The History function of my new TeamTrack application is done, although of course there were a couple of complications. There always are – this would not be programming without them! The first one was needing to sort a dataset in VB.NET. The quick answer is that this is impossible. The slightly longer answer is that you move the data into a DataView and then sort it. This is an easy fix.

The other issue is that the retrieval functions only seem to work with whole days. If I tell it that I want all the position reports between midnight and now it will round the now back to midnight and not return any records. I am guessing that this is a bug in the webservice and not my code, so I have emailed the author and I will get this fixed. Until then I just need to add another day to the end date and it will sort of work.

Right now though I am watching Hey Day! on cable whilst doing some other work… And I have not seen such big over-acting in such a LONG TIME. You can see the characters acting up to the camera… Even worse, Martin the Architect speaks to the camera at times. I am so glad that comedy has moved on since then… The show is still really funny, but things have matured a bit since this was made.