C#

i want to know function that its role is setrop2 i making drawing tool. but i didn't find it

No worries Youngar, I also struggled at first and I am a born and bread englishman. The # does not refer to the word "hash" (as used in numbers) as I first thought but apparently to some component of writing music (how that relates to programming I have no clue). You pronounce it "See Sharp". regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org

If anybody does, it's unlikely they'll be talking about them, as the BETA2 EULA prohibits publishing benchmark results.

Variable length structures aren't something you can do directly from C#; the marshaller wasn't designed to handle them. Your best bet is to write a wrapper using the Managed Extensions to C++, and then call it from C#. If you send me some email, I'll send you a powerpoint presentation and some sample code I did a while back. Eric EricGu@microsoft.com

No, all C# applications require the runtime.

You can use DX8 from C#. Look on http://discuss.develop.com/ in the DOTNET newsgroup for a discussion; there's a problem with the DX8 typelib as shipped.

More RAM is definitely more important than CPU speed. I like 256MB, though 512MB can also make in improvement in speed (and RAM is pretty cheap these days).

The only available implementation of C# is in Visual Studio.NET Beta 1

If you need to be totally free-form in your functions, you'll want to use reflection to call the functions. Type.InvokeMember will probably do what you want, but be warned that it's fairly slow, as it has to do a lot of work to figure out what function you want to call. If your problem has enough regularity in the number and types of parameters, you could write a delegate for each function type, store those in a hashtable, and then look them up based on the function name. This would be a lot faster than using reflection, but more work.

Here are the ones I know of: Visual Studio.NET and SlickEdit

You can develop applet like functionality by developing controls with WinForms. You can deploy them like ActiveX controls on web pages, in Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. See http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/iesourcing.aspx for more.

Why would you want to use this? In .NET, messages are a platform thing. Try creating your own custom event instead. Rich.T.

Just being new is not generally enough. There have been enough new technologies over the last few years to boggle even the most capacitive mind. The benefits of C# for COM developers are best viewed in the broader discussion of the CLR: The IL that .NET compilers generate (and which the CLR executes) is easier to generate and resolves to more optimizable code than Java ByteCode offers :cool:. But even more importantly for traditional Windows developers, the CLR offers several benefits, not least of which is that the code your normal compilers generate is (usually) tuned against the lowest common denominator (typically the 80386) - with the CLR, it compiles code specifically tuned against the processor of the machine on which the code is run. This will result in a performance increase which will more than compensate for the small performance penalty exacted by the protection and safety mechanisms provided by the CLR's execution engine (which do provide an immesurably more reliable environment for your apps). At the end of the day, as a COM developer (particularly if you're a C++ dev-head), the chances are that you spend more than 60% of any project writing and maintaining plumbing code. In C# (or any other .NET supported language) most of the plumbing goes away, leaving you to write your applications rather than custom marshallers etc. Once you've spent more than a few days coding in C#, you'll never go back. Enjoy! :-D Rich.T.