The other issue outsourcers often face is that they just agree to anything their clueless client requests, THEN start to insist in online forums that they be given solutions to impossible demands. Like these:
Question How can I send email to 100000 persons?
Hello
A website with hundreds of thousands of user-Suppose,
how can I send a mail to website's users duration 1 hour
what's the solution?
or
Problem in Displaying Huge data
Hi all,
I am trying to display 77000 records from Oracle Database to .NET DataGrid. So it is not displaying and getting Application Server Error.
Using OLEDB i did. Is there any way for solving this problem
Thanks
Murali
or
Simply, I just want to create a folder browser dialog in asp.net.
Well, let me explain it. A customer order a list of picture to be printed. I want to use something like folder browser dialog to chose a folder and then search if these picture exist in this folder. Then I'll copy all these picture into a new folder (called Printed_Picture). Picture in Printed_Picture folder will be printed.
<input type="file" /> control is used to choose a file not a folder.
or
How to create and delete an appointment in outlook using asp.net
I am looking for code wherein I can create and delete an appointment from asp.net code
or
Hi All!!
I want to create exe file of Asp.Net C# web project so that i can deploy it on any computer. Please guide me how can i do that?and what will be the requirements to deploy it on other computer having no asp.net?
Please guide me!!
or
i m using mozilla fire fox n looking for a full path of posted file from fileUpload control of asp
string filepath= fileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName;
but
filepath only holds the file name.. no path...............
helpp plzzzzzzzzzz
( as IE gives the full path, people who ask this, invariably have found that their code works fine when the server and client are the same machine, and are writing server side code that needs to access the client side files by path using the file system )
or
Dialog Box(created using InputBox function) is hidden behind web form, Pls help
I have created a inputbox for user to login when my web page(.aspx) is loaded. This is whats happening when i run the application..
Internet explorer opens up and waits before loading the web form, only to realise that my inputbox is hidden behind, so i have to drag the dialog(internet exporer) away then i can see the input/dialog box.
How do i make it appear in front of the web page.
This is my code:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim strPasswd As String
If Not IsPostBack Then
strPasswd = InputBox("Enter the password please:")
End If
End Sub
thanks
As you can see, I could go on forever, especially about requests that ignore the server/client seperation in a website. The basic issue is, if someone has no idea what they are doing, they will agree to anything the client asks, and only later find out that what they've agreed to, is not even possible. Yet another reason to deal with professionals, not the cheapest guy who happens to have a web connection.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Devaluing our profession
Check out this guy:
urgent help on book system
hi ppl,
i'm lookin for some web application for library system or book keeping.
my boss wants me to develop such a system for the office. does anyone
of you have such a system or can help me in building such a system.
the reason my boss wants it to be a web application because it'll not
be necessary to install the application on each PC. just a simple
link at the internet browser and the application opens up.
But i don't know a single thing about book keeping book management or
library system. if someone of you has such a system or
have developed such a system please be kind enough to help me.
Thanks in advance.
I replied:
ROTFL - your boss is an idiot. Why would he ask you do to this, if you're not able to do it ? I'd look for another job.
If you know how to program web applications, then you should be able to ask your boss what he wants and write it. If not, then tell him it's not your job to write web applications ( I hope it isn't, if you don't know how ), and that it's cheaper to buy something than to pay your wage while you dither around trying to learn.
and his basic response was
anyways i'm a newbie at web applications that's y askin for help. buthave to do somethin to save my job.
The question is, if managers think they can grab an office junior and tell them their job depends on their writing the accounting system for the company in C#, if this guy succeeds at all, it's because people online write it for him. I feel bad for him, I mean, it's easy to tell someone to leave their job, but life is not that simple. However, if he gets his way, then the boss has learned that he doesn't need to pay developers at all, someone on minimum wage with a web connection can write professional software nowadays, right ? Of course, it could never work out that way, but, that's the attitude that is being fostered. Development is just an office job, unskilled, easily farmed out. And it's not.
urgent help on book system
hi ppl,
i'm lookin for some web application for library system or book keeping.
my boss wants me to develop such a system for the office. does anyone
of you have such a system or can help me in building such a system.
the reason my boss wants it to be a web application because it'll not
be necessary to install the application on each PC. just a simple
link at the internet browser and the application opens up.
But i don't know a single thing about book keeping book management or
library system. if someone of you has such a system or
have developed such a system please be kind enough to help me.
Thanks in advance.
I replied:
ROTFL - your boss is an idiot. Why would he ask you do to this, if you're not able to do it ? I'd look for another job.
If you know how to program web applications, then you should be able to ask your boss what he wants and write it. If not, then tell him it's not your job to write web applications ( I hope it isn't, if you don't know how ), and that it's cheaper to buy something than to pay your wage while you dither around trying to learn.
and his basic response was
anyways i'm a newbie at web applications that's y askin for help. buthave to do somethin to save my job.
The question is, if managers think they can grab an office junior and tell them their job depends on their writing the accounting system for the company in C#, if this guy succeeds at all, it's because people online write it for him. I feel bad for him, I mean, it's easy to tell someone to leave their job, but life is not that simple. However, if he gets his way, then the boss has learned that he doesn't need to pay developers at all, someone on minimum wage with a web connection can write professional software nowadays, right ? Of course, it could never work out that way, but, that's the attitude that is being fostered. Development is just an office job, unskilled, easily farmed out. And it's not.
Deleting posts/GIVE ME THE CODE
This morning someone asked this:
file uploade component
hi
i have a image component and a file uploade componnet and a command button componen;i want when i select image withe file upload and clic the button the picther load in the image copmponnet.plees help me.
tanks/
So I replied:
You need to do several things.
1 - the user needs to select an image
2 - the user needs to push the button
3 - the page needs to post back
4 - you need to save the image somewhere
5 - you need to send the page back with the source of the image control being set to where-ever you saved the image.
You can save it in the file system, under the application root ( use Server.MapPath to find the file system equivalent ), or to a database, and then you'd need to write a page which returns the bytes of the image and the correct MIME type, taking the id of an image on the URL, and set the control to that.
His answer was:
i need sorce code a sorce code in the visule stadio asp.net c#
While the task seems like something a learner would do to learn, as opposed to unskilled paid work, it appears that it's either paid work or homework, because he doesn't want to know how to do it, or explore my answer, he just wants the code. I answer:
Why do you need it ? What are you trying to do ? Which bit are you stuck on ?
And he responds by deleting all his posts. I guess he'll see if someone on the MSDN forums will just do his work without asking him to show any signs of intelligence or comprehension.
file uploade component
hi
i have a image component and a file uploade componnet and a command button componen;i want when i select image withe file upload and clic the button the picther load in the image copmponnet.plees help me.
tanks/
So I replied:
You need to do several things.
1 - the user needs to select an image
2 - the user needs to push the button
3 - the page needs to post back
4 - you need to save the image somewhere
5 - you need to send the page back with the source of the image control being set to where-ever you saved the image.
You can save it in the file system, under the application root ( use Server.MapPath to find the file system equivalent ), or to a database, and then you'd need to write a page which returns the bytes of the image and the correct MIME type, taking the id of an image on the URL, and set the control to that.
His answer was:
i need sorce code a sorce code in the visule stadio asp.net c#
While the task seems like something a learner would do to learn, as opposed to unskilled paid work, it appears that it's either paid work or homework, because he doesn't want to know how to do it, or explore my answer, he just wants the code. I answer:
Why do you need it ? What are you trying to do ? Which bit are you stuck on ?
And he responds by deleting all his posts. I guess he'll see if someone on the MSDN forums will just do his work without asking him to show any signs of intelligence or comprehension.
More software thieves
Last night I saw this post:
Inject Dll with the Application
Hello Experts,
I seen a software of redgate which name is smartassembly.
Regarding how can i inject dlls with the exe. This Process is also called Dependency Mearging.
Please give me the ideas.
My reply was as follows:
What do you want to do exactly ? What is it that you want to achieve ? You want to take dlls that your project uses, and make them part of the exe, so they are not seperate files ? You need to decompile your dlls, if you don't have the source already, and add the source to your main project. A tool would do this by decompiling all the source, and then merging it.
When I get up this morning, he had finally replied and a conversation had ensued:
Actually my application have two dlls in which application is dependent. I want to make my application to portable.
So i want to inject those dlls to with my application. i sees a software of redgate (smartassembly). Its works exectly which i want.But i want to use without purchasing any application. This process is called Dependency Mearger in software.
Please give me the technique for doing that.
Someone replied with 'buy it, or do what Christian said'. So, he asks:
Are u IT Professional.
Brilliant.
Inject Dll with the Application
Hello Experts,
I seen a software of redgate which name is smartassembly.
Regarding how can i inject dlls with the exe. This Process is also called Dependency Mearging.
Please give me the ideas.
My reply was as follows:
What do you want to do exactly ? What is it that you want to achieve ? You want to take dlls that your project uses, and make them part of the exe, so they are not seperate files ? You need to decompile your dlls, if you don't have the source already, and add the source to your main project. A tool would do this by decompiling all the source, and then merging it.
When I get up this morning, he had finally replied and a conversation had ensued:
Actually my application have two dlls in which application is dependent. I want to make my application to portable.
So i want to inject those dlls to with my application. i sees a software of redgate (smartassembly). Its works exectly which i want.But i want to use without purchasing any application. This process is called Dependency Mearger in software.
Please give me the technique for doing that.
Someone replied with 'buy it, or do what Christian said'. So, he asks:
Are u IT Professional.
Brilliant.
This is just too hard to comprehend
I don't understand why software developers think it's OK to steal software. Of course, we're not really talking about developers, right ? I just saw this in a C++ forum:
hello friends how r u all??
hope enjoying ur life.
plz helpme to findout the cracked or full version of videoocx.
i tried alot to find its crack but i cant......
i tried n find this but its not working .....its fake.....
Name: Cindy J. Leonhardt Key: FE66-A8A7-2EB8-570E
plz helpme out......
Someone said 'you do realise you're asking how to steal something in a public forum', and he replies:
yes i realize but i hav no other option ...i hav to complete my final project and for this i hav to find this.can u help me.......
Four minutes later he replies to himself with:
plz help me ...tell me its corect user name and password
At this point one has to wonder why he thinks that anyone on this forum knows a username/password, let alone would give away something they paid for.
Then he tries to justify his actions:
there r so many things for the reason of cracking this software ....bcoz i hav not muchmoney tobuy this software...as i m a student ...so hope u can understand the whole situation
Now here's the kicker. As his attempts to steal this software via a forum failed, he used the article wizard on the site in question to create an article with the title:
plz help me to find cracked version of video ocx
These articles start with a boilerplate sample that says things like 'put a description of what your article does here'. He's not changed any of that, just the title. You'd think that someone willing to put this much time in could have just worked the same amount of time at McDonalds and paid for the component that way.
hello friends how r u all??
hope enjoying ur life.
plz helpme to findout the cracked or full version of videoocx.
i tried alot to find its crack but i cant......
i tried n find this but its not working .....its fake.....
Name: Cindy J. Leonhardt Key: FE66-A8A7-2EB8-570E
plz helpme out......
Someone said 'you do realise you're asking how to steal something in a public forum', and he replies:
yes i realize but i hav no other option ...i hav to complete my final project and for this i hav to find this.can u help me.......
Four minutes later he replies to himself with:
plz help me ...tell me its corect user name and password
At this point one has to wonder why he thinks that anyone on this forum knows a username/password, let alone would give away something they paid for.
Then he tries to justify his actions:
there r so many things for the reason of cracking this software ....bcoz i hav not muchmoney tobuy this software...as i m a student ...so hope u can understand the whole situation
Now here's the kicker. As his attempts to steal this software via a forum failed, he used the article wizard on the site in question to create an article with the title:
plz help me to find cracked version of video ocx
These articles start with a boilerplate sample that says things like 'put a description of what your article does here'. He's not changed any of that, just the title. You'd think that someone willing to put this much time in could have just worked the same amount of time at McDonalds and paid for the component that way.
Who cares if you know the answer ?
Since Microsoft's MVP award has become common knowledge, many people in the same parts of the world as the outsourcers who fuel this blog, work mighty hard to answer any question they can, in the hopes of getting an award for their resume. This means that any basic question is likely to get 20 answers, all exactly the same. What's worse, is when people plainly have no idea, but give it a shot anyhow. Someone today asked a question, I won't reproduce it here, not least because the post was quite long, and intelligent. However, he had this code:
<input id="Bt_Descarga" class="" visible="TRUE" style="width: 100px" type="button" value="Download" onclick="Download(txtFile.text)" />
which then called this function:
<script type="text/javascript">
function Download(nom_fich)
{
window.open("Downloadfile.aspx?ar=" + nom_fich,"Download","width=10,height=10,resizable=yes;top=200,left=150,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,location=no");
}
</script>
His problem is that the query string parameter is always null. The issue is that txtFile.text is server side code, he needs instead to get the client side id, look it up and then look up the control on the client to get it's text. Someone answered as follows:
You should pass it in single qoute.
window.open("Downloadfile.aspx?ar='" + nom_fich + "'
regard
Imrankhan
What ? If I think I know an answer and I'm not sure, I create a project to test my theory. I only have to look at the URL in my browser to confirm that strings in a query string variable are not in quotes ( not that I didn't know that already ).
What makes this worse is, because these people are typically looking to be given code and NOT forced to understand it, sometimes I've found myself as a voice in the wilderness, as I give good advice, and they ignore me and talk to someone with bad advice, who posts some code. The biggest example of this is the CreateGraphics method, which is designed for drawing rubber bands, etc, because what it draws, is erased as soon as a window is obscured in any way. People were using it as their main way of drawing, which is plain wrong, they need to instead handle their paint event. There was a time when I was constantly posting to tell people this was the wrong way to do things, and so often, I would be ignored as they continued to ask questions of the person who was helpfully giving them code that was basically useless, although it appeared to work if you tried it briefly. Which is how I expect that the delivery day of most of these outsourcing projects goes.
<input id="Bt_Descarga" class="" visible="TRUE" style="width: 100px" type="button" value="Download" onclick="Download(txtFile.text)" />
which then called this function:
<script type="text/javascript">
function Download(nom_fich)
{
window.open("Downloadfile.aspx?ar=" + nom_fich,"Download","width=10,height=10,resizable=yes;top=200,left=150,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,location=no");
}
</script>
His problem is that the query string parameter is always null. The issue is that txtFile.text is server side code, he needs instead to get the client side id, look it up and then look up the control on the client to get it's text. Someone answered as follows:
You should pass it in single qoute.
window.open("Downloadfile.aspx?ar='" + nom_fich + "'
regard
Imrankhan
What ? If I think I know an answer and I'm not sure, I create a project to test my theory. I only have to look at the URL in my browser to confirm that strings in a query string variable are not in quotes ( not that I didn't know that already ).
What makes this worse is, because these people are typically looking to be given code and NOT forced to understand it, sometimes I've found myself as a voice in the wilderness, as I give good advice, and they ignore me and talk to someone with bad advice, who posts some code. The biggest example of this is the CreateGraphics method, which is designed for drawing rubber bands, etc, because what it draws, is erased as soon as a window is obscured in any way. People were using it as their main way of drawing, which is plain wrong, they need to instead handle their paint event. There was a time when I was constantly posting to tell people this was the wrong way to do things, and so often, I would be ignored as they continued to ask questions of the person who was helpfully giving them code that was basically useless, although it appeared to work if you tried it briefly. Which is how I expect that the delivery day of most of these outsourcing projects goes.
Monday, November 2, 2009
txt speak
Posts like this drive me insane:
Okay....then where i can change dat local setting in my browser or can i change it thro code itself??...
if it is possible in code
can you give me d snippet??
i hav seen this format change settings in MS Excel...is dat possible in ASP.net also?
Or this
hi guys can ne1 plzz tell me how to create a code for asynchronous messaging using MQ. for send/rescive and Publisher/Subscriber applications. send me the project or code for the same its very very urgent i hv to gv today evening....
thanks in advance
or this
HI,
Im gettin an exception saying "InvalidOperationException" nd it says "No data exists for the row/coloumn", for the following code, nd d exception results on the d line that has been underlined....please check d code nd help....plssss!!!!
or this
hi hesicong!! i hv seen ur project FILE TRANSFER FROM PC TO MOBILE PHONE i hv some prob about sdk.plzz tell me what is sdk and i could i get it?plzz give me detail about SDK. thnku
or this
Hallo frendz,
i wnt to make my vb.net(winforms) apllication's exe will anyone tell me how to make executable file?....its urgent pliz ....
priya.:(
which got this reply:
Hey priya just be Happy i m here for u
Just Go the Solution Explorer Then Build Solution .ur .exe will be in the Folder u ve saved in ur project as .exe file exactly in Bin Folder just Find it there by going to Search in the Start up Menu
thx
A phone has 12 odd buttons, and txt speak evolved because of how much work it is to type one character. A computer has 101 keys. Why can't people just type clearly ?
Okay....then where i can change dat local setting in my browser or can i change it thro code itself??...
if it is possible in code
can you give me d snippet??
i hav seen this format change settings in MS Excel...is dat possible in ASP.net also?
Or this
hi guys can ne1 plzz tell me how to create a code for asynchronous messaging using MQ. for send/rescive and Publisher/Subscriber applications. send me the project or code for the same its very very urgent i hv to gv today evening....
thanks in advance
or this
HI,
Im gettin an exception saying "InvalidOperationException" nd it says "No data exists for the row/coloumn", for the following code, nd d exception results on the d line that has been underlined....please check d code nd help....plssss!!!!
or this
hi hesicong!! i hv seen ur project FILE TRANSFER FROM PC TO MOBILE PHONE i hv some prob about sdk.plzz tell me what is sdk and i could i get it?plzz give me detail about SDK. thnku
or this
Hallo frendz,
i wnt to make my vb.net(winforms) apllication's exe will anyone tell me how to make executable file?....its urgent pliz ....
priya.:(
which got this reply:
Hey priya just be Happy i m here for u
Just Go the Solution Explorer Then Build Solution .ur .exe will be in the Folder u ve saved in ur project as .exe file exactly in Bin Folder just Find it there by going to Search in the Start up Menu
thx
A phone has 12 odd buttons, and txt speak evolved because of how much work it is to type one character. A computer has 101 keys. Why can't people just type clearly ?
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