antoine@orchus-tech wrote: How can I have the app's main Form(the ui) get modified by those other classes? How do you modify a form's progress bar from another class? Your classes are not getting instantiated by the form??? The form could grab this info from the classes after they are created. If you need info established in a class and passed around then you could make that class using the Singleton pattern which involves alot of static methods and getter/setters. If the form must be modified from outside, then you expose public accessors (getter and setter) for internal fields and pass reference to that form to everyone from the central controller in the app. antoine@orchus-tech wrote: How do you modify a form's progress bar from another class? Go to the C# projects in this site and search for SplashScreen. There is one that is really good and demonstrates the ability of having a smooth status bar based on actual event timings. My class design is as such main form --> loads main class (contains some static methods etc main form --> loads splash screen main form --> calls each init step notifying SplashScreen of event end main form completes init --> calls SplashScreen with 'all done' event splash screen goes away. main form loads MainForm and shows it. Notice that the main class is still around and everything spawned by the main form has access to that class and its' methods. This is similar to the global thing in VB6 but a purer object approach. Search the net for c# patterns and then check on the Singleton pattern for more info. ______________________________ The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to ten thousand languages. Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao. Beauty exists because we give a name to C#. Bad exists because we give a name to COBOL.

Oh... The behaviors that you described are default to Windows MDI apps. You could remove those buttons from your MDI Child and put a button or some other UI on your panel to handle the close, min, and max events. As far as constraining the child's movement, you could do calculations to find the size of the parent window and then calculate how much the top area (titlebar, menubar, panel) takes up. Then constrain the children forms using that info. I hope this helps. Happy Programming and God Bless! Internet::WWW::CodeProject::bneacetp

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Just FYI... Most CD copy protection schemes really just end up making some legitimate customers unhappy in the longrun (in other words, the protection causes some people who bought the software to not be able to run it). I, for one, do not think the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. -David St. Hubbins

First retrieve logical disks, If one of them has driveType 5 then it is a cdrom. Try to locate a file that you know your cd-rom contains. you should also use System.Management in your code, i mean add it in references section of your project. Here is the code: ManagementClass disks = New ManagementClass("Win32_LogicalDisk"); ManagementObjectCollection moc = disks.GetInstances(); ManagementObject mo; foreach(mo in moc){ if(mo["DriveType"].ToString() == "5"){ if(System.IO.File.Exists(mo["Name"].ToString + "\somefile.ext"){ MessageBox.Show("Correct disk in cdrom drive") } } } disks.Dispose() I hope this helps Don't forget, that's Persian Gulf not Arabian gulf!

build the solution first!?! Hit the wee play button in the toolbar, or Debug->Start.

Thanks! I dont really know what I did, but now it works. And for now, that's enough for me. I'll dig in later, thans! Antoine (prononced Antwone) This by our hands that dream, "I shall find a way or make one!"

You have the right idea, but it depends on your actual XML. I suggest getting the node directly and looking at it. This will help answer your question. DogCat XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Prenom"); node.Value == null node.InnerText == "Dog"

Hi Phillip, Ok. So I am trying to display the firstname of the first contact in the Contact.xml file... XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument(); myDoc.Load(Application.StartupPath + "\\Contact.xml"); txtfirstname.Text = myDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Contact[1]//firstname").Value; What am I missing? I am trying to find a good XPath resources, but its hard. MSDN doen't do it for me up to now. thanks :) Antoine This by our hands that dream, "I shall find a way or make one!"

That wraps it up preaty niely ;-) Thanks everyone, Furty! Antoine This by our hands that dream, "I shall find a way or make one!" great quote heh? ;)

Orlanda Ramos wrote: Get a C# Windows Service installed silently ... that gathers the components' names of the target computer Silently install a possibly public web service? No, thanks. Orlanda Ramos wrote: ...sends back a DLL... Another silent installation of executable code? No, thanks. Your application might be safe to sell for you, but the user is at the whim of your company, your code security and every hacker on the 'net, because you introduced a slew of security holes. If any application would do this kind of dangerous, annoying and extensive license verification, it's probably not worth using. Ironically, Windows XP introduced seemingly similar techniques. But at the heart, they are different.

http://www.netquartz.fr/ Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's name and password. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's clipboard.

Add the using System.Xml; line of code to the top of your project. This will allow you to use most of the xml .Net classes. The XmlDocument, XmlNode, XmlNodeList, XmlElement, and XmlAttribute classes are the ones you'll use the most.

im no expert, but isnt that what the SendMessage :~ . look it up in MSDN. 1001111111011101111100111100101011110011110100101110010011010010 Sonork | 100.21142 | TheEclypse

Set the uiMode property of Media Player to none :-) Cheers, Kannan

Anonymous wrote: frmPISmain.ActiveForm.Hide(); frmPISContact.ActiveForm.Show(); the following would be better : frmPISmain.Hide(); frmPISContact childForm = new frmPISContact(); childForm.Show();

Well, what is your application main form? What form do you use in Application.Run()? Or don't you use a MessageLoop? It's still not clear to me what you are actually trying to do. Key question is: Do you need to open Form_2 from Form_1? Or can you just do something like this: Form Form_1 = new Form(); Form Form_2 = new Form(); Form_1.ShowDialog(); Form_2.ShowDialog(); When the first dialog gets dismissed, the second one is shown. hth You'll never master any language, except maybe VB, because there's nothing to it. (Lounge/Christian Graus) www.mattbart.org Sonork ID: 100.32002

You can create an install project using VS.NET. This will handle installing the files for your app. In order to install the .NET framework you need to look for the bootstrap application that MS has written. It basically checks to see of the framework is installed, installs it by running dotnetfx.exe (which can be downloaded from MS), and then runs your .msi install package. The bootstrapper sample is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/830/msdncompositedoc.xml[^] This would probably make a good little CP tutorial. Joel VssConnect - Remote SourceSafe(r) Access http://www.voxcode.com[^]