Roger, thanks for your reply. my initial problem statement is a little bit simplified... in actuality the two calls vary wildly in the project. For example, 110 inc's and 140 dec's. However, with the aid of some flags and using an array to track which modules are making the calls I have been able to balance the code such that dec count == inc count by the time the executable is finished. I am actually really pleased with the implementation. So much so that I will keep the code in place and let it trigger only when an environment variable is set so that I can debug this problem if it shows up again :-)

that works great =) thanks, Alan N

I found an example where the client specifies credentials: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.security.protectionlevel.aspx[^] but I'm not happy that the client needs to know the username and password of the machine that the server is running on. If I have to store username and password for various machines in my exe.config then that seems impractical. I guess I will just go back to using TcpClient.Connect() and encrypting the data myself prior to transmission. :((

passing the TcpClient object around and calling GetStream() once in the read thread and once in the write thread worked just fine. Since I found this out I have updated my code to use a secure socket and now I'm passing around a NegotiateStream object (but no need to call GetStream) :)

abiemann wrote: a singleton was purely for good design I agree with Luc. Singletons are rarely a good design.

Access and SQL Server will both be fine as a back end then... I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! Booger Mobile (n) - A bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - our entry into the Camp Quality esCarpade!! Do something wonderful - make a donation to Camp Quality today!!

As I am unexperienced in WPF, I won't be able to help you. Sorry. :) Luc Pattyn Have a look at my entry for the lean-and-mean competition; please provide comments, feedback, discussion, and don’t forget to vote for it! Thank you. Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!

There is ColorConverter, which is the TypeConverter WPF uses. this.Background = new SolidColorBrush((Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#00FF00"));

This code will work, so long as it works. That is, you never check if window2 is null, or if oWindow1 is null. You should check to make sure that everything is in the state you are hoping. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Actualheight is not updated at all (it stays fixed to whatever value it is set to at design time), so I did this: 'load images according to configuration Dim BitmapImageHeader As New Imaging.BitmapImage BitmapImageHeader.BeginInit() BitmapImageHeader.UriSource = New Uri(strLogoFilepath, UriKind.Absolute) BitmapImageHeader.EndInit() ImageLogo.Source = BitmapImageHeader ImageLogo.Height = ImageLogo.Source.Height I then recalculated the margins for the rest of the controls and I was done. I thought I had read that actualheight is always correct... maybe I remembered it wrong ? heh

abiemann wrote: So it seems there's no 64bit driver to access an Access 2007 DB ? True, at this time there is no 64-bit drivers for a Jet database (Access). Since you cannot mix 64 and 32 bit code in the same process, you have no choice but to compile your app forced down to 32-bit only. If you used any of the SQL Servers, including SQL Server Express Edition, you wouldn't have this problem. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

that is very nice! My brain got stuck on using a canvas and a rectangle. thanks for the help !

I get the Proxy Authentication only when using NUnit; the same code works fine when invoked in the real environment. Anyway, adding the following lines makes it work in NUnit: IWebProxy proxy = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy(); proxy.Credentials = (System.Net.NetworkCredential)CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; request.Proxy = proxy;

nice! pThis->CpMessage(chTempText,0); compiled and linked without a hitch.:thumbsup:

abiemann wrote: Is it possible to increase or decrease the brightness of a display (digital display connected via DVI) using API calls ? I know NVidia has software that automatically does all that for you, so it is quite possible :). How - I don't know. Mark Brock "We're definitely not going to make a G or a PG version of this. It's not PillowfightCraft." -- Chris Metzen Click here to view my blog

IA64 is Itanium. x64 is AMD64 (and EM64T - Intel's implementation of AMD64). The target market for Itanium is tiny because Itanium was a colossal failure. If you use a processor like an Athlon, Opteron, Xeon, Core 2, Core i7 and so on, it will be using x64 (AMD64/EM64T). If you buy 64bit Windows (such as XP 64 bit or Vista 64 bit) it will be x64. You can't use IA64 on an x64 platform, so you need the x64 (probably labelled AMD64) versions of these libs, not the IA64 ones, which is exactly what the first error says. I can't find these either (I only have x86 no matter what I try to install) so if you find/have found these 2 libs, please let me know :) Never mind, found it. modified on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:12 PM

to answer my original question.... this looks promising http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828736/en-us?spid=1249&sid=122[^]

abiemann wrote: right, but we don't use log-in accounts on the PCs at home; So I guess you want me to reply with the obvious: "Then set them up and start using them". Well I'm not going to. ;P led mike

The code you posted does nothing to prevent flicker. I've been through your code and made some modifications to fix the flicker. Having a picture control behind all the other controls is the problem. It prevents you from clipping the other controls to prevent flicker. I added the WS_CLIPCHILDREN style to the dialog, deleted the picture control from the dialog's resource, and instead draw the bitmap to the window in response to WM_ERASEBKGND. This way, Windows automagically clips all the child controls, so you don't have to redraw them on every timer event. Shoot me an email here and I'll send the changes in a reply. BTW, the code leaks GDI resources on every timer event :) I didn't look for those leaks. Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

I've tried the following within ::OnInitDialog() this->ModifyStyle(0, WS_CLIPCHILDREN); but then nothing in the Dialog updates