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I thought this might be good place to post this. Please let me know if I'm posting in the wrong place. I'm developing my very first software for a medical research group. The software itself is not overly complex, its basically a front for connecting to a database. Not the hardest thing to do I admit, but I'm finally getting my feet wet in programming since graduating college (B.S. Computer Engineering).
Anyhow, said group is going to pay me for my time and effort for the program. But thus far its been a very informal situation. My day job is to be the group's office administrator, fellowship coordinator and receptionist (don't ask...it pays my bill and is helping me through grad school right now). I'm not completely naive, and my concern is should I have a contract in place? If so, what types of terms would be reasonable? I imagine this program will need to be updated with a new version at some point in time (the researchers are having a hard time making up their mind what the "vision" of the program is)...and should I be rightfully concerned that without a contract that I'm locking myself into years of maintaining this software without additional pay. I completely trust and respect the researchers...but at the end of the day, I know it comes down to how much in research budget they have left and friendships be darned.
And then the next question is does this mean that I'm a self-employed person contracting myself out? Or would it make more sense to be my own company? Are there any pros and/or cons to each?
First time free lancing software developing...any suggestions so I don't end getting bamboozled? Thanks!
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Hi All,
Does anyone know abt how to avoid Postback in a webpage using Adobe Flex2??? instead of usual Ajax. need some code 4 reference. Kindly help
Regards,
Yogesh J.
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For a start, I would post this in the relevant section. This one's headed Work and Training Issues. Head on over the the Web Development forum.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that."
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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in message board when we had a anwer for our quesion ,,it send an email to our mail box...i'm using yahoo...in that mesage there are a link to reply.
problem occur there..when we just cliking on that..it will open new internet explorer...i dont have to reply that time..i just close that window without to load that( i don't let to open) i close that...then many internet explorer
windows are openning like loop..we cant stop that..it happen last our memory stuck...it's not good....
tell me plz what problem...have practice on my problem see whether happen or not.
don't forget to reply me.
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"I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you."
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What's the point in replying to messages as much as 9 months old???
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I have recently been asked about the feasibility of custom coding word templates so some buisness operations would be done when the word documents created from these templates were opened or untill that task in the creation of the document was properly started. Given the usage was strictly internal to a company and selective partners, I see no reason why not. However I can not say I see anyone custom coding assemblies (DLL's). Visual Studio Office Tools has been around for a number of years. If this was the best thing since sliced bread I think I would have seen a little usage, but no, nothing. So I have to ask why not?
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I guess most people put code into VBA and use that. Policies block out users from the Macro menu, so they can't edit the code.
I've even seen it done in enterprise content management systems.
I think it depends also on what you're trying to do.
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: Visual Studio Office Tools has been around for a number of years. If this was the best thing since sliced bread I think I would have seen a little usage, but no, nothing. So I have to ask why not?
because the tools used to suck... but the new VSO 2005 is great, especially for Excel work. The Office 12 stuff is supposed to be a lot better.
I did a lot of work with Word back when it used WLL (Word Link Libraries), which were basically just C Dlls renamed. This was back in the Word 6 days, after that they abandoned WLL and moved to VBA.
The one Office product that most people wanted to customize was Outlook, but it was a nightmare of COM pain to try and write addins.
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I got laid off last year from a 15 year mainframe job, and have been studying C++ with WIN32 and MFC since then. I started learning C# with .NET 2.0 recently, and have reached a fork in the road of my self learning. I read what I could about MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD certifications on MSDN, and bought VS 2005 with MSDN Pro subscription. So, I would prefer to go forward with .NET 2.0 learning than backwards.
Would becoming certified really prove to help me? With so many jobs in my area requiring a BS in CS and x+ years real work experience, I feel I need something to prove that I have ability, but see the MS certifications as being rather platform specific. I am also not sure whether I should take the web or application developer route.
I got into the mainframe stuff after it had really peaked (airline reservation systems and online credit card authorization processing). The market value of that kind of programming has pretty much died, due to mergers and the fact that the work can be done in India.
So, I want to learn stuff that is more on the leading edge, but am wondering if web programming has matured.
A secondary question would be if anyone knows if there are any organizations in Silicon Valley that help with such career decisions and bridge the gap between an individual and the various companies that are hiring?
Thanks.
-- modified at 16:07 Monday 25th September, 2006
Oh, I also don't understand why one would need 2-3 years experience developing web applications (for the MCDP - Web developer one). If you have on the job experience already, you either already know the material or have been doing things another way (like Java). Wouldn't a certification be similar to a degree from a school? How would one even get that first job and then decide later that have a certification would matter over their job experience?
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Help from Visual Studio .net is not working. Can any one help me out.
Thanks in advance
Sampath
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I think you will need to be a little more specific. Is it not installing? Have you looked at the installer logs? What OS are you installing on? Is it just not running? It is hard to read your mind from where i am sitting, so any additional info will help us to help you out. 
Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS
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I thought I sensed trouble in the force!!
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool"
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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hi,
iam working with VC++ ,eVC++ and c#.net(window programming)
these languages are have demand or not in future.
Thanks
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Each of those can have many difference markets for use. There are alot of programs that still use VC++ and C# is going strong now too. I do not know much about the embedded VC++ market, but you should be able to find work with any of those languages. Remember there was a ton of work for people that knew that old language COBOL in 1999 and 2000. If VC++ and C# had no demand in the future what would you think would have a better chance? The languages that you use now should be fine.
Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS
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Hi Prem,
Y u are worried about the future of language? remember 1 thing that the computer will be there till thje end of the world and as per human nature he will keep growing as per time so if u r working vth such languages it may u vll go 4 others in the future. For now i can say that VC++ and c# has very good market. So don't worry
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remember 1 thing that the computer will be there till thje end of the world and as per human nature he will keep growing as per time so if u r working
I am a little worried about that comment, they said the same about million other products that have now fallen by the wayside!! Just because the computer may be around for another 10 years or so. It does not necessarily mean the demand for programmers will be high.
I think, that if you're wondering about the demand for the future, is it is best to keep to a platform neutral language, C++ , but also it entirely depends what you end up working as. Computer landguages and use tend to be product/market/platform specific.
I for one am impressed by the recent increase in Javascript that is encroaching in the market, where interpretted languages is enjoying a slight surge again!!
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool"
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
My Website || My Blog
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Hi guys,
I am thinking of taking MCTS (all of the three Web,Windows and Distributed flavours).
Now, is it worth investing time/money in MCSD.NET as well as MCTS or just do MCTS?
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MCSD.NET is for .NET 1.1 while the MCTS using .NET 2.0. Do you think that it is better for your career to have 1.1 or 2.0 or both?
For me, I am heading to use .NET 2.0 so that MCTS route is what I am going. Of course on the way I did finish up my MCSD.NET, because I has started that before .NET 2.0 was out.
Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS
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Hi ,
I am supposed to develop a web application in .Net 2.0, which should convert a file of any print support type to TIFF, JPEG, PDF and Text format on demand.
Please suggest me how can accomplish this task.
Thanks and Regards,
Raj.
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Hello,
I have an application in Visual C++ and it was written using VS .NET 2003.
This application is using classes from MFC.
I have the following questions:
1. I want to compile and run this application using Visual C 2005 Express Edition. It is possible?
Because from what I've read I've seen that Express Edition doesn't have support
for MFC and can be used only for applications written for framework 2.0
I've tried to install Microsoft Platform SDK, but I didn't obtained any results.
It seems that this SDK brings some MFC libraries but nothing that I need.
In conclusion I want to know for sure if it's possible to use Express Edition for the development of application above?
2. I've tried to compile the code with Visual C 2005 Professional Edition but
I had some errors. This wouldn't be a problem if don't have to work in same time
with some guys which are using VS 2003.
I have to work in paralel at least for a period on the same sources with different people
some in VS 2005 and others in 2003.
There is a setting or some way to force VS 2005 compiler to run as a VS 2003 compiler?
Thx!
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dstefan82 wrote: This application is using classes from MFC.
I have the following questions:
1. I want to compile and run this application using Visual C 2005 Express Edition. It is possible?
No. MFC is not included in the Express Editions...
"I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you."
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Hello everyone, i was asked in an interview which one would i choose- Win32 or .Net?? can anyone tell me how to answer the question and how to justify the answer.. thank u..
vijay
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That would depend entirely upon the problem.
There's no easy answer. The best you can do is know both systems and understand when you should use either of them. That's what your interviewer was trying to find out, if you knew enough about both.
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any one who known software requirment sepecifiation of airport restaurant management system
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