Not sure on your scripting website but there is an excellent book on WMI publised by Microsoft that talks about various system scripting. As for Symantec, I there there is a password reset tool on the CD. I know I have used one with the Symantec System Console MMC when I forgot a password before. If this is the for the SSC and you can't find it, let me know and I can see if I can locate it. -- modified at 16:40 Sunday 30th October, 2005

Look up the System.PopupWindows.ExpiryDateNotifyBallon class

Is this something new? Has it previously worked and now suddenly become unreliable? Or is this a new setup that just doesn't work properly? To state the obvious, just in case you missed something, all hosts must be in the same workgroup, and have IP addresses in the same subnet. Remove all protocols except TCP/IP, as unnecessary protocols can actually interfere with proper operation of TCP/IP. Select one PC - a reliable one, preferably - to be the Browse Master, and set the rest, including the notebook to LMAnnounce. This will result in excess packets on the network, but on such a small network you'll never notice it. You might also consider populating the lmhosts file on each host to contain the IP addresses of all the others, just to make sure there's a reliable means for each to resolve the others' addresses. In the case where this is a new problem on an existing setup, check cables. About 80% of problems of this type are caused by physical connection problems. Even if they look okay, cables can develop internal problems from being pulled too tight around a corner, having a chair leg placed on top of them, or simply dust building up inside the connectors. Wiggle them. You might also consider mapping shares as local drives on the laptop, and set them to automatically reconnect. This sometimes helps make connections to be more reliable. Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.

You can also find many samples of data-binding in the .NET Framework SDK, .NET Samples - Windows Forms: Data Binding[^]. Data-binding allows you to take a data source (a DataSet is a common and rich source), assign that to a control's DataSource property (if it has one, like the DataGrid), set a few other properties and that's it (in ASP.NET, it requires a call to a DataBind method). You can data-bind just about anything, though. The DataBindings property allows you to manually (not quite as easy as what I described above, but do-able) binding a control's properties to a data source. The .NET Framework provides data-binding "managers" for data sources and for properties (so you could binding two controls' properties together). See the documentation for the BindingManagerBase[^] class in the .NET Framework SDK for more information. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

The easiest place to synchronize the request is by using locking in the RDBMS, such as the MSDE or SQL Server (in which case use the System.Data.SqlClient classes for better support). There are many locking features and many ways to lock queries, so see the SQL Server documentation for more information. You can search MSDN[^] (the one-stop place for most or your Windows development information) for documents that discuss the differences between Java and C#. Keep in mind, however, that C# is just one of many languages that target the CLR. While languages differ in syntax and support of some features of the CLR, they can all access assemblies (including the FCL) written in any other managed language. So the differences you're looking for are between Java (the JVM) and .NET (the CLR), not just C#. The runtimes are completely separate, though they share common ideas like JIT'ing, garbage collection, and other facilities that OO runtimes utilize. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Hi , Find the exact line it occers. it says your object(may be oleDbConnection1 ) is still null, but your going to call its method. D!shan

ASGill wrote: how do i declare the variable?.. :eek: Yes. ASGill wrote: and also the forms are already opened. Well, you open them somewhere, they haven't open by magic , whenever you open second one use Show() instead of ShowDialog(). Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

Hi Where you Put int num3 = Convert.ToInt32(num2); Num2 turns to 0.because it has 0 as integer part.you better convert Num1 to Decimal !! or just Multiply Nme1 and Num2

thx Mike n Masud! with your help, i was able to do what i wanted to. thx again! CODER

OK. The loop now runs but your references in your if statement are still screwed up. Use this instead: bool FrmIsOpen = false; if (this.MdiChildren.Length > 0) for (int i=0; i < this.MdiChildren.Length; i++) { if (this.MdiChildren[i].GetType() == GetType(FrmPassword)) { FrmIsOpen = true; break; } } }   if (!FrmIsOpen) { FrmPassword r = new FrmPassword(); r.MdiParent = this; r.Show(); } The first bolded statement was changed because 'this.MDIParent' will always return null if 'this' is an MDIParent. This was changed to checking if the MDIChildren collection has anything in it. In the second bolded statement, the 'typeof()' reference was changed to 'GetType()'. If you have to, you could change this to 'Type.GetType()'. This should take care of your problem. RageInTheMachine9532

ASGill wrote: what's MDAC??... Microsoft Data Access Component. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=mdac&DisplayLang=en[^] If you use updated WinXP you have latest version already but it is not included in other OSes. Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

You could use .ToString() instead of (string) to see what you actually get. Could it be that Column[0] isn't the user type you expect? I think it would be more robust and easier to read if you used Password.Rows["UserType"][0] (or whatever your column's name is)... BTW, the first if clause is wrong :suss:. It won't get passwords that are too short. You should change && for ||. Regards, mav

aight....got it fixed... the oleDbDataAdapter.SelectCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); was a mistake...the code i posted was an earlier version of it...sorry... thx for the help guys :-D

At the button click event in form2 use objfrm3=new frm3(); objfrm3.MdiParent=this.MdiParent;//Assigns Parent of frm2 as parent of frm3 objfrm3.Show(); and regarding your problem of multiple forms opening use a counter to count no of instances of form and before instantiating check the value of the counter

DataSource Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

I think u can creat a panel and dock it a side first. Then put your buttons into it. Weiye Chen When pursuing your dreams, don't forget to enjoy your life...

Didn't I tell you before that you shouldn't use string concatenation for SQL queries? What in the hell do you think the OleDbParameter and SqlParameter are for? ADO.NET introduces parameterized expressions which take ALL of the encoding work out of your application. Got a quote in one of your variables? With your way, you have to parse your values and make sure they quotes are escaped or encoded. With parameterized queries, you don't have to worry about it. Besides, massive string concatenation like you're doing is a drastic performance decrease, resulting in (m-1)O(2n) times where m is the number of strings and n is the characters in each string. See the OleDbParameter[^] class documentation in the .NET Framework SDK for more information and an example. Most likely, not escaping or encoding your string values is what's causing that error since the string is generated and sent to the database engine AS IS. Also, don't prompt the user before executing the query! First of all, it's annoying. Second of all, if you open the connection before prompting and they don't respond for a while (why would they think they need to answer such a stupid dialog - no other program does it; they just work). The connection gets closed and your call to ExecuteNonQuery throws an exception. Also, put your _connection_.Close in the finally block to make sure it gets closed on success or failure (exception). Microsoft has recommended this time and time again if you actually read the .NET Framework SDK. The finally block will always run regardless of whether or not an exception was thrown (always except for when Environment.Exit is called, which unloads the CLR - and your application - immediately). Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

ASGill wrote: so im using System.Data.SqlClient...can this work with SQL SERVER 7.0 databases Yes, it works with SQLServer 7 and later. ASGill wrote: i read in a book(C# How To Program by Deitel & Deitel) that System.Data.SqlClient only for SQL SERVER 2000 databases Nope. ASGill wrote: i dont have System.Data.OleDb in the list when intelisense pops up...is something wrong Go to project references and add System.Data namespace. Mazy You're face to face, With the man who sold the world - David Bowie

A DataSet is a disconnected recordset. All the data is contained in the DataSet so you don't need to fetch from the server again. This makes serialization (either to a file or for Web Services / Remoting) easy, as well as using diffgrams (change records in a DataSet) to update a data source using a DataAdapter ( or handling it yourself :eek: ). See the section on ADO.NET in the .NET Framework SDK for more information. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles