Brian Takita

• Adds an icon for the Generic Query Analyzer
• Is refactored to remove a little used dll

• Lock the object that fired the event
• Check if the object state matches the event state. If not, throw an exception.
• Implement an event counter.
• Unit test the event count.

Jeremy Rifkin wrote a book about how the private and public sector are unable to support productivity growth caused by technology. There is an abundance unskilled and semiskilled laborers who find that their jobs are made redundant by advances in machinery and general productivity. There are not enough service and "silicon collared" jobs being created to balance the regular loss of jobs in the manufacturing and farming sector.

He proposes strengthening the Third sector, or volunteer organizations, as the means to care for the displaced and to create work. Indeed, the third sector is perhaps,  the foundation that brought success to America, yet it is underrated in today's religions of free market capitalism and big government.

Rifkin briefly mentions a "social" economy based on volunteer work where the currency is how much one spends time helping other people. Kind of like communities looking out for each other on a national level. To do this the role of communities must be strengthened.

Its hard to imagine such a life where work is not paid for. How can this coexist with capitalism? Probably taxing the corporations and using the gains in productivity and profits to subsidize the Third sector. Not a bad idea, but it would take a grassroots paradigm shift. After all, our media is saturated with capitalists perpetuating their dogma of consumerism and their rationalization that only corporations bring innovation. It also flies in the face of the individualistic tendencies of America.

The government cant lead such a project because it would die in red tape from the massive bureaucracy. A decentralized effort will provide agile solutions to societal problems that continue to plague the world. The world matters very much to America: case in point as September 11. But this is greater than just reducing terrorism, this is a chance for us to tendency to stop exploiting and start empowering other peoples. If we see other people as not competition for the world's resources, but as partners, we can usher in an age where everybody mutually benefits. Such a world is richer than all of DeBeers diamonds and the Saudi Arabia's oil.

I admit this is idealistic, but it is a good ideal to move toward. It certainly beats consumerism.

One of the great things about Whidbey is ClickOnce Deployment. At work, I use it to deploy rich client internal applications

ClickOnce can be used to not only deploy .NET applications, but also to deploy files. Yesterday, I deployed an Access adp application to our organization. To do so, I simply...

1. Create a Console Application
2. Add the adp file to the project and set it as Content
3. Write a bootstrapper application in the Main method
4. Configure the ClickOnce deployment

Here is the bootstrap..

#region Using directives
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
#endregion

namespace AdpApplication {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            System.Diagnostics.Process p = new Process();
            p.StartInfo.FileName = "./file.adp";
            p.Start();
        }
    }
}

Nice and easy. Also, if you are using a web server to deploy the file, don't forget to set the MIME type.

Many thanks to Jeff Julian for setting up an account for me at geekswithblogs.net. I am excited to start blogging and thankful Im on a .NET related blog site.

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I am very impressed with Subversion Source Control.

I've used SourceSafe, Vault, and CVS but none of them matched my needs.

I really like Subversion because is it is fast, lightweight, and, when coupled with Tortise, easy to use, administer, and set up. Commits are as easy as going to Windows Explorer, select the folders and files to commit -> right click -> select Commit. I dont need to integrate the source control with Visual Studio, and suffer the performance hit and a more complicated development environment.

Branching, merging, rollbacks, and conflict resolution are easy. Subversion makes source control fun, rather than a chore like the other tools I used before.

Now, Im version controlling items that I edit, including my blog posts and articles.

Subversion can be run on a desktop, file share, or as a web service. The web service interface for Subversion can be run off of its own svn server or Apache. If you use the svn server on a Windows server, you may want to consider using SVNService to register the svn server as a Service.