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Neither weird nor wonderful so I'll dump it here for your amusement.
One of our devs mentioned he had some really nasty requirements WPF on SQL server...
Open a dialog and gather filtered data from 4 tables and display in a pivoted grid.
Show YTD, projected to the end of year and 3 additional projection years.
Show reference values from one of the source tables
Accept input from the user for each projected period
Default the user input to the reference values
Do not allow the user to accept the default values - insure the user inputs fresh information. Zero is a valid input value.
The last 2 lines got rejected - emphatically!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Default the user input to the reference values
Do not allow the user to accept the default values - insure the user inputs fresh information. Zero is a valid input value.
Hint text (like a search box)?
or if you like fancy graphics hint bubbles?
or even better. have an animated puppy or paper clip slide down the screen and suggest what to type. Who wouldn't love that?
Not saying the show-default-but-force-user-to-retype idea is ever good, (monkey see ...)
just sayin' there are ways to do it.
(and today I'm in a "that's what you want? OK, that's what you'll get" mood.)
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My usual mode is "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.". It's one of the few things that can actually convince people to stop and think. Some people. Sometimes.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Oh it can be done alright, the dev had already mapped out and possibly even built it, I heard when some additional bloody silly requirement was proposed that was going to impact this.
How do you teach a junior dev to say no to a users request?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: How do you teach a junior dev to say no to a users request?
Stand between them?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: How do you teach a junior dev to say no to a users request?
Why does he need to? Can every Bob and Todd call him and tell him what to do?
Should there not be a limited number of people who are responsible for making any requests on the customer's side and also a limited number of (senior) people who take those requests and react to them? Have the juniors sit on your lap while doing that, and let them give their opinions after the customer has hung up, but don't leave them alone with the problem.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Should there not be a limited number of people who are responsible for making any requests
There is only one!
Problem is the dev is not really a junior but has not the skill of telling the user she is an idjit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: she is an idjit
You know that that is useless in most cases. Instead, he should agree with her. And then nitpick away at everything that makes the idea so idiotic in the first place. Bonus points when he manages to wrap up the nitpicking in false praise as well. It must be her idea to leave everything as it is in the end. Extra bonus points if you can get her to try to talk you out of it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: How do you teach a junior dev to say no to a users request?
Where is the junior dev's manager/lead engineer? It is this person's responsibility to handle this, not the junior dev.
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In this case the dev is not junior just does not know how to say no! I on the other hand have no compunction telling the user the requirements are really silly. However I asked the dev to tell the user and made sure he did.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm just trying to picture the error message:
"Unable to process because you have used our carefully selected option defaults - please use some other values instead and we'll try again."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Nope, can't see it how do you tell a user that the defaults we have supplied are not acceptable, without looking like a complete idiot.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hopefully you're using a cool pivot grid control, say from DevExpress. While I use DevExpress exclusively for WinForm development, I am continually impressed with how flexible their grid controls are. I imagine their WPF controls are equally good.
That is, once I figure out where and how to actually set various options and overrides!
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We use Telerik and yes they have a pivot grid but I have never actually spent the time to decipher the configuration requirements for it. I also tend to use a treelistview as my secondary grid tool backed by a specific model based on the UI requirements rather that the database.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hi,
Your sound card problem has nothing to do with Windows 10 or PNP. The problem is that MSI and other third-party vendors do not provide perpetual device driver support. In other words... your MSI (rebranded) Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 does not have a device driver for Windows 10.
There are some unofficial device drivers available if your card is using the Audigy 10k1 or 10k2 DSP. I've been using the sound blaster device driver written by Eugene Gavrilov for nearly a decade on some of my older workstations. I'm not sure the Kx driver will work with your card... I believe your card may be using the 20k1 DSP chipset.
kX Audio Driver[^]
I highly recommend avoiding rebranded hardware... while MSI no longer writes device drivers for your hardware... the Creative Technology[^] version has maintained Windows 10 drivers and it just reached EOL back in Q4 2015.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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In some cases, the major difference between the own-brand and the rebranded version is the PCI Vendor and device IDs. I assume that your MSI sound-blaster card is listed as an "unknown device"; if so, you might be able to extract the PCI vendor and device IDs from the device's properties, and modify the INF file of the own brand to recognize your device.
The problem with this is that you lose any additional functionality that MSI may have placed on their boards. If MSI's board provides a subset of the Sound Blaster's capabilities, it may not work at all. Use at your own risk!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I assume that your MSI sound-blaster card is listed as an "unknown device"
I don't own any MSI devices. Did you mean to respond to the original poster?
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: you might be able to extract the PCI vendor and device IDs from the device's properties, and modify the INF file of the own brand to recognize your device
That old technique does not always work. This technique will not work if the driver is part of a digitally-signed catalog[^]. Moving forward you can expect that Microsoft Windows may require all audio drivers to be WHQL signed[^] because of DRM requirements[^].
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: If MSI's board provides a subset of the Sound Blaster's capabilities, it may not work at all. Use at your own risk!
I believe that Creative Technology began checking the PCI vendor ID over a decade ago in their audio drivers. Note that I may be wrong... as I have not stepped through the driver in WinDbg in a very very long time.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Yes, I meant to respond to the OP. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Install the drivers (at least, if not the extra software too) and see if it gets detected after that.
My X-Fi worked just fine in the W10 (for values of fine).
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Thanks for the input! 
GenJerDan wrote: My X-Fi worked just fine in the W10 (for values of fine).
Well, that's the thing...the card in question is working fine in the older W10 system. When time allows, I'll bring it back up and check what drivers it's using...as far as I remember, I didn't have to install anything originally for it to work from a fresh install of W10.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Read the rules at the top. There is a forum for this.
(The rules apply to everyone, not just newcomers. )
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Have you been to the hardware/devices forum? The last post was 2 months ago...nobody would see a post there...and it's certainly not a programming question.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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If it came with the mobo I suspect it probably is locked to it, although in the past when I've seen that done they'd generally do something weird (eg the card and its slot used a backwards PCIe connector) so you couldn't actually plug it into anyone else's board.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks for the response!
Dan Neely wrote: If it came with the mobo I suspect it probably is locked to it,
I'm thinking this may be the case which is why I went shopping locally for a new one...the local chains have all quit keeping them in stock...plenty of video cards but not one sound card! 
If indeed that is the case, it's the first time I've encountered a plug-in component for a specific mobo maker.
I suppose I'll have to order one online, or hit one of he specialty shops around town. Of course, there is still the possibility that there is a problem with the slot but I have no way of knowing without spending a little change...and waiting.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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