1. There should be Freedom of speech on presenting new architecture's at design time. 2) Scalability of the software should always be kept in mind while designing. 3) Coders (Programmers) should be judged on the basis of knowledge and not age or seniority. 4) Feedback about an Architect/Programmer should be concluded on the basis of "Whether his software component worked or not" and not how good he was at buttering his immediate manager.

Nice Food for Thought...

Hi Sanjeev, IMHO Few are the ways that comes to my mind. -> Identify the target customers, that you will be makeing your product for. -> It will be a good idea to approach a few potential customers and have tips frm them on, what all new features they would like to have -> Built in the flexibility to customized your prouct for the select few clients, and do mention about its customization features in the Product Display Session -> Try to have some feature that's are not available in competitor's products. -> With product related to "Employee Related Data". Do make sure that Data retrival speeds are up to the mark. Do advertise about your produce thats the most imp part, there are alot of grate proucts out there, but what they lack is there, lack of avertisiment on right forums. Don't wait for the customers, rather be pro-active in identifying the customers and walking to them. Last but not lease BEST OF LUCK :) Thanks, Anshul

I am inserting string into Excel file Using ADO .Execute fn(). It copies d first 3 records frm .txt file which r of size 20-30 char but as soon d 4th record which is 150 char long with special char is encountered it gives (((error:The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add.Try inserting or pasting less data..))) I manually changed the Format of Field frm text to General in Excel file and copy it so it worked but... how to go about programatically without changing from text to general the file format Codes: SQL.Format("INSERT INTO [Sheet1$] values('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '', '')", sJobName, sMID, sDT, sAN, sTitle); m_pConXLS->Execute(_bstr_t(sSQL), NULL, adCmdText); Thnx in Advance Casper2080

Hi All, I have created many application on VC++ 4my company for there Networking department that allows me to view a remote desktop on my LAN using Socket client and server application (WinSock 1.1) . Here what i do is i install the server on the remote machine then i captures the desktop using SDK fn(),s and then passes it byte by byte using send() and recv() fn's. I even hide my server application from task manager so that it is not visible and i make it start up thru registery so the admin has installed it on all the computers. they passes the ip adderss and justs connect it using client application Now My Question is Can there be some way on LAN where i can access remote desk top without installing the server program??? Could the Answer be accessing some Remote Procedural Call (RPC's) Which topic or fn,s do i need to study?? I read that there r softwares which allows the Admin on LAN to moniter a computer without installing the server program.. They r some stand alone programs Which topic or fn,s do i need to study?? Thnx in advance Comboy2080

Hi All, Is there a fn() in SDK to list all the Computers names on LAN (Windows NT/2000) Thnx in Advance Comboy2080

Can u plz tell me fn() which retrives packets sent and received information which is displayed in the Local Area Connection Setup (which is in the task bar in the right hand side corner). Thnx in Advance Comboy2080

Hello All, Can some one tell me the Win32 API fn() or fn()'s used to calculate the bandwidth consumption of our computer. I am on NT platform and using VC++6.0 compiler. Thnx in Advance Comboy2080