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Software engineering is an art, done by artists but being in the industry can be a pain at times more especially when issues comes from old problems. To manage a software project is very different from managing any other project for example building a bridge, when you build a bridge you can see the progress. Quality is key to every phase of the project, what you promise a customer can cost you the whole project. You must believe your self every step of the way because there are lot of come-backs in software projects , when issues arise we have one person to blame “The Programmer”. Well there must be someone to point a finger to, who better than the one who put it all together?

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If you ever imported a project from VB6 to .net and your lazy to re-write all your MS Flexgrids, the you’ll have a problem when you upgrade your machine to that 64 bit you always wanted. Seeing an error like this can turn you off.

The solution comes from the problem its self, Microsoft says VB6 development is 32 bit and will not be supported in 64 bit. Microsoft issued the following statement:

“Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista,Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7”

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Results first , ok lets see how I got this.

Ok, I provided the full class windows form with two datagridviews named datagridview1 (normal) and datagridview2 (vertical)

For a perfect view like the one above you gotta cheat a lil,

this.dataGridView2.ColumnHeadersVisible = false

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When I heard of Visual Studio light switch I was really excited but to no avail, I’ll tell you why.

I visited this link http://bit.ly/csCxzY Titled:

LightSwitch Beta 1 Available to MSDN Subscribers Today, General Public on Monday by Beth Massi.

Then I went to MSDN.com since I subscribe, to no lights.

Monday is not good enough for me I’m a subscriber.

Saying your email is not working or you just wanna mess around your blog or maybe you seriously need this. Let me show you how.

**Note that Word press used MD5 Hash for passwords so you gonna need MD5 Hash generator.

Locate your users table using phpMyAdmin

Then get your MD5 hash generated

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#include <iostream>
public void main()
{
 cout < < "hello world";
}