My project is a client/server .NET application that supports electronic warfare (EW) mission data for US Air Force combat aircraft, particularly the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. ...

I'll add to the slowness comments... it processed 11K of XML in a little over two minutes. I tried on a 141K block and it ran for 12...

I also vote for leaving the site as-is from a design perspective, focusing on fixing any known bugs. I also vote for returning to the old newsletter format -...

Way too narrow. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the old one; it appeared great in Outlook preview pane. The new one is much more difficult...

"Factivism" is fine as long as you use the "true" facts and not skewed facts. As we all know, the "facts" can be twisted and manipulated into whatever you...

Good luck. You probably have a better chance of delays with the FAA furlough nonsense going on than with data issues. Big gov't at it's "finest"...

We're a US government (US Air Force) organization and we'll be sticking with 2008 R2 for the forseeable future. My specific application runs using SQL 2008 on three different...

While it may not be exactly what is asked for in the question "What strong opinion did you hold that has been changed over time?", here's my input:

At my first...

I work for a US Air Force organization and am pretty lucky that innovation is really important here. The technical advisor (top civilian) for our group wants to consolidate...

Wow... 10M lines of code. I develop a .NET application that has 877+K lines of code spread out over 40 projects in a single solution. I thought that...

Many thanks everyone. I have this working like a champ...

Steve

Thanks... I'll check out your link. BTW, this is a super-simplified example of my real problem which is for a system on a classified network. That's why the...

I have seven development PCs sitting here at my desk, including a "souped-up" one that cost over $5K. Add in a 21" monitor, a ScanSnap scanner, and a Cybex...

One of our databases is populated on a monthly basis when we get a DVD from an outside agency. This data is converted from the DVD format and stored...

Fortunately I have been able to convince everyone to go with SQL 2008 for all our systems, including getting it approved for compartmented classified systems that are still running Windows...