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By default, Visual Studio doesn’t come with Crystal Reports. Microsoft has now its own reporting tool with an .rdlc extension. In order to use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, you need to download it from SAP’s website. Crystal Reports is now called “SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio” and can be downloaded at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35074. You can also download it directly here: http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0_5.exe

If you encounter this error while running your application using either VB.NET or C#, this is most likely a problem with a reserved word in MS Access database. As you can see in the screenshot below, I have two reserve words used in my query. That is "name" and "section" field. If you have noticed, the "section" field is not enclosed with a bracket, ending up throwing an "IErrorInfo.GetDescription failed with E_FAIL(0x80004005)" error. In order to avoid this problem, all you have to do is either enclosed the reserved word using a bracket or don’t use a reserved word at all.

If you’re not familiar with OMR software, it’s a computer program that recognizes the mark of an answer sheet or survey form. OMR is useful if you want to use computer to check the large number of documents. Consider having 30 pages of answer sheet and allow your computer to check the mark and transfer it to the database or an excel worksheet. The amount of time you will save is comparatively big compare to doing it yourself, manually. There are numerous OMR software nowadays, and their feature varies from each other. The following are the OMR software I intend to use:

MyISAM and InnoDB is a storage engine of MySQL. If you have large databases and have lots of traffic on your website, you will probably encounter a CPU load problem due to table locking features of MyISAM. I created this article to share my problem on several website that I owned including sourcecodester.com. Almost every day I am worried about the load that MySQL is generating on my server’s CPU. In fact, there are times that this website are down and cannot be access for several minutes.

This article will explain about the two well-known languages that exist today – C# and VB.NET. Though I am a Visual Basic fanatic, I don’t want to recommend that VB is better than C#. Some of the C/C++ programmer would argue that C# is the best language compare to VB.NET. Well, if we go back 10 years ago, this notion is sometimes correct. But of course it would defend on the application that you are going to create. C# is based on C++ or Java, while VB.NET is based on BASIC. Both languages is said to use the same framework, the .NET framework.

Freelancer has again acquired another outsourcing company, and this time it was vworker (formerly rentacoder.com). Vworker started last 2001 and become 4th biggest marketplace for freelance coders. Just in 2010, rentacoder changed its name to vworker to prepare for additional categories like graphic design and writing jobs. Freelancer has also bought Scriptlance last July 2012, a fifth in rank in outsourcing business. With its acquisition of the two biggest companies, freelancer is now said to have 6.6 million IT professional.

We have identified the following PHP script as an entry to our PHP Coding Contest sponsored by NuSphere. If you think that one of your posts is qualified for this contest, kindly add your comment below and we will be happy to review it and add it here for voting by tomorrow.

I have update on my previous post called “Library System in Visual Basic .NET 2008 and SQL Server 2008”. In my to do list, I mentioned the following: Use accession # to borrow and return book. Auto generate ID. Sample reports like Borrowed Books, Returned Books, Fine, Members Report, and a lot more. Currently only the first list is being updated and that is on how to use Accession # to Borrow and Return Book. In this update, I use the Member ID and the accession # of book to automatically add the book title in the DataGridView control.

I have a client from UK who would like to reverse engineer the old program made in VB 6.0. Since I am not knowledgeable on the said program, I am looking for somebody who knows this. Here’s the problem he encounter:

The truth about being a programmer is that you are just a worker. The one who earns more after your hard work is your boss, right? Don’t get me wrong, I believe you’d like to earn a decent income in order to sustain the life that you are longing for. Having a great job isn’t the answer to your financial problem. Yes, you are a programmer and you belong to what we called – one of the highest paying individual living in the planet today. Your pride seems too high that you are proud of yourself. But wait a minute…Do you earn the same as other programmers?