2FHzBraETqazMfV416BJ0a76x4xZdL-2FozOieGL4kkzQUvSgBQ-3D-3D -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakl

[NF] Curse and blessings of dynamic sql

2020-08-03 Thread Stephen Russell
Saw this on a video this morning and wanted to pass it along to you. http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text

Re: Task: Process thousands of records through a regular process -- multiple EXE runs to cut down processing time??

2020-08-01 Thread Stephen Russell
What is your bottleneck in the process, an update of the backend data ? Can your update or insert be made in groups of 100 or 1000 at a pass, instead of one at a time? Or do you need a key back for additional processing? On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:07 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolu

Re: X# and .NET Core

2020-07-31 Thread Stephen Russell
Q folk employees.RemoveAll(b => b.Location == ""); On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 6:13 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > To be honest, I never liked DotNet lambda expressions. This line makes > my eyes roll. > > > On 7/30/2020 2:17 P

Re: X# and .NET Core

2020-07-30 Thread Stephen Russell
o implement this with a UDC." > > as can be seen in this message thread" > > https://www.xsharp.info/forum/private-vfp/1278-scatter-dumping-a-data-row-to-an-object#9182* > * > > ** > * > * > *Matt Slay* > ** > > > On 2020-07-30 1:17 PM, Stephen Russell

Re: X# and .NET Core

2020-07-30 Thread Stephen Russell
Scan is an iteration through data,right? I would just use foreach() loop. Now how do you get your data into an object in X# I do not know. If you are filtering you should consider lamda expressions (x => x.ColumnName != 0).ToArray() On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:01 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < m

Re: [NF] .NET Core build to runtime 3.1.5 with SDK for 3.1.6 installed - Possible?

2020-07-28 Thread Stephen Russell
You can downgrade the version of core required in the project. Either way, you have to supply that in your installer. Your clients probably won't have it on thier machines. I'd consider using the M$ one because it will bring in the correct bootstraping you'll need. I only do web installs and no

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-24 Thread Stephen Russell
h On Behalf Of MB > > Software Solutions, LLC > > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:27 PM > > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > > Subject: Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .) > > > > On 7/23/2020 8:07 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> Pretty much for anything

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-24 Thread Stephen Russell
This is an actual test in my code: [TestMethod] public void custItemView() { String item = "351000287"; String VenItem = EFData.GetCustomerPartFromView(item); Assert.IsTrue(VenItem.Length > 0); } My function has a view of all items in ou

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-24 Thread Stephen Russell
solutions.com> wrote: > On 7/23/2020 8:07 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > Pretty much for anything that is repetitive in nature. All apps yes. I > > have the instances set to not allow homemade sql except for some of our > new > > stuff in R, or my certificate report

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-23 Thread Stephen Russell
all your CRUD? > > > On 7/23/2020 5:54 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > I only see it as testing a connection to a defined data source. You > > have creds that work for a positive test. You have creds that fail to > > notify you that no connection was made. > > &g

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-23 Thread Stephen Russell
out great. It's > > much easier to connect the UI to those processes. But my comment still > > stands: I bet less than 5% of VFP devs write unit tests in their apps. > > > > > > On 7/21/2020 8:09 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > Why not? &

Re: [SPAM] [SPAM] Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-22 Thread Stephen Russell
Whenever you go back into it for one reason or another, add a new test for that area you are working in. If all of your code is in screens or forms, you might be doing it wrong. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:55 AM Eric Selje wrote: > /It doesn't make sense to retrospectively create unit test for a

Re: [SPAM] Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-22 Thread Stephen Russell
DBT. Design by Test is how I work. My UI rarely does any voodoo for making things work. Been that way for almost 20 years now. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 7:59 AM Eric Selje wrote: > I may be biased here, having given the Unit Test talk at SW Fox and now > maintaining FoxUnit on GitHub, but to me

Re: [SPAM] Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-22 Thread Stephen Russell
You test success and expected failure. Your code lives in the business layer/object. In one prg you call all of that functionality one at a time to make sure it works, as expected. If a function receives a date as a parameter, pass in a bad date to validate it doesn't work. Over the life of you

Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-21 Thread Stephen Russell
omized Business Services, LLC (928) 580-6352 > >>> Dennis Schuette Primary: > >>> den...@cbsds.com > >>> 49 NW 130 Avenue Alternate: > >>> schuette.den...@gmail.com > >>> Great Bend, KS 67530 > >>> > >>> -Original Message-

Re: We are only as good as we are informed!

2020-07-20 Thread Stephen Russell
Is this an I intend to behave differently than what was coded 10+ years ago? On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:58 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Had a client complain about issues in their system that happened over a > month ago. > > WHERE'S THE NOTI

Re: [NF] I will .....

2020-07-17 Thread Stephen Russell
gt; Sent from my iPad > > > On 17 Jul 2020, at 17:07, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > > Alright, I'm not a priest, but I am a programmer. > > > > Confess to me your programming sins, and I shall absolve you. > > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen

[NF] I will .....

2020-07-17 Thread Stephen Russell
Alright, I'm not a priest, but I am a programmer. Confess to me your programming sins, and I shall absolve you. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain

[NF] Are they watching you?

2020-07-16 Thread Stephen Russell
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/15/google-sued-for-blatant-lies-about-user-privacy -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text

[NF] Less Filling or Tastes Great?

2020-07-10 Thread Stephen Russell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycx9hFGHog -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html

Re: [NF] Suggestions for DBA tools for MariaDB?

2020-07-10 Thread Stephen Russell
Why will you have to go to Enterprise? We are dumping enterprise on 3 servers with 13 instances and hundreds of dbs. Only keeping one server for BI capabilities. Saving us around 650K in licensing. Why do you need to push to Ent? On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:06 PM Vince Teachout wrote: > On 07

Re: AZURE and VFP

2020-06-27 Thread Stephen Russell
Azure is fairly feature rich with respect to what kind of VM you want to deploy. Windows of Linux many flavors of each and you can add on disk space as you see fit. Want to reduce your costs, place that VM in a cheaper area of the world compared to USA East coast. I am working on certifications

Re: Greg Reichert / GLRsoftware.com

2020-06-24 Thread Stephen Russell
I use the WayBackMachine in times like this. archive.org that is. :) https://web.archive.org/web/20111012092251/http://www.glrsoftware.com/index.asp On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 4:24 AM Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > Anybody knows what happened with Greg Reichert and his domain > glrsoftware.com? >

Re: SQLite

2020-06-23 Thread Stephen Russell
SQLite is not an RDMS. It isn't always on via an API like what you and I are familiar with. Each request is a new connection to the same db file. It can be used on very light machines like a raspberry PI. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:36 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwar

Re: Populating Microsoft Outlook address book using a list of emails from a CSV file

2020-05-27 Thread Stephen Russell
Can you import a list cab style still? I use to do it back in the day. On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:03 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Customer wants to pre-seed his Outlook contacts with a CSV list to save > him time later when actually emailin

Re: SQL Server Shared Management Objects (SMO)

2020-05-01 Thread Stephen Russell
Sorry and thanks. Just using SMO, you need to know that to do anything. On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 4:01 AM Alan Bourke wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, at 5:11 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > What do you want to do through SMO? > > It's actually Paul Newton who has the requ

Re: SQL Server Shared Management Objects (SMO)

2020-04-30 Thread Stephen Russell
What do you want to do through SMO? On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:38 AM Alan Bourke wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, at 4:16 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > What SMO does for you is also available via powershell. Because I have > the > > app written I don't work much in po

Re: SQL Server Shared Management Objects (SMO)

2020-04-30 Thread Stephen Russell
What SMO does for you is also available via powershell. Because I have the app written I don't work much in powershell for SQL Server analysis. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:58 AM Alan Bourke wrote: > > Paul > > There is no COM interface to SQL-SMO, so you would have to create a .NET > assembly wit

Re: SQL Server Shared Management Objects (SMO)

2020-04-29 Thread Stephen Russell
I have a huge application built in sometime 2009-10 for managing SQL Server stored procedures as well as submitting standard daily statements to the variety of servers and instances I manage. I don't know if you are going to be able to create all of the container objects that are necessary to work

Re: File sharing services

2020-04-24 Thread Stephen Russell
You could write your own api to publish to your customers' use. I write apis that move data and not files. Maybe you could create the API that was able to publish a file list from a secured folder and then a second one to receive a check list that identifies what documents they want to receive?

Re: Decompile FoxPro Windows 2.6?

2020-04-23 Thread Stephen Russell
Reporting was a PITA as I remember. On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:06 AM Roger Tremblay wrote: > I have used dosbox and it works very well when needing to run or compile > old > programs > > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan > Bour

Re: Office automation using VFP 10 64-bit version

2020-04-21 Thread Stephen Russell
Consider making the root of the XLM object singular, such as Customer with List as an element of it? On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:15 PM Tracy Pearson wrote: > For what I have been working on, it has been an Xml string that I can > process to and from a cursor with the XmlAdapter. > In C# I can pro

Re: Office automation using VFP 10 64-bit version

2020-04-21 Thread Stephen Russell
You can now do this I bet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=522&v=j0ng2Tp01Hc&feature=emb_title On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:54 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 4/20/2020 9:15 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > > You are able to use an OUT

Re: VFP6 and VFP9 Legacy Application Support Help

2020-02-05 Thread Stephen Russell
I have a friend at church and his company does the same thing as well as salvage, repair OEM equipment that is available for use right away. Sounds similar. On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:29 AM Eric Selje wrote: > A second for WhiteLight. By procuring a company like Rick's rather than an > individua

Re: [NF] Madman runs .NET Core application on Windows 3.11

2020-01-23 Thread Stephen Russell
I have made a lot of different applications with C# over the past 18 years and hands down .NET was superior to VB6. VB6 was so much closer to Access in how you created a project compared to .Net 1 & 2. The positive steps forward that M$ did in the .NET space since then make me laugh when you cond

Re: [NF] Blazor from Microsoft

2020-01-21 Thread Stephen Russell
The way I saw it was Silverlte fixed. You can get a server stack in NIX that you can maintain and control. There is a missing part to the mix as of last Nov. I can't remember what component that was but it was semi baked as of then. On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 5:36 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < m

Re: The Y2K Bug Returns: Revenge of the Kludge

2020-01-08 Thread Stephen Russell
< mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > What kind of a**hole uses just ONE digit for a year?!?!? > > On 1/8/2020 11:35 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > We got bit with a lot of hard coded functionality on our Lot #s because > of > > our use of a 1 digit year.

Re: The Y2K Bug Returns: Revenge of the Kludge

2020-01-08 Thread Stephen Russell
We got bit with a lot of hard coded functionality on our Lot #s because of our use of a 1 digit year. That was started in 2011 and nobody thought of an foul at 2020. ASNs to customers, MFG date on CofAs all fell under my control. Happy happy joy joy. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:11 AM Ted Roche w

Re: [NF] VFP function list status in X#

2019-12-10 Thread Stephen Russell
When I glanced over the functions it seems to me that you cannot have any non VFP data. All of the SQL query, insert, update delete was not applicable. Or was ai multitasking on it when I glanced at it? On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:51 AM Matt Slay wrote: > MB Software Solutions - I feel the same

Re: SQL Dump

2019-12-01 Thread Stephen Russell
one for all the ideas and advice, I will give them a try. > > Effectively what I am trying to create is a way to replicate a VFP DBC to > a SQL Database daily. > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Stephen > Russell > Sent: Friday, 29 Novemb

Re: SQL Dump

2019-11-29 Thread Stephen Russell
What incorrect answers these were. IN the DB you made in SQL Server you can import the data at SSIS speed. Rt click on the DB in the DB pane. Tasks and Import Data. >From there you tell it to use VFP data via your oledb engine. From there it will make all tables and indexes from VFP and import

Re: X# code for drag and drop

2019-11-21 Thread Stephen Russell
Yes today you can get a free version of just about every dev tool that M$ makes with only a few hold backs separating it from the pay version. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:19 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 11/19/2019 8:13 AM, Alan Bourke wrot

Re: File Sync

2019-11-21 Thread Stephen Russell
Power shell scripts out there are easy to find. Just a thought. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:39 AM Chris Davis wrote: > Can anyone recommend a free and simple file syncing program to mirror a > folder on a server to a local folder (files and subfolders). > > I had been using freefilesync / robocopy

Re: X# code for drag and drop

2019-11-18 Thread Stephen Russell
Back they M$ gave the codes out in India allowing them to install and learn. Co-workers at St. Jude said that as recent transplants to America. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:52 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > I thought you said INDIA, not CHINA.

Re: X# code for drag and drop

2019-11-14 Thread Stephen Russell
that sold this unit to another owner. On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 9:44 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Um, was VB.NET even around 20 years ago? I think not. > > #FakeNews > > > On 11/14/2019 10:15 AM, Stephen Russell

Re: X# code for drag and drop

2019-11-14 Thread Stephen Russell
of Java and C. > > > > In other News, the Gates Foundation is spending a fortune supporting > > technical advancement in India. > > > > just sayin' > > > > On 13-Nov-2019 2:28 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> Not sure if you want to implement X# or

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2019-11-13 Thread Stephen Russell
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