tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35125580321144355522024-03-04T20:55:15.201-08:00Here And ThereDay to day talk about .Net, Code, New Tech etc.Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749735183408962888noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-81603977126177565022007-05-29T00:30:00.000-07:002011-09-21T09:13:13.912-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hi all,</span><br> </font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">Today i will review a new application called </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.it-workplace.co.uk/" style="font-family: verdana;">Intelligencia.</a><br> <br> </font><font size="2">Intelligencia has two products that i would like to review</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">First is:</font><font size="2"><br> <br> </font> <h1 style="text-align: left;"> <font style="text-decoration: underline;" size="3">Intelligencia Olap Controls</font><font size="2"><br> <blockquote style="font-weight: normal;">Intelligencia Olap Controls allow you to add state of the art Olap query capability to your application</blockquote></font> </h1> <h1 style="text-align: left;"> <font size="2"><font style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="2">Installation experience:</font><br> </font><br> <font style="font-weight: normal;">Small size installation and easy to install no special requirements.</font><br> <br> </font><font size="2"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">First Impression:</font><br> <br> <font style="font-weight: normal;" size="2">Don't have!!! could not connect to any of my olap servers, i guess that someone in</font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="2">the product team forgot to code some minimal connection wizard<br> so all i could use is a poor connection string text box & couldn't connect!</font></font> </h1> <h1 style="text-align: left;"> <font size="2"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Usability:</font><br> <font style="font-weight: bold;"><br> </font><font style="font-weight: normal;">None!</font></font> </h1> <font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Funcionallity:<br> <br> </font><font size="2">None!<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Graphic User Interface:<br> <br> </font><font size="2">From what i could see in the pictures in Intelligencia site</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">it look clean and nice to work with, is has ribbon as the menu component.<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Money Worth<br> <br> </font><font size="2">£599.00</font><font size="2">!!! A Lot more work should be done in order for a developer to buy such a product</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">in that price.<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Overall Rating:</font><font size="2"><br> <br> </font><font size="2">Poor.<br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2"><br> <br> </font> <h1 style="text-decoration: underline;"> <font size="3">Intelligencia for Word 2007</font> </h1> <font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Installation experience:<br> <br> </font><font size="2">Large installation relative to a word addin,</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">You will need to install adomd as prerequisite prior working with the addon,</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">I don't really understand why they are not doing it during the installation.<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">First impression:<br> <font style="font-weight: bold;"><br> </font></font><font size="2">Nice add on.<br> </font><font size="2"><br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Usability:<br> <br> </font><font size="2">Hard to connect to a data source, specially if it has user name and password.</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">Many problems after creating a new connection that requires name & password.</font><font size="2"><br> <br> </font><font size="2">Sources like local sql server that does not require password are OK to work with</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">But it seems to take forever to load small amount of data from the server to word.<br> <br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Funcionallity:<br> <br> </font><font size="2">Nice formatting abilities, i specially liked the parameter driver documents,</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">the refresh data abilities which make the word document dynamic and very useful</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">for businesses.</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">Very nice feature is to be able to connect to many data sources such as Excel, access etc.<br> <br> </font><font size="2">The add on is missing sharing abilities such that one can share its insights with co-workers.<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Graphic User Interface:</font><font size="2"><br> <br> </font><font size="2">I liked the table/pivot formatting abilities, menus are clear and simple<br> </font><font size="2">easy to understand.<br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Money Worth:</font><font size="2"><br> <br> </font><font size="2">£199.50 I would probably pay this amount for this nice addon<br> but is surly need some QA before i would buy it, some bugs in the add on are really annoying.</font><font size="2"><br> <br> <br> </font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Overall Rating:<br> </font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2"> Ok.</font><font size="2"><br> </font> <h1 style="text-align: left;"> <font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2"><br> </font> </h1> </div>Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749735183408962888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-82970259847735276492007-03-06T07:44:00.000-08:002007-03-06T07:48:16.959-08:00Change Print Paper Size in c# (Pain in the neck)Hi there,<br /><br />after struggling with my code for a few hours<br />i finally made it .. changed the print document size in c#<br />its unbelievable how hard it is to find info about how to do it<br /><br />Problem: Set the paper size to A4<br /><br />the solution was fairly easy:<br /><br /> foreach (PaperSize paperSz in printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes)<br /> if (paperSz.PaperName.StartsWith("A4"))<br /> printDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = paperSz;<br /><br />Hope it will help you<br />Have a good one<br /><br />TATAEdihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446283529529413449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-21164184049233955992007-01-04T10:46:00.000-08:002007-01-04T11:00:20.891-08:00EZIRIZ - .Net Code Protection & license systemHi there<br /><br />Just gut across a very interesting .net application protection called "EZIRIZ"<br />I'm doing some research for the application I'm working on regarding code protection<br />and licensing models, i checked many applications all complicated to use and very expensive<br />(code protection around 1000$ and license component also around 1000$).<br /><br />I just found out about EZIRIZ , installed the demo version<br />and it works great, its doing the job easily and quickly and only costs around 190$<br />for the whole package!<br /><br />Also tried there support they answered immediately all my questions<br />Bottom line good product very nice GUI but need some touch here and there<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">from there web site:</span><br /> "<strong>NET Reactor</strong> is a powerful .NET code <strong>protection & license system</strong> which assists developers in protecting their .NET software. Developers are able to protect their software in a safe and simple way now. This way developers can focus more on development than on worrying how to protect their intellectual property"<br /><br />This is there website<br /><a href="http://www.eziriz.com/">http://www.eziriz.com/</a><br /><br />that's it for now<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">sin ciao</span>Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446283529529413449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-19248345076522356712006-12-30T22:35:00.000-08:002006-12-30T22:39:49.242-08:00Google .Net Development Custom Searchhi all,<br /><br />this is a .net dedicated custom search lets you search<br />anything you want with a context of .Net<br /><a href="http://adi.azaria.googlepages.com/home"><br /></a><a href="http://adi.azaria.googlepages.com/home">You can find it here</a><br /><br />c ya.Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446283529529413449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-58080685952432174692006-12-28T22:27:00.000-08:002006-12-28T22:35:54.576-08:00.NETZ a great compression tool<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Just gut to know a new tool for compressing my .Net dll's<br /><br />"<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:-1;color:#222222;"><b>NETZ</b> is a free open source tool that compresses and packs the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/" target="_blank">Microsoft .NET Framework</a> executable (EXE, DLL) files in order to make them smaller. Smaller executables consume less disk space and load faster because of fewer disk accesses"<br /><br /><br /></span>I tried this tool and it compressed to 1/3 of my original project size!!!<br /><br /><br />It has some problems i still need to figure out but they are only on version 0.3.7<br />so there is some way to go.<br /><br />Try it ...<br /><a href="http://madebits.com/netz/index.php">http://madebits.com/netz/index.php</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sin Chao</span>Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749735183408962888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-63787458203314181922006-12-27T09:15:00.000-08:002006-12-27T09:19:28.436-08:00Redmond developer newsRedDevNews.com, Web site dedicated to Microsoft development news, is now live<br /><br />looked into it some nice articles not to interesting or shocking news there<br /><br />but worth checking it out<br /><br /><a href="http://reddevnews.com">http://reddevnews.com </a><br /><br />Nice day you allEdihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749735183408962888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512558032114435552.post-58764359533371037582006-12-25T21:30:00.000-08:002008-12-10T22:05:21.368-08:00Here And There<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRR8eVG7eIZwCGWLlO-CWgR46gd9-7gjuQaXOIxejpN_GZLFytVPITEQmG20UXfG4Ybpm0majGlVBTx-dnIG05j4FunNStVwmkVaq9JEwYBSOu0e1bNtE5KvFtXQP-1gryhnpB59iIcXsJ/s1600-h/PICT0051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRR8eVG7eIZwCGWLlO-CWgR46gd9-7gjuQaXOIxejpN_GZLFytVPITEQmG20UXfG4Ybpm0majGlVBTx-dnIG05j4FunNStVwmkVaq9JEwYBSOu0e1bNtE5KvFtXQP-1gryhnpB59iIcXsJ/s200/PICT0051.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012704831163192706" border="0" /></a><br />This is my new blog, it will be mostly<br />dedicated to the world of .Net development<br /><br /><br />Hope you enjoy it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sin Chao<br /><br /></span>Edihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749735183408962888noreply@blogger.com0