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I really hate using abandoned 3rd-party code, especially when it was abandoned a significant number of years ago. Nobody has been maintaining it on GitHub (the last update was 2012).
There are compiler definitions for .Net 1.n support (I think it's safe to remove this code, even as early as 2012), and there are references to something called Microsoft.VSAEngine, something that was deprecated in 2005 (!!).
I downloaded the source code so I could trim out some of the chaff/fat and leave only what we need, as well as to more tightly couple it to our DAL/BLL arrangement.
Oh yeah, as with most open-source code, it's so poorly documented (from a user standpoint) as to be almost unusable, and there are no comments in the code stating WHY a given class even exists.
Final note, - I haven't found anything that's free and that is a viable alternative to this code set. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I already know about it (and others)
Can't use it, because a) it's a commercial product, and b) it seems to want you to send site errors to their own cloud db. The cost notwithstanding, we absolutely CANNOT do item b.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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When I was young, a cafe in England would sell you coffee in two forms: black and white. If it was posh and Italian they might also do a cappuccino, too, but you wouldn't go to places like that.
Yes, it tasted like mud and it came in a pyrex cup but it was wet and warm and it was all so EASY!
"Black coffee, please?"
"Here you go, pal. Forty pence, please"
Job done.
A few years on, I was at a railway station and say a coffee stall.
"Hi mate, black, please?"
"What do you want? Espresso? Moccaccino? Frapuccino? Crapuccino? Americano? Latino? Chocamoccacccino? (insert five hundred other made up Italian words here)"
"Just a coffee, please. Black."
"Yes, but do you want? Espresso? Moccaccino? Frapuccino? Crapuccino? Americano? Latino? Chocamoccacccino? ..."
"Don't worry, mate, I've got a train to catch."
Not sure that I've had a coffee since.
Nowadays, this is the pattern everywhere from cafes to bars to coffee shops to food stalls, except that list of varieties has grown to the length of the Great Wall of China and can probably be seen from space. The pyrex is now polystyrene and the price tag now resembles a national debt. Oh yeah, and the waiters are now called barristas (which always sounds like a failed lawyer to me).
Everywhere I go, I seem to be stuck in a queue behind some so-and-so whose order for caffeinated filth keeps me waiting for half-an-hour as I attempt to buy a beer or a sandwich. It's starting to get on my nerves.
Is this fad for evermore elaborate coffees a global catastrophe or a particularly English disease?
And when, oh, when will it end?
P.S. A coffee shop near my office now advertises that their bacon is infused with coffee! THE BEAN-HEADS ARE EVEN MESSING WITH OUR BACON! THIS HAS TO END. NOW.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: which always sounds like a failed lawyer to me
They're actually failed art school students.
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Good point! I stand corrected.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: They're actually failed art school students.
So like, that Austrian guy from around the start of the century?
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Nah, he had the silly moustache but he didn't have a silly beard, stretchy ears and tattoos to go with it.
And he wore socks.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I believe he was actually a failed architect, I don't think he got into art school. Don't quote me on it though.
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Close. He got rejected from art school multiple times, and it was suggested to him he instead go into architecture.
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Yeah, he drew nice pictures of buildings. He just couldn't draw people. Makes you wonder how many 'failed Arts students' are marching in the streets today. Kind of disconcerting.
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Just give me a freakin cup of damn coffee.
It is what it is because of people like this[^]
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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Two days to learn to make coffee?
I guess it's a new twist on "Learn Java in a Week"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I would like to see an Abbot and Costello skit on making coffee in a modern coffee shop
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Barista coffee, hyping the traditional coffee... 
And coffee in sacks? 
Cabrales Coffee
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ahhh yes, the good old days ... 
I'd rather be phishing!
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and since when has coffee got to be 'genuine Italian'. When did Italy start growing coffee beans and become the international authority on how it is made?
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Dennis Leary was of much the same opinion back in '97: Denis Leary on Coffee [Lock N Load] - YouTube[^] NOT SAFE FOR WORK in any way, shape or form. Lots of swearing ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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For this topic I think lots of swearing is in order.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Like everything Denis Leary has said, it was funnier when Bill Hicks said it first.
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On the other side...[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I keep it simple. I have finally devolved down to the simplest scenario. Grind the coffee coarse (has to be a conical type grinder, that's one thing that can't be skimped on, though they aren't expensive), pour it into a mason jar, pour in the just below boiling water, put the lid on. Wait 2 minutes, stir. Put some half-n-half in the still warm cup to warm up. Wait six minutes, pour through a filter into the cup.
It's super-simple and you can make it a cup at a time, and it's really good. If you break the jar it's a couple bucks probably to replace. I used to use a press but this works even better and it's far less twitchy and breakable.
Explorans limites defectum
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If it took more than one sentence it ain't simple. It's your ritual.
Here's simple:
- Put finally ground coffee (pre-ground or otherwise)
- Add boiling water
- Stir - when it settles, drink.
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And when you get through the list of ...cino's you need to decide on the size of the coffee you want I refuse to try and list the variants.
I have not bought a coffee from a stall/cafe for decades and I used to be a 5 cup a day person.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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