Thanks, sbucareer and Bossman.
I will take a good look at you advice.

To be honest guys, personally I’m sick of this career path I choose, being a computer programmer. A couple of years ago it use to be all I was interested  in, through university to employment, I just loved working from one project to another, learning new stuff, showing off stuff I’ve done. But a couple of months ago I woke up one morning, and I just got sick of all this crap.

I’m sick of always staying up till 2am in the morning trying to find some stupid bug, I’m sick of always having to learn new stuff for work(we need you to learn how to do this Andréa,  we need you to learn how to write this Andréa, we need to switch to this technology, Andréa), I’m sick of deadlines (na beans, my boss, should come code some of these himself), I’m sick of dumb users who don’t know nothing, I’m sick of always sitting in from of da computer(started using glass last year) & I’m sick of always sitting down anyway,  I’m sick of never having time for myself, I’m sick of never having time for my BF,  I’m sick of my shitty pay, I’m sick of my shitty life. All thanks to me being a programmer, I just don’t think I’m cut out for this life anymore, just don’t know where all my passion for this went to.

Sometime I just want to quit and do something else, BUT WHAT? This is the only stuff I know, I’m stuck with this.  Told my mum she say a need a long break, like 3-4 month, but will need to look for a new job if I try that.
So, all of ya’all having fun doing this now pray you don’t end up like me. I know I’m going to quit this, just want to figure out what career I want do.
Well that’s that.

@pojutime
Yeah you can.

if your computer is not broken, double click on My Computer, you will see your hard drive marked as C:\ double click to access.

if its broken then your have to open your computer and look for the guy here: http://www.ptdd.com/datarecovery/images/hard-drive2.jpg or some thats looks alike. then disconnect.

if your hard drive is dead and your need to recover data in it, read this up http://www.ptdd.com/datarecovery/
then look for a proffessional.

@IG
What you need to do is fire the HR manager who hired this guy and fire the goat too!

My point is no one will hire just because you’re certified or something, but being certified is important, it could be the difference in you being called up for an interview or not to start with.
If your so good why not just get certified, it’s never going to hurt ya chances, it’s always going to be a plus for you. Apart from that other benefits that come with being certified for a particular technology like monthly newsletter, access to network of fellow certified professionals, updates on the latest technology, discounts and free software, come on! Get your a55 up and get certified boy.

@pojutime

Don’t know why you want to certify for MCAD, but if you have not already started I advice you to dump it and write the new generation certification programs (MCTS, MCPD). People I know that have MCSD&MCAD are writing upgrades exams to MCPD, so I don’t see the point. Apart from that don’t forget that VS2005 and .Net 2.0 which the new exams are based on are already 2 years, so don’t be surprised if Microsoft release VS2007 and .Net3.x or 4 later this year, then your MCAD will look pretty old.

Don’t know about these dumps, but try this forum I found these guys pretty resourceful.

http://www.sadikhov.com/forum/index.php?act=idx

chinedum:

It seems Nigerians are not keen on dotNET. How many Nigerians have MCAD for dotNET?

Where did you get that from anyway?

Most nigerians are not keen on any programming certification. It's mostly networking, Oracle.

Don’t know if you figured a way round your problem yet, but regards to your question, what you need to first understand is a datagrids data source, which could be a database, an xml file, a dataset, datatable, or collection object. When you learn to manipulate a datagrids data source you manipulate the data the grid displays.

First of all I’m assuming you’re talking about windows application datagrid not web, and you’re working with VS02 or 03 and .net framework 1.x.

So to programmatically add create and add data to a datagrid look at the following example.
Add a datagrid on a form and add this code in the load event of the form;


        'Create DataTable
        Dim dt As New DataTable("MyFavoriteArsenalPlayers"
        'Create and add Colums
        Dim tColumn As DataColumn
        tColumn = New DataColumn("ShirtNo", System.Type.GetType("System.Int16")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)

        tColumn = New DataColumn("FirstName", System.Type.GetType("System.String")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)

        tColumn = New DataColumn("LastName", System.Type.GetType("System.String")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)

        'Create rows and add row data
        Dim row As DataRow

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 4
        row("FirstName" = "Cece"
        row("LastName" = "Fabregas"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 11
        row("FirstName" = "Robin"
        row("LastName" = "Van Perise"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 13
        row("FirstName" = "Aliaksandr"
        row("LastName" = "Helb"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

        DataGrid.DataSource = dt

‘****************************************************

To Delete rows from the Datagrid use this code
dt.Rows.RemoveAt(i)

where “i” is the index of the row you want to remove. And I hope you see that I’m not maniputating the datagrid per say, but its data source.

Also you said how can I bind a textbox to a datagrid, I guess u meant how to manipulate a datagrid cell. You can do that using the following code.

Add a button control to the form and add this code in its click event;

        DataGrid1.Item(2, 1) = "Alexandra"
OR
Or you edit the cell within the datasource itself:

        Dim dt As DataTable
        dt = DataGrid1.DataSource
        dt.Rows(2)("FirstName" = "Alexandra"

To bind a datasource to a Textbox look and the following code snippet;
Add a 3 textboxes on a form and add this code in the load event of the form;

  'Create DataTable
        Dim dt As New DataTable("MyFavoriteArsenalPlayers"
        'Create and add Colums
        Dim tColumn As DataColumn
        tColumn = New DataColumn("ShirtNo", System.Type.GetType("System.Int16")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)

        tColumn = New DataColumn("FirstName", System.Type.GetType("System.String")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)

        tColumn = New DataColumn("LastName", System.Type.GetType("System.String")
        dt.Columns.Add(tColumn)
        'Create rows and add row data
        Dim row As DataRow

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 4
        row("FirstName" = "Cece"
        row("LastName" = "Fabregas"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 11
        row("FirstName" = "Robin"
        row("LastName" = "Van Perise"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

        row = dt.NewRow
        row("ShirtNo" = 13
        row("FirstName" = "Aliaksandr"
        row("LastName" = "Helb"
        dt.Rows.Add(row)

' make sure nothing is binded already
        TextBox1.DataBindings.Clear()
        TextBox2.DataBindings.Clear()
        TextBox3.DataBindings.Clear()

  ' bind the data to the textboxes
        TextBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", dt, "FirstName"
        TextBox2.DataBindings.Add("Text", dt, "LastName"
        TextBox3.DataBindings.Add("Text", dt, "ShirtNo"
‘*************************************************************
‘Run the app

Now when you bind data to a textbox you can only view one row at a time, to move to the next row you have to move the bindingcontext position to do that you have to create a CurrencyManager Object. (odd name but it has nothing to do with money) Example;

Add a button control to the form and add this code in its click event;

   
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim PositionManager As CurrencyManager
        PositionManager = CType(Me.BindingContext(dt), CurrencyManager)
        PositionManager.Position = PositionManager.Position + 1

    End Sub
You will have to make dt a global variable for this section to work.

Now the CurrencyManager’s Position property get's and set's the row position, so you add 1 to move forward and subtact 1 to move backwards.

I hope this helps you but there are lots of other ways you can do this, but they are all easy to understand just take your time.

@rock2
Your welcome.

@neroflick
Your making fun of this forum by asking such question.
If you cant write a code as simple as that u should not be posting
on this forum.

@akwanashie
Don’t know what country u are in, both I got my vs2005 from computer village for 2k!!
And I just finished my MCTS web, remaining Exam 70–547 to get MCPD-web, but this exam looks pretty difficult.
Goodluck

Funny no one has replied this, ‘cos I think you have asked a very good and important question, a question that I wish someone was there to answer for me couple a year ago when I first started I.T, ‘cos I ended up going round and round before I finally know what I wanted to do. I’m going to give you a couple of hints.

I think the first thing you need to do is decide is what career path you want to take, do you want to be a Web Programmer/Developer or a Software/System Programmer or both, Database Administrator/Developer, I.T Analyst/Consultant, Network/Systems Administrator. These could be broken down further but I’m going to stop at this.

Then you need to decide what technology vendor’s products and technologies you specialize in, now this part is pretty important and confusing, but in my view there’s really only two ways to go; the way of Microsoft [VB, C#,.net, asp, SQL Server, MS Access, Windows Servers & IIS, ] or the way of the others [Java, Perl, Delphi, Oracle, MySQL, JSP, CGI, Apache, Linux, Unix and all the other open source stuff] or both.

Now this is where it can all go wrong for you and where it all went wrong for me not knowing what set of technologies and language(s) to learn and master and the fact is you can’t know all.

But in my case I end up trying to learn too many stuff, though it’s not entirely my fault I put part of the blame on a couple of I.T guy I knew then who kept giving opposite and conflicting advice, I can still hear there voices [Olu: “VB is for kids do Java”, Ekene: “Microsoft is crap don’t learn anything Microsoft”, Kayode: “no, no, no, C++ is the Best”, David: “Andrea, leave all this programming and go into networking that’s where the money is”, Ekene: “and if you want to do networking don’t do anything Microsoft” Kayode: ”I think you should now switch back to VB.net, its now better than Java” Olu: “VB.Net is still for kids learn C#”] so round and round I went form COBOL to FORTRAN, VB to Java, Small Talk to C++, Window to Linux to UNIX, Perl to Asp to Jsp, SQL Server to MySQL and I can go on. And after 2 to 3 years I knew a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but knew non in-depth.

Then about 2½ ago I decide to go the Microsoft way and since then I only bother myself with tools and technologies that are either Microsoft or are Open Standard, and it’s a decision I have never regretted. I am not saying you should go with Microsoft Technologies ‘cos I don’t want to start a Microsoft Vs Others debate here, but whatever technologies or languages you chose to learn one thing you can be sure of is that there will always be a job for you.



Then certification, this depends on what career path you chose.
This is a complete list of all Microsoft certifications based on area of specialization;
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/default.mspx

Myself am a web developer, and if you chose to be a web developer supporting mostly Microsoft technologies here a list of what u need to learn and certified in;

Programming Language - Vb.net or C#, ASP 3.0, ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0
Scripting – JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, CSS -XML/XSL/XSLT
IDE’s - VS2003, VS2005, Dreamweaver
Graphics - Firework, Photoshop
Database- SQL Server 2k5, MS Access
Servers – Windows Pro XP – Server 2003, IIS

Certification - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) - Web
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/webapps/
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) – Web
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/default.mspx

Good luck.

Andrea
MCTS, MCP

[Quote]me for one i hate anything called Mircrosoft[/Quote]

Some of u guys are mighty funny, I bet this guy is using a Microsoft OS and running IE, without Microsoft where will the whole IT be. You might not be a fan of Microsoft development tools or technologies that understandable, I’m not a fan of others too but I’m sick of this “I hate Microsoft” crap.

Glad you found the links useful anyway.

Absolute rubbish post, who on earth are you to give such advice, tell people what to do
with their lives, what are you doing in the UK then, i know people who have gone to
the UK and are successful and i know people who have gone and are not. diffrent strokes for
diffrent folks.It all depends on the individual, the skill they have and their determination.and who
wants to own properties in another mans land like u anyway. what a hypocrite!
If you want to advice people try a topic like "Another Reason Nigerian Graduates
Should Consider Before Coming To England" not "Another Reason Why Nigerian Graduates Shouldn't
Come To England" my a55.

EBOOKS links that work, took be hours to track down these site,
omo guy, dont crash the site.

http://www.b213.net/index.php?id=asp
http://novian.web.ugm.ac.id/vbnet.php

gbengaijot:

Me self, am looking for dums on MCAD, av ou got any @andrea

Sorry, @gbengaijot the dumps i have on 305,306 are from last year, don't think they are still going to be current.

Try this for dumps http://www.b213.net/index.php?id=microso

Has anyone written the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Web

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/default.mspx

I have already written 70-306 & 305 for MCSD early this year be4 Microsoft decided to upgrade the exam, so i decided to wait and write the new one. Now i just got Visual Studio 2005 (i have been working with VS 2003 and .Net 1.1) and i have been playing around 4 a couple of days now and i'm excited by all the new server control for ASP.NET 2.0 like Membership,Roles,Profiles,Web Parts, 2 way data-binding, themes e.t.c.

I mean all this is cool, but it hit that with this new Zero Code concept, Wizards for all most  everything, i mean i can create a data driven, membership driven website without writting a single code. Microsoft must be trying to drive web programmers like me out of the job, my 13yrs old kid borther could do this.

That said does anyone have, brain dumbs on 70-536 or 70-528.

parosky:

Keep at it brother. If you consider the power it gives you and the ease of leaning together, you are probably on the best programming language. If you can let me know the part you have problem with I can check for some of my collection that treated it very well for you. There is no programming language that should trouble anybody that can read and write english language

You can check these websites for materials

www.xpressionsz.com/archives/category/programming/page/1
www.ebooksportal.org/category/it-ebooks/net/page/1

Its hopeless trying to download anything from here, u have premuim account or something

adewaleafolabi:

thanks does that mean code written i vb 2005 would be able to run on other os like linux because vb 6 stop only on windows. when it comes to speed vb has no rival when it comes to porting codes to other os i believe c would win

where have u been? microsoft have re-designed VB its now fully OOP and its just as good a C, and when it comes to porting to another platform its also possible because the whole idea behide .net is that its platform independant, all linux needs to have is the .net framework but i dont think microsoft will ever release a .Net framework for a rival platform like linux, but i think there's one for Mac OS and Palm OS.

@andre5, You are an air head. Every person has the right to be stupid, but you've abused that right.

"Air Head", "Right To Be Stupid" if you want to yab me stop yabbing like an oyimbo. try this "Goat Head" and nobody has the right to be stupid.

haywhy:

Gross Pay is about £30,000.
Income tax will be about £7,000
Council Tax £2000
VAT £2000
Car Tax and Insurance £1000

They are left with about £18000. Then they will pay rent or Mortgage 

£700/month=£7200/annum.

Remaining £9600 then minus feeding and entertainment cost

£200/month=£2400/annum.

Remaining £7200 you will them fuel your car, buy clothes and your girl friend

and family that are back home in Nigeria will cost you not less than £4000.

£3200 is what you are left with if you are lucky. My brothers and sisters UK no

easy. I don come UK see with my eye. I can never live in the UK. God forbid!!

Anyway Guys tell me what you all think. Thanks so much for reading my whole

story.

this post is whats wrong with us nigerians, a fresh graduate out of school
with an Bsc or Msc whateva no experience and before he even gets a 21k - 30k pounds job p.a for a start, his complaning and calculating, how much exactly do you want to be paid, 100 mila? ole come take!!
Has this guy never heard of working your way up the company ladder, if your 25 - 30 years and work hard on
that job for the next 10-15yrs, do you know how valuable you will be to that company, how much you will be earning and benifits, how much experience you will have by then, what position you would have atained,  instead you are calculating all this crap, don't worry go to china or go back to nija they will pay you your 100mila.

Both of them are crap, all they have are a bunch of average lecturer who only know half of what they are supposed to be teaching. My advice to you is if your new to computing or programming then they might be of some help, but if your not just buy books on what you want to learn.

DaSlEek:

Thanks All (Akolawole,VOR,andre5) I think I would have to apply on a new basis, New school,New identity because my past application as I can see it now can't be appealed against.But andre5 one more thing, If I am aplying to a university in the UK I would have to start with the Foundation programme because i can't be adimitted into any programme with my O'levels Or what do you think? and is paying in full mandatory?

Hey @DaSlEek, u serious? I was joking about the identity thing. What I was trying to say is that the fact that u have applied four time to some people show how committed & serious you are about this, but to those nutty ECO it show questionable desperation to enter the UK. The fact is u will never be given a visa to study in the UK until you satisfactorily shown them you can afford it and your sole purpose is to study. Even I question your motive now that you bought into this new identity thing, not to talk of those nutty ECO. My advice to you is to for get about the UK, who tha heck are they anyway, change your identity because of them no way. Why don’t you try Ireland, Canada, u even stand a better chance with the U.S. now.

one more thing, if people on this board won’t say it I will, because I believe I’m old enough to be your big sis, you say you finished sec school in 2002, you should be in at least year 1 of a local university or polytechnic, what have you been doing? And don’t give that JAMB excuse. those nutty ECO will be asking the same question. I just hope your desire to go abroad has not become some sort of an obsession, because it could cloud judgment and ones reality, its like you put all your eggs in one basket and focus on nothing else while your mates strive on, before you know it you’ve spent all this time trying to get into a university abroad when you could have graduated from one here, and the bulk of students going to the UK for study are mainly for Msc or 1 year Bsc top-up programmes leading to Msc, not year one Bsc or computer programmes. Now I’m speaking from experience, so you better take time and think about what exactly you’re doing with your time and get your act together. Good luck.

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@Akolawole no they did not say that in black and white, they said I could not explain my visit to volatile region, I went to the Indian part of Kashmir, I know India and Pakistan are at war over it, but I was just a tourist, there where British people there too. Don’t know what this has to do with my application; anyway I still have the tour company documents from India, and hotel receipts. I will reapply.

Hey @Akolawole what’s up? Don’t know if u still remember me. I didn’t get visa after 12 weeks, that’s how long my application took, the reason they gave was that “my passport did not represent my true travel history”, I have been to India a couple of time so I guess these guys spent all this time trying to find out where and why I went to India rather than just asking me. They even suggested that I could be some kind of terror threat! I went to India not Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.

Anyway I know that I should be appealing this decision because its ridiculous I even paid my tuition and accommodation in full, but I will reapply and submit all my air tickets I went to India with and document of where I went to if I’m refused again then I’m appealing.

You can please add any advice u have for me, I see you’re the visa consultant for Nairaland.

@ DaSlEek are u nuts to have applied 4 times? I’m gonna give u a simple advice STOP APPLYING. The BHC will not give u a visa if u are going to study a non-degree program, that means if u want to go to the UK to study for a HND, HNC, a Foundation Degree, any Diploma or computer program you will not get a Visa, unless u are been sponsored by a multi-national company or a big company in Nigeria on a short non-degree course and u have to work for the company. But of course the embassy will not tell u that they just want to keep collection ur money.

So if u still want to study in the UK u have to get a university and apply for a BSc programme. But I doubt the BHC will give u anyway because u already have a big file with them now. To apply again u have to get a new identity; new name, new weac/neco, new passport, pay your tuition & accommodation in full. Good luck.

I also believe there is some sort of scam being done by the British CH, this is why the requirement for applying for a student visa is not clearly spelt out by the BHC, if you check their website this is the requirement;
STUDENTS
o       Your qualifications/UK acceptance letter.

o       Current financial circumstances (as per visitors).

o       Evidence of sponsor's financial circumstances (as per visitors).

o       Letter from sponsor (if applicable).

Now this is pretty vague, a large amount of refusals base on finance, meet this requirement that’s why a lot of people keep applying for this visa. If the British high commission truly wants the number of applicant for student visa to drop, root out fake student, they need to come out with a clearly defined set of requirement and they know this, for instance to study in Ireland you need to pay your tuition in full, if the British HC includes this requirement the number of student application will drop by 70%, but they don’t want that we make them a lot of money. I was at a visa counseling session at the British council in May and the said that last year 34,000 students applied for student visa and this year they are expecting about 40,000, and the refusal rate was 77%.

Still the hundreds of UK universities keep coming here though the British Council and BHC to look for students who will be refused visa, so my point is the current requirements for a student visa is obsolete, they at the high commission know this, a most student who was refused this year would not have been refused 3 or 4 years ago, that because the requirements have changed but they don’t want to tell us what it is so we all can keep applying and making money for them.

If they truly want the only genuine student who can really afford a UK education to apply for these requirements should be added.

Pay your course tuition in full; I mean anyone who can afford to pay 4500 of a 9000 pound tuition and pay 4500 five months lather u should as well wait and pay the tuition in full, what’s the hurry.

Ban students going on non-degree courses like HND’s, HNC’s, Diploma Course, computer course, etc. the fact is this rule is already in place but they will not tell people, they need to just spill it out.

@ Donzman just leaves @MIZIEYA he or she is just a stupid gay, who da F does he think he is anyway typing essays up and down is he an ECO, I also am utterly disgusted at all his rubbish he’s even suggesting blacks are blaming the white man, and he makes mockery of other peoples faith, that blasphemous where did that come from. he’s probably one of those white supremacist that forget their black   I wonder what his looking for on this board, of all the topics here he just chooses to keep commenting here ‘because your lucky to be in your shoe u don’t want other to have it, arrogant freak u had better F off. I know u are going to write another essay on me be my guest, this is all I’m going to say on this, f, ing gay, and I know u love kissing white men.

Hi Eug, Congrats.  As for my application still no show but I got this mail from the embassy this morning.
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Thank you for your email dated 01st September 2006.

A decision has been made on your visa application on the 14th July 2006.
You may collect your package from VFS center.

Yours Faithfully,
Correspondence Unit
Visa section
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when i saw this i'm thinking WTF!! 14th of July!!! that 7 weeks ago,
I then called the VFS center and they said its not ready, i check it on their
website same thing. so i forwarded this mail to the VFS 'because i have
mailed them with my complaints before, so they can try a figure out where my application
is.
As far as i am concerned that mail is just horseshit, ‘because if I’m reading correctly they made a decision on the 14th of July, they did not say they forwarded it to the VFS on the same date. I think they just realized after all my mail to them how long they have been with my application and they probably forwarded my application to the VFS center today, so I am hoping I get it tomorrow or weekend or else am in big trouble because of all my docs.

I believe Eug got his after he mail them, so if your application is been over delayed you better start complaining now.

@ Akolawole and Eug

My application has now taken almost 8weeks, i have emailed the
the embassy with this same email address with all my detail about 9 days ago but they have
not responded. i applied personally at the Visa application center in Ikeja
and I’m tracking my application on their website (ukvac-ng.com), don’t know
what DVS your talking about means. I have gone back to the center and they said some application can take this long, i know ppl that submitted to the same center
same visa and the got a response in less than 3weeks, even though their application was
rejected.
Now the thing is I hope these guys have not lost my application cos i submitted
the original copy of all my qualification, as they asked, and my course starts in
4 weeks.

i'll keep u guys informed.

what? solitaire! free Cell!! minesweeper!!!, are those game or pass-time utillites ,
to me a game a purely SHOOT & KILL, i'm talkin' abt Half-Life 1&2 Halo1&2, DOom1,2&3
GTA1-6, now those are GAMES, so all you minesweeper and solitaire people plz GET A LIFE .

walelead:

6 weeks?

you should contact the British embassy to confirm about your apllication immediately, it normally takes a maximum of 3 weeks.
if they would give you or not, they should have contacted you. you may also double check your mails/letters.

thanks wale, just sent them an email. i hope nothing wrong with my application. thanks again

Hi guys, just want to know if any uk bound student got visas this summer 'cos it seems like the uk high commission is in an angry mood this time around. I heard that the refusal rate for student visas was 75% For last year thats 7k out of about 33k students and they expect it to be the same for this year. I would want to know for those who have applied for this year how long it took to process and if you were refused what was the reason given?

Hey guys, can anyone tell me how long it takes to get a uk student visa, i know its supposed to be 2 weeks or so, but i have submitted my application for over 6 weeks now and still on feedback. If anyone has applied for a student visa recently how long did it take? i'm beginning to get ticked off.