[Jake Easom]

You can turn off the printing of a header in Notepad++. Settings->Preferences->Print.

I can't imagine printing code as ever being useful myself, but to each their own I guess.

Well it helps if someone doesn't have a way to see it with the syntax highlighting, say for instance no Visual Studio installed and inabiility to install other software. Though I guess Notepad++ portable works but alot of systems on school campuses restrict what can be run from flash drives.

[Oscar Vazquez]

I still haven't figured the printing issue out but I guess for the moment its not a big deal.

I keep being told if I use WPF to look into MVVM but when I do I get so lost and confused. Do you guys think for a beginner programmer it is worth tryign to wrap my brain around or wait until I get a bit more experience which will let me understand it better?

Also, I want to create an updater for one of my programs but since it is just a single executable I am not sure how to go about it other then have it create a temporary executable which runs and replaces the program. Any suggestions for this?

[Ella Loapaga]

I keep being told if I use WPF to look into MVVM but when I do I get so lost and confused. Do you guys think for a beginner programmer it is worth tryign to wrap my brain around or wait until I get a bit more experience which will let me understand it better?

Can you expand these acronyms?

Also, I want to create an updater for one of my programs but since it is just a single executable I am not sure how to go about it other then have it create a temporary executable which runs and replaces the program. Any suggestions for this?

On most POSIX operating systems you can replace a file that is currently open (so your executable can overwrite itself just fine). Not sure if that works on Windows or not; it didn't *used* to (ever try overwriting a file in use?).

[Kelvin Diaz]

Can you expand these acronyms?

Windows Presentation Foundation and Model-View-ViewModel.

And no on Windows operating systems if a file is in use you cannot overwrite it.

[An Lor]

I'm afraid I don't know how to help you with those -- I've never done any Windows-specific programming.

[Darlene Delk]

Thats alright I seem to be so lost and can't find anythinggood to learn from so I am goign to wait until I learn a bit more and then go back and fix things.

Another thing I keep getting hung up on is icons for my applications. I know it is just for aesthetics and unnecessary but sometimes it would be niceto have one.

[BRIANNA]

The Model View View Model is apparently a specialization of http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PresentationModel.html design pattern.

[michael flanigan]

hi all, so Im very new to Java (all programming) and Im having a little trouble.

I've put together a little piece of code and I can compile it just fine. But when I go to run the class file I always get this error spit back at me.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:

my google search has shown me that this means that the jdk cant find my class file. I checked my classpath

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_06\lib\ext\QTJava.zip;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\lib

(I also have a separate QTJAVA path, I dont know if I need it becuase its already in my classpath, but I havent touched it.)

ok, so I got to the point where I put my .java file in with my jdk lib and when I compiled it it ran.. it didnt function properly but it ran.

I tried putting my working dir in my classpath but that didnt work.

So can anyone help me figure out why my class files wont run in other directories?

running XP and just doing it all in notepad++.... thanks

[Ana Torrecilla Cabeza]

What's the command you use to run the class?

[Catherine N]

*reads through thread* Oh my god.. I don't know what any of you are saying! *cries as his brain melts*

[hannaH]

I type in "java className" in the dir that I compile my java file.

[Josephine Gowing]

Are you getting the case correct. There is a difference between ClassName and className

[kiss my weasel]

yeah, I renamed the java file and class just to make sure all that wasnt the cause.

[roxanna matoorah]

I think I have a problem!
I spend all day at work looking at and manipulating XML data.
I come home, start browsing forums and the first thread I go to is a Programming Thread!

:shakehead:

[Adam Kriner]

I think I have a problem!
I spend all day at work looking at and manipulating XML data.
I come home, start browsing forums and the first thread I go to is a Programming Thread!

:shakehead:

XML data is sometimes fun to look at and work with. I know I use it in almost all my programs for various things. Works well and avoids large databases or complication connections to them from within the program. Then again all my programs use very small amounts of data (largest XML file was about 30 records).

[Music Show]

update: I had to add ". ;" (current dir) to my classpath. Seems to be working now.

thanks for the effort.

[benjamin corsini]

Imports System.Net.MailModule Module1    Sub Main()        Try            Dim Server As New SmtpClient()            Dim Mail As New MailMessage()            Server.EnableSsl = True            Server.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("account@gmail.com", "password")            Server.Port = 465            Server.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"            Console.WriteLine("Server info. . .")            Mail.To.Add(New System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("account@gmail.com"))            Mail.From = New System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("derp@derp.herp")            Mail.Subject = "this is a test email."            Mail.Body = "this is my test email body."            Console.WriteLine("Message info. . .")            Server.Send(Mail)            Console.WriteLine("Email sent. . .")            Console.ReadKey()        Catch ex As Exception            Console.WriteLine("Error. . . " + ex.Message)            Console.ReadKey()        End Try    End SubEnd Module

Simple email program to revive the thread. Wrote it in VB ( VS 2010 ).

[nath]

Not sure where to put this but...
I was thinking about setting up my own home server. My dads been challenging me to write a Silverlight application and to host it on a server. Not sure how exactly to do it though.

I have a computer that's just sitting around. What could I do with a home server though besides hosting a web app?

Sorry if none of this made sense. I'm just about to go to bed.

[Makenna Nomad]

Not sure where to put this but...
I was thinking about setting up my own home server. My dads been challenging me to write a Silverlight application and to host it on a server. Not sure how exactly to do it though.

I have a computer that's just sitting around. What could I do with a home server though besides hosting a web app?

Sorry if none of this made sense. I'm just about to go to bed.

You can use it for media streaming to a home theater system, data backup, central storage, maskeshift home webserver, those would be what I can think of off the top of my head.

[CArlos BArrera]

So I wrote the following method to log data in my applications (I actually added it as a publicmethod to a class library I am creating for myself):

        static void WriteLog(string Information)        {            const string LogFileName = "applog.txt";            StreamWriter LogWriter = new StreamWriter(LogFileName, true);            try            {                using (LogWriter)                {                    LogWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd") + " "                         + DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss") + " "                         + Information);                }            }            catch (Exception ex)            {                LogWriter.WriteLine(ex.Message);            }        }

Ignore the fact it is static, I wrote it in the default class of a console application. Right now I have it writing the date and I am pretty sure, if I recall right, it writes the time in 24 hour format. So far this is the behavior I want, but I am not sure how to skip a line at the end and keep writing if the file exists orpush down all the data and write the newest data on top. This method currently just overwrites the log file each time which although this is fine for some applications, not the behavior I want.

Any advice on what to do to solve this issue? I was thinking of using File.Exists() and then run another method to add theblank line but I figure there might be a better way.

[Travis]

Just thought I would share some news regarding the Android OS. http://mono-android.net/ is now in the works to allow .NET applications to run on the Android patform. This seems like it will be good for the community. I am wonderig though how many new developers it will bring since Windows Phone 7 probably is already written in a .NET language (not sure about this so I am guessing).

[Shianne Donato]

This morning I figured out a way to create a random string of characters (but can be changed to include numbers and symbols) and was thinking of posting the tutorial online. I already submitted it to the DreamInCode website so hopefully it gets approved. But I was thinking of create a simple site to host tutorials as well, not only for C# but other languages as well. Would anyone be interested in working on this with me to expand it for other languages as well?

[kiss my weasel]

Not sure where to put this but...
I was thinking about setting up my own home server. My dads been challenging me to write a Silverlight application and to host it on a server. Not sure how exactly to do it though.

I have a computer that's just sitting around. What could I do with a home server though besides hosting a web app?

Sorry if none of this made sense. I'm just about to go to bed.

DarkOneVenzar gave a few suggestions; other things you might want to use it for are a web proxy (caching as well as blocking crud you don't want), an IMAP mail server, printer server, and if you're feeling really ambitious, an LDAP server (centralised address book and account management). Nice thing about servers is that they'll often run quite happily on old, crappy hardware and have reasonably low power consumption thanks to the fact that they don't need a lot of CPU power or a fancy graphics card so you can just leave them on permanently without worrying about hideous electricity bills. I'd strongly suggest using RAID of some sort for your storage array if you keep important stuff on it, though; mirroring is the easiest though the likes of RAID/Z2 that Sun's ZFS supports is good in terms of both efficiency and high reliability, although the latter generally requires a Unix of some description which you may or may not want to pursue.

[Lynne Hinton]

The computer I had as my server died this morning. It just wouldn't turn on. Which blows. But oh well. :shrug:

[Big Homie]

The computer I had as my server died this morning. It just wouldn't turn on. Which blows. But oh well. :shrug:

I suggest you fill it with dynamite to teach it a lesson. :hehe: