Mark Nischalke wrote: You could make it a HTA. Write a HTML page and change the extention to hta. Perfect... that method had slipped my mind. -AC MCDBA http://www.aconnell.com

I'm writing a little application and using IE as my interface (HTML, VBScript, behaviors, etc). What I'd like to do is have the user execute a script that loads IE with a default page but no menubar, toolbar, addressbar, status bar, or any of the IE branding. Basically, I'm trying to simply get my application to start in a browser, but not give them any of the options locally. This application will be started locally... NOT launched over the web. It's similar to the MS Baseline Security Analyzer, except that it won't be launched via an exe. Has anyone been able to do this? -AC MCDBA http://www.aconnell.com

Look in the deployment projects... there's a real easy way to add it. Not 100% sure how to implement something such as an "OPEN" when the file is 2x-clicked. -AC MCDBA http://www.aconnell.com

Paul Watson wrote: no, not those kind of fruit cakes all you sickos Hahaha, nice touch. Now I just need to find my info on each of the parsers (which one has the flaky XSL parser). -AC

YOU ARE THE MAN! I'm sending you a fruitcake this year! -AC

A long time ago, I found an article on MSDN that had all the info for what version of the MSXML parser was included with what version of IE. Does anyone have a referece such as this? It was something as simple as: IE v4.0 contains MSXML2 IE v4.1 contains MSXML2 ... IE v6.x contains MSXML3 (???) Writing an app and if I know what version of XML was included with what version of IE (which is the standard browser), I know where to start. Know I'll need this in future apps. Thanks! AC -AC

I have a developer background, but in a new job, I fell into the role of security expert for Microsoft's SQL Server (v7 & 2000) and IIS (v4 & 5). I am contracted to a US Dept. of Defense agency. When they were doing a big security push, they didn't have any IIS or SQL Server "experts/gurus." I'm no self-proclaimed expert, but because I was familiar with both thanks to my MCDBA cert, I was tasks with locking them down. In the last few months, I've learned quite a bit about security on these to systems. The military bases their security off the specifications created by a group of software companies & govt agencies such as Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, CIA, and the NSA. There's a gold & platinum standard. These standards are used by many of the people in the private sector... the military uses the platinum standard. What is thethe point of this posting? I was thinking about writing a few articles based on this security. Would this be something of interest to others? -AC

I have a 3-box network at home... a Win2k Server (used as a file server and IIS/SQL host), a desktop running Win2k Server and a laptop running Win2k Server (used to have Pro). I've been debating on moving the laptop to WinXP Pro but my concern has been it's capabilities as a development platform. The more and more I see screenshots and attend seminars, the more I see WinXP. I love the look and feel, just concerned about using it as a development platform (also to watch DVDs). I'm toying wiht the idea of putting WinXP on it and if I don't like it, just putting Win2K Pro back on (need those power managment features). Does anyone have any opinions or input about using WinXP Pro on a laptop when the primary use of the laptop is development (VS.NET/PhotoShop/Illustrator/OfficeXP)? What about WinXP Pro's power managment features on a laptop? Thanks, -AC

I have a 3-box network at home... a Win2k Server (used as a file server and IIS/SQL host), a desktop running Win2k Server and a laptop running Win2k Server (used to have Pro). I've been debating on moving the laptop to WinXP Pro but my concern has been it's capabilities as a development platform. The more and more I see screenshots and attend seminars, the more I see WinXP. I love the look and feel, just concerned about using it as a development platform (also to watch DVDs). I'm toying wiht the idea of putting WinXP on it and if I don't like it, just putting Win2K Pro back on (need those power managment features). Does anyone have any opinions or input about using WinXP Pro on a laptop when the primary use of the laptop is development (VS.NET/PhotoShop/Illustrator/OfficeXP)? What about WinXP Pro's power managment features on a laptop? Thanks, -AC

We've all seen the various stages of development for a product... alpha, beta, release candidate, release to manufacturer. I'm looking for something that does a good job of explaining EXACTLY what each stage involves. So many times you see people just talk about their software listed as Beta and RTM. My team is working on a new project and our customer has requested we use this staged development. Anyone have a good reference out there? -AC

GriffonRL- Have you had success in trapping the navigation events in the browser? -AC

I got a reply to my similar posting on GotDotNet[^] by an MS guy. He has a work around that seems VERY easy and not too hacky. :-D What he said he did is to use a 'fake' hyperlink and used the BeforeNavigate2 event to find out what the hyperlink URL is. I'm going to try this as it seems like a good solution for me. My URL will be a flag like <a href="OpenCollection.1"> and I'll just have a switch statement inside my BeforeNavigate2 event handler method. -AC

StephaneRodriguez wrote: I know that's hard using C++ already, but trying to do it using C# is just harder. Thanks... looks like I need to keep looking because C++ is greek to me. You got me going in the right direction. Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

I took a look at the Driller, but it didn't help me as much as I had hoped. Lemme give it a shot... StephaneRodriguez wrote: add window.external.myMethod calls So.... the onclick event is easy... is the syntax just: ![](sample.gif) StephaneRodriguez wrote: Now in your app hosting the web browser, you have a IDispatch interface exposing myMethod(), and this will get automatically called. So... that code would look something like (in C#)... public void Button1Clicked(string p1, string p2) : IDispatch { MessageBox.Show("Dynomite!"); } Sorry... this is greek to me... thanks for your first post :) Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

I'm trying to create something similar to the start page for my application. I'd ideally like to have a table with small icons that I can trap the OnClick event. The contents of the table are dynamic. One option is to make a webcontrol of sorts that I fill with HTML. Problem is how to trap those events. Prefer to do it without IE (just another control to check for on the install). I would like to stay away from the WinForm grid control and have something more along the lines that looks similar to the VS.NET start page or the Groove Welcome page (http://www.groove.net/products/popup/workspace/welcome.html). Any ideas? Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

What about "Developers Lounge" and "Off-Topic Soapbox" Moderators in the Devleopers Lounge could nix off topic posts. For some reason, I think this thread is going to take on a life similar to the media reporting on the media... "Is the media responsible for the increase in child kidnappings? Story at 11p" Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

Whoa.. is the source code for these forums available for download? Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

Yikes!:eek: That's something I definatley don't want to get into. I'd much rather deal with the native DataRow objects than manually add each item into the typed object. That seems like a TON of overhead. If I find anything I'll be sure to post it. In the meantime, I'm investigating MAPPING and merging the two different types. If I can do that in my data access layer/components, and just continue on with the application development, then I'm fine with that. Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

Sorry for cross-post... realized this is the more appropriate group after I sent the first one: I've created a strongly typed dataset but whenever I try to select rows from a table and try to cast the rows, I'm getting an error "Specified cast is not valid.". I have a table named "Inventory". I'm able to select rows and place them in a variable with type DataRow[]. However, when I try to cast it to a InventoryRow, I get errors every time. Here's the code: my dataset name is PADS... working code: DataRow[] recordArray = this._dataSet.Inventory.Select(); error code: PADS.InventoryRow[] recordArray = (PADS.InventoryRow[])this._dataSet.Inventory.Select(); I'm certain I'm using the correct variable names because I'm able to easily create new records with the following: PADS.InventoryRow record = this._dataSet.Inventory.NewInventoryRow(); this._dataSet.Inventory.AddInventoryRow(record); Any input would be greatly appreciated! Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com

I've created a strongly typed dataset but whenever I try to select rows from a table and try to cast the rows, I'm getting an error "Specified cast is not valid.". I have a table named "Inventory". I'm able to select rows and place them in a variable with type DataRow[]. However, when I try to cast it to a InventoryRow, I get errors every time. Here's the code: my dataset name is PADS... working code: DataRow[] recordArray = this._dataSet.Inventory.Select(); error code: PADS.InventoryRow[] recordArray = (PADS.InventoryRow[])this._dataSet.Inventory.Select(); I'm certain I'm using the correct variable names because I'm able to easily create new records with the following: PADS.InventoryRow record = this._dataSet.Inventory.NewInventoryRow(); this._dataSet.Inventory.AddInventoryRow(record); Any input would be greatly appreciated! Andrew Connell, MCDBA IM on MSN andrew@aconnell.com