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Having looked through the crap below and lurked in the lounge for a while I'm almost willing to brave the article thingy. I know I'm a fairly lousy writer and the ideas (2) I have are not so much coding genius as ways of getting around problems that I have run against in everyday work. Titles are:
How to use SSIS to load a csv file with variable column numbers and repeating column names
How to launch Clickonce deployed apps using the command line.
Question is should I attempt these or are they a waste of time. There is no revelotuniary code involved just convoluted thinking.
[edit]Oh and where is the template that was around, I will NOT use the wizard - talk about an invitation to lose your man points [\edit]
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If you think its something worthy you spent a night on and it solved some issue, i suggest do post it! 
Btw you dont need to invent a space-ship before writing article...am working on couple too dont tell anybody 
Do rate the reply, if it helps or even if it doesnot, because it helps the members to know, what solved the issue. Thanks.
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I've been mucking around with Script.Net[^]. My intention, eventually (or never, as the case may be), is to provide my applications with a scriptable interface in the Excel/VBA style.
Of course, me being me, I came up with a bunch of questions - which would take me decades to solve - which I reckon an article by any-one of the gurus here could have done before breakfast, specifically:
-How to provide a consistent and usable object model
-How to properly integrate scripts in a coherent way
-How to implement a script execution context and security model with a nod towards "trust" and signing
-How to be flexible enough to accommodate different scripting languages - I'm thinking about the DLR here: allow users to script in their language of choice (Iron: Python, Scheme, Lisp, Ruby etc etc)
-How to provide an inbuilt IDE for scripting (personally I'd just bug leppie for an xacc.ide component )
-How to stop a bad script from breaking your application - offering roll-back facilitates for when the user makes a boo boo.
-How to make any such framework flexible enough to be cross-application
-And I had some other ones, which I can't now remember.
Anyway, I thought it might make for an interesting read/project for those of you with the skill/time/know-how especially as we head towards the Dynamic .Net era.
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Good idea. I implemented ActiveX scripting support, Javascript and VBScript, for a product similar in scope and intent to Powerpoint about 7 years ago, a large and fascinating project. There's no way I could write an article on it now as I've forgotten most of what was involved but I can recommend downloading the source of the Microsoft ActiveX Ccontrol Test Container. It implements pretty much every ActiveX container side interface ever concieved and the source, amazingly for MS, is pretty readable and well laid out. In terms of object model I'd say stick as close as reasonably possible to the way Office does it, Application, Workspace and Document objects. I can't even concieve of how you'd make anything reusable across aplications and I have no idea how hosting for Python etc works but I'd definitely be interested to find out.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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martin_hughes wrote: How to provide an inbuilt IDE for scripting (personally I'd just bug leppie for an xacc.ide component )
Or you could try the new VSX Shell? Overkill probably but at least you've got a good base to work from, plus if it was completed then it'd be a great IDE to work in  . Not that I want to criticise Leppie but at the moment it's still very much his code and he'd have to do all the work on integrating it and he always seems to be spending his time going off writing LISP these days 
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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Ed.Poore wrote: Or you could try the new VSX Shell?
It's quite nice... but when your scripting environment dwarfs your application by several orders of magnitude, you have to take pause for thought
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martin_hughes wrote: but when your scripting environment dwarfs your application by several orders of magnitude
Hmmm, I suppose but you'd actually be putting in less effort using something like VSX because that's what it's been designed to do.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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Any takers?
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If I login and click on My Artitles....how do I EDIT an existing article ? The article was also submitted without even allowing me to finish the article. also, how do I SAVE an in-process article ? You need to review the simplicity of the Codeplex and MSDN code submission application for some ideas.
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First off, this is probably in the wrong forum. I believe this is better suited for the Suggestions/Site bugs, their you might be able to get a better answer then what I am about to tell you.
If the article was edited by a CodeProject staff member, then you cannot edit the article through he site, you will have to email a site representative to request a specific change to be made. If the article has not been professionally edited, then you should be able to see a 'Modify' link on the top right of the article if you are logged in. Once their, their is a nice wizard to guide you through the process of editing the article. If the article was half way through the submission wizard and then the wizard crashed, then that is a bug to point out in the forum mentioned previously. If the article has been deleted because it was not up to the standards of the CodeProject once submitted, then you cannot edit deleted articles.
Codeplex and MSDN submission applications are for an entirely different audience then the CodeProject.
[Edit]
[If you want to save an article that is in process, you have two options: A) Save the article on your hard drive for when it is complete and up to CodeProject standards; B) If the article is already up to CodeProject standards, then you can submit it and then edit the article with processes mentioned previously)
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my homepage Oracle Studios[ ^]
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I'm going to start a new project - a small (but very user friendly) accounting software. I'm looking for some general tips, advices and experience - mostly technical. Can you point me to some articles, e-books?
btw. I'm not a noob, I just want to go with the best practice I can find.
Thank you.
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Lju2 wrote: I'm going to start a new project - a small (but very user friendly) accounting software. I'm looking for some general tips, advices and experience - mostly technical. Can you point me to some articles, e-books?
This forum is for people to request or suggest ideas for articles. It's not for programming questions. Your question would be better placed in the 'General Discussions' forum.
Paul Marfleet
"No, his mind is not for rent
To any God or government"
Tom Sawyer - Rush
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You asked the perfect question and I have the exact program you are looking for. However, because I am using the program/code in a National programming competition I can't release anything 
The one I wrote:
-8,000 lines of code
-300 hours to create
-handles vendors->POs->Invoices->Check Register->Reporting->User Management->Check sheet printing, etc
I am bummed that I cant share more of the program, but if you need assistance just post back. I might be able to help a tiny bit.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my homepage Oracle Studios[ ^]
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Have you consulted any books, articles before developing your application?
Followed any other design, already made?
Thanks
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My accouting program uses WPF and as such I looked at various reference books on WPF including: Pro WPF, Pro C# with .NET 3.5 Framework, and a few others.
As for the accounting aspect, the entire program was written from scratch with only my ideas to work from. I did not consult any reference material for the creation of this program. I did however get more fine-tuned accounting details with regards to the accounting requirements for the program from other people.
As for the design, my application is one of a kind, and I have not seen another application similar to it in the market.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my homepage Oracle Studios[ ^]
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I haven't seen many articles on CP concerning advanced numerical methods, such as integral transforms, sparse matrix inversion, solving partial differential equations, high precision function approximations, specialized statistical functions, etc. I can reorganize and submit some of my stuff, since I've recently been converting a lot of my older code to C# as well as doing some benchmarking.
Is there any interest? Or would I be wasting my time?
The PetroNerd
Walt Fair, Jr.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
modified on Friday, April 11, 2008 10:25 PM
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This would be of huge interest to me. Bring it on - please.
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OK, I'll start with some Laplace transform stuff I've been tweaking lately for a software update.
Where can I find the submission criteria? I found where to submit, but I don't see exactly how the material is supposed to be organized, etc.
Or maybe I'm just blind ...
The PetroNerd
Walt Fair, Jr.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Never mind. I think I found an article about articles. Just goes to show that, indeed, I was blind.
The PetroNerd
Walt Fair, Jr.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Dude. Read the forum name and guidelines. Does this look like frickin' ComponentSource.com to you?
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Let me guess, he wanted code for an Inventory Program? 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Paul Conrad wrote: Let me guess, he wanted code for an Inventory Program?
Give the man a none exploding cigar.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Give the man a none exploding cigar.
Go ahead and give me an exploding one to pass off to one of my buddies
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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