Final presentation
Writing by Sven on Friday, 22 of June , 2007 at 1:29 am
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Sven in Sverige 
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I’m home since Saturday. Due too the many work that is left, I will be writing my last post in a few days
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My layout :
Previous layout Sebastiaan :
If you were a company, which system would you prefer ? 
Well it’s all done with CSS, divs, and.. yes 1 table because Internet Explorer seemed to have some problems with floating.
Last week in Sweden has started !
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3 hours on debugging. Whaaat ? Yes, that’s when you work with VB.NET and an Access database.
Let’s give an example :
2 possible bugs can appear :
- The parameters are not set in the right order. Though you give an ID for each parameter (see @), the stored procedure (sorry I mean stored query) still wants them in the exact order.
- The stored query looks for records that have a name that is “like” the given name, so with LIKE [’@name’]. MS Access only accepts * as a wildcard. But on the contrary, in VB.NET you must specify this character with the normal % sign !!
It took me hours to solve this bugs.
I also get upset that MS Access doesn’t accept real stored procedures, so I can’t put some logic into the SQL code. That’s why I have SelectUsersByName and SelectUsersByNameAndRole, in case the role-id is not given.
It’s sad but we must work with these horrible languages, cause the professors “can’t maintain C# and SQL Server is still not for free” (??)..
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If you ever went to the Apple Reseller in Gent (Belgium), propably you will have come out terrified by the kindness oldest salesman. He doesn’t like customers, that’s for sure. You can read lots of stories about this shop on the internet (1, 2, 3).
Yesterday in Malmö, I went to MacSupport where a geeky (like they all are) but friendly male vendor helped me out of my adaptor problem. He even wanted to fix my cable and return it on the same day. After calling to Apple Support, and obtaining the CS code, he even just gave me a totally new cable ! Switch, let this be a lesson for you.
So my trip to Malmö was more than worth considering. Luckely I didn’t wait for my roommates deciding when they would eventually go to Göthenborg (so I could go to the reseller over there) and in the meanwhile having the risk my broken cable would turn into flames (there were already burn signs on the end..)
I just did my own thing, which turned out to be the best, having a meet and greet with some Swedish guy from msn, and enjoyed a lovely day in Malmö !!
I finished the day with a nice drink with the international students in the B&B bowling/dancing center in Halmstad. I have never seen so much people in the streets of this town !!
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Wander how Swedish student parties sound like ?
This is a video taken yesterday at the weekly students pub party. Bad music, but still enough fun and hot swedish blonds ! Enjoy
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Some time ago Microsoft changed the name of the framework Atlas into ASP Ajax.
You can now download the installer package for Visual Studio, make a new Ajax enabled project, and you are off.
But Microsoft forgot something.
When you are working with MasterPages (and you should) you have to rename Ajax back into Atlas !
Suppose you want to place the ScriptManager into a aspx page, which extends the masterpage.
<asp:ScriptManager runat=”server” EnablePartialRendering=”True” />
Then you should change it into
<atlas:ScriptManager runat=”server” EnablePartialRendering=”True” />
and update the tagprefix in the register line and web.config file.
The power of xml files 
Next bug to fix : Making my usercontrol to recognize an asp control inside an updatepanel, inside the usercontrol..
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Last week Sebastiaan made a small test program in VB for the connection with Access database, and I made some templates. But today we started with the real implementation.
This morning we had a meeting again with our mentor. He just returned from his appointment with the consultants company, and brought some new information. Analys objects, structures, dimensional concepts, concept parameters, parameter variables.. he used some quite abstract words. May be it sounds more difficult than it is.
In the afternoon we finished the login process. Quite easy if you work with the ASP.NET login control. The following days we will make the complete registration, followed by the very advanced question forms.
Wednesday evening we went for the first time to the weekly student party, at Karen at the University. Did you know that parties already end at 2 am ? That people may not smoke inside ? That you have to wait in line to get in ? That there is a lot of security ? That Sweeds are beautiful people ? That they sell Stella’s ? That knulla means “fuck” ?
Yes the learning process has started !
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I’ve been sitting 2 weeks in Sweden now.
It’s now time to give a little overview of what has happened, and how easy going Swedish life actually is.
First of all, everyone you meet at a public place, or at least someone who offers services, is always very friendly. You get a nice smile, followed by a short happy ‘Hej’. But Swedes like to take enough brakes, so you better be on time.
So after two weeks, yesterday we finally got a paper with our project description. We have to make a ASP.NET website for consultants doing risk management, written in VB.NET. When a consultant goes to examine a building, he takes his tablet pc with the application (webserver) on it. Before he leaves, he synchronizes with the database on the internet, which will give him the most up-to-date information about the subject.
When he arrives, he has to answer some questions, like “Is the building made of wood”. Answering that question, the building will be assigned some parameters, for example “fire risk”. At the end, the consultant will be able to generate conclusions and numeric reports, and even import them into a PowerPoint or Excel 2007 sheet.
It’s a complex application, and I’m a bit sad that we still can’t start to employ it after two weeks. We still need some real life examples, and of course a (dummy) database or some kind of structure. Also, the project has to be made with Microsoft Access, which isn’t a great SQL interpreter.
Today Sebastiaan and I went to school to start with the project. But it didn’t take long because of the lack of information, … and the nice sunny day. Tommorow we’ll give it another try.
I heard that our collegues at Porto already finished their main app (wtf ?). But this won’t discourage us !
Some other remarkable things I need to say :
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