*Experts* Merrion Posted March 30, 2003 *Experts* Posted March 30, 2003 OK - the .Net Prin chComponent is done and dusted. Any thoughts on an appropriate price? Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Gurus* Derek Stone Posted March 30, 2003 *Gurus* Posted March 30, 2003 How many hours have gone into it? The appropriate price is the highest one that most people would be willing to pay to purchase your product, so think along those lines. What would you pay to get a copy? For something like this I wouldn't go any higher than 30 US Dollars-- something around 20 bucks would be a realistic asking price, that is if I'm picturing the component's functionality correctly. Quote Posting Guidelines
*Experts* Merrion Posted March 30, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted March 30, 2003 How many hours have gone into it? About 35 hours but about 50% of that was learning curve related. Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Gurus* Derek Stone Posted March 30, 2003 *Gurus* Posted March 30, 2003 Well, if you sell 90 copies at 20 bucks a pop you will have easily covered a rate of $50/hour. Quote Posting Guidelines
*Experts* Merrion Posted March 30, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted March 30, 2003 Sounds good except it'd take a futher 35 hours to get the money in ;) Still - the beta and documentation are here if anyone wants a look-see... Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Experts* Merrion Posted April 8, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted April 8, 2003 Updated - the component will set you back EUR50 for a single developer license and EUR 350 for a site license (with source code). Now to hook up with a distributor..... Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Experts* Merrion Posted April 18, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted April 18, 2003 There's a new version up on the site that exposes the print job collection (so you can iterate through it and do whatever) and the printer information (status i.e. out of paper, off line etc and location, comment, job count etc.) and it's licensed until 2003-06-06 if anyone would like to give it a look-see ;) Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
Leaders Banjo Posted April 25, 2003 Leaders Posted April 25, 2003 I have to say I'm surprised that the .Net framework does not already provide this sort of functionality. On a usage note I for one would not want to have to distribute MerrionComputing.info to my customers. And why do you need Toolbox.bmp? Can it not be compiled into the assembly? Quote Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't!
*Experts* Merrion Posted April 25, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted April 25, 2003 Originally MerrionComputing.info was a custom licensing requirement - but I have removed this. Just haven't updated the documentation as my upgraded version of Document!X hasn't arrived. There are lots of holes in the .Net framework that still require API coding - for example there seems to be no way to add/remove users from user permissions from a DACL without recourse to the AddAccessAllowedAce type API stuff. I'm sure the framework will support this as soon as I have committed another hundred hours to getting it working :(... Do you know how to compile the toolbox bitmap into the application? The attribute <ToolboxBitmap()> seems to require a filename, which is a bit odd. I suppose the default component bitmap isn't too bad anyway... Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
Leaders Banjo Posted April 25, 2003 Leaders Posted April 25, 2003 No, I have no idea, not having done any serious work with .Net yet. It just seemed like a weird thing to omit. Hang on, why'd you need a toolbox icon distributed anyway. I assume that the license does not allow your customers to pass on the dev license to third party developers from their clients. Quote Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't!
*Experts* Merrion Posted April 25, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted April 25, 2003 (edited) I've added the "compile the toolbox icon into the component" to the ever expanding todo list...apparently it is done like this.... Edited April 25, 2003 by Merrion Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Experts* Merrion Posted May 6, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted May 6, 2003 In case anyone is interested, version 1.1 (the first "Release" build ) was posted today. Numerous bug fixes and enhanced operation. Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Experts* Merrion Posted May 14, 2003 Author *Experts* Posted May 14, 2003 Version 1.3 is up now ... enjoy Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
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