Wile E Coyote is a true genius

Sorting through my clutter,  (I'm something of a hoarder), I came across an old and somewhat rusty tv tuner card.

 

I ended up after a couple of days of searching for an appropriate driver at this link. It turned out to be a Hercules TV Series 2 Stereo,   but the only marking visible on the card was TVF-8533-B/DF   which is just the connextant tuner...   The actual driver was much harder to track down and took me a couple of days.

 

I wanted to use the card in the spare computer in the spare room to put a tv in there.   Its an older box with this older card,  all I needed to make it come together was the driver.

 

So if you are googling that tuner...  I found heaps of linux Stuff the best of which seemed to be here.

 

So this may help you.   If not let me know.

 

Wile.

Ok...   I get the basics of data binding.    I get that you can plonk a data grid onto a windows form.   I get that you can allow edits and sorts and all sorts of wonderful things.   What I dont get is how the data in the grid is safely conveyed between the server on which it resides and my form. 

 

A lot of reading shows me that it is safest to bind via a data service which runs on an accesable server.  The manner in which you can do this is where it gets really really confusing.  The beginner articles take you through a bunch of stuff about binding to data.   Let me tell you folks, these methods taught to the beginners are totally ugly, and ignore aspects of security, scaling speed and reliablility.   They do nothing to show you how to create objects with methods and properties.   Eg you are encouraged to data bind to a customer table using a defined ODBC connection method.  It doesnt think about other connection types / multiple user/ sychronous versus asynchronous update, remote data and a whole bunch of stuff that I am thinking about.  More reading I fear.   My call for help is that I am interested in other people's frustration at the plethora of conflicting information, and if generosity permits, the road map to a simple solution. 

 

I know how to build a windows form.  I know how to pull out data and fill up a data grid.    Indeed there are a couple of great pod casts which show how. All I can say is that simple can be nasty.  I will keep you all posted.

 

Addendum...   My call for help has fallen on deaf ears. ...   I posted 17 June and got 0 responses...  What - no one else is starting out and running up against this plethora of beginners advice???  

 

IS THERE A SINGLE METHOD OF REMOTELY CONNECTING TO DATA USING ASP.NET WHICH IS SECURE AND RELIABLE NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES A CONNECTION IS USED?

 

Imagine thousands of enquiries coming into your SQL tables ,  some the result of search,  some the result of a specific request.   How does Google do it???   Is that the best way?  Is it effective?  

 

 

Fair dinkum...    a bloke can sit and read and decide, then be totally wrong a month later and have to start again.   I really do want to hear from you, and share with you some of my experiences.   We may be able to help each other.

 

Cheers...

Before I close off today,  I wanted to share a delightful meeting of a person I experienced today.   She and her husband both.  I attended their home to fix their computer, and found to my great delight that the lady was a wealth of intelligent conversation.  An ex teacher, she wrote many childrens books which were published for adoption by the education department in the teaching of children.  

 

It is not often you meet someone of this calibre,  and I wanted to share this with you in the hopes that you too will find delight in meeting someone, as I did today.

 

Cheers.

I am looking at what I need to do to get a sound back end store for my application.  The plethora of articles and reading I have done points at an SQL data store.  This decision is relatively simple for me, as it becomes something I can totally control at install time.   What I really want is a simple generic way of accessing the data store which is secure and portable.  These two ideas do not have a good fit, at least not one that I have read about.

 

The base problem for me is that I want this to be simple.   I keep profiling my design out of my MS Access experience.  I have to tell you folks, I have not found anything which is as easily wrapped as MS Access.  I realise however, that it has not got the universality that I am looking for.  So here I sit undecided at how to put a back end on my application.   I am being pulled in the direction of ASP.net in terms of my design, but there are many conflicting things being said about it.  Particularly how to approach it.  So I started at this site.   

 

I feel that putting multiple layers into the design strengthens its stability, but weakens its security.   If you cant trust the foundations, how can you trust the application?  This was my major reason for moving away from MS Access.  I couldnt trust the foundations.  Parts of my application would dissapear for no apparent reason. I still love the product for its simplicity, and I can arrive at desired results fast.  I hate that I need to constantly patch up the app to keep it functioning.  

 

So the concept as I see its structure is...   Database ....   ASP.net Data Service...     Windows Forms Application...     This is the simple concept I have for my design, having done my data design and knowing what I want in my forms, the confusing bit is the data service.  From what I have read, I am not alone.   I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has other reference points for me to try out.   I feel confused.

 

Cheers.

Whatever happened to simple thoughts.   I need to write this to admonish myself a tad.

 

I am working on a project to realise a simple idea.

 

A one page thing that takes you through a process.

 

Then I introduced this concept of security.  Now for some reason its not so simple.

 

GET BACK TO BASICS MATE AND LET THE USER DEAL WITH SECURITY.

 

Cheers.