I am torn with the operations of the Child Care Centre… Right now I am trying to do a good job on the board of management, but realistically I am being stymied at every turn. I am trying to get the information so that I can make informed decisions about things, and at every turn I am being obstructed. And this takes time to resolve. I go looking to get copies of the files so that I can work out what is going on, and I get told that I cannot have access for what seems like specious reasons.

This is disconcerting to say the least. My own business has a simpler and more understandable structure. Most small businesses I know of have a simpler structure. I guess I am slightly disillusioned. I suppose all I can do is keep working on what I know about, and keep at it, ignoring any total rubbish that I am told. Trust but verify. And keep pushing… It is NOT supposed to be like this.

Thankfully some things are going sort of OK. I have had a bug report when you export to a database using a FILE BROWSER helper button. When you use such a button to choose a file to save to, the default directory for the application is thrown off. This causes all sorts of issies. It took me ages to find how to correct this issue. And when I thought I had fixed it I really had not… The answer was…
Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath)
What this does is gets the full path to the executable and then throws away the local filename of the executable. So simple. Well, maybe NOT!