No, it would not be a CLR issue. For one, the CLR is the same - for the most part - for all supported platforms. There are small differences, like that the CLR on 9x will thunk Unicode text, but understand that most of the Windows Forms controls are just encapsulating the Windows Common Controls. They are not - except for a few like DataGrid and many of the upcoming new controls in .NET 2.0 - implemented "natively" (i.e., not as pure .NET classes). This is to provide a consistent UI with the rest of Windows. It could be a problem with the underlying Tab-Control common control. Reproduce the steps using a native application that uses the Tab-Control and see if you see the same problem. Also make sure your system is up-to-date by visiting Windows Update. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

Use DTS or simply sp_detach_db, copy the mdf & ldf files to the new server, and sp_attach_db. Michael I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

As covered on this forum many times before (which is why the "Search comments" link above exists), not all MAPI clients support every syntax. It wasn't even that long ago that most MAPI clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, and others supported the "Body" parameter. This also means that a client must have a MAPI client registered. Rather than relying on what's installed - which gives you little to no control as you've found - send the mail yourself using SMTP. There are many articles here on Code Project as well as on this forum. You can also get third-party libraries like IP!Works[^]. Using the System.Web.Mail namespace is also a bad idea because it requires a CDO library for the system. Only Win2K and above have this client library. NT4 uses something else, IIRC, and Windows 98/Me have nothing. True SMTP support is being added to the .NET Framework for "Whidbey" (.NET 2.0) to replace this hazardous namespace. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

Thanks. I changed the code a bit since it did not work properly. My code is: public static Bitmap GetImageFromResources(string name) { // get a reference to the current assembly System.Reflection.Assembly a = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); string my_namespace = a.GetName().Name.ToString();//not needed since return assembly name string[] ResourceNames = a.GetManifestResourceNames(); string ImageFullName=""; for(int i=0 ; i < ResourceNames.Length ; i++) if(ResourceNames[i].ToUpper().IndexOf(name.ToUpper()) != -1) { ImageFullName = ResourceNames[i]; break; } Bitmap image = new Bitmap(a.GetManifestResourceStream(/*my_namespace + "." +*/ ImageFullName)); return image; } Problem was that a.GetName().Name.ToString(); does not return the name space in which the code is running but rather the assembly name. Thanks again. avivhal

Did you call CoInitializeEx(NULL,COINIT_MULTITHREADED) in that thread ?

You can do this using named pipes. Here is a codeproject article on the subject http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DotNetNamedPipesPart1.asp[^] Torin Blair 'In the immortal words of Socrates - "I drank what?".'

On what class they're defined shouldn't matter, but perhaps some of your overloads were conflicting. With value types - like int - you do not need to pin them (see the GCHandle class, BTW). Reference types may be moved by the GC on the heap, but it depends how the message handler uses the data; you may not need to pin the memory. Strings are reference types but this data is typically used synchronously with SendMessage (PostMessage, on the other hand, is a different story). When passing addresses of reference objects (as IntPtr, or just a GCHandle which works, too, as well as a HandleRef) you should pin them. For robust code, never use fixed-size integers for the WPARAM and LPARAM. Always use IntPtr. For 0, just use IntPtr.Zero and to wrap an int or long use new IntPtr(int) or new IntPtr(long), respectively. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

The fact that you're targeting the .NET CF is something you should've mentioned up-front. We can't help you if you don't give us all the necessary details. The other poster could've avoiding posting about the Append method if he/she knew that you were targeting .NET CF (and either knew off-hand that it wasn't available or bothered to check the documentation before giving faulty information). Look for my answer on the other responses. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

Answers to some of the questions that are yet unanswered: 3. Because the .NET moniker has become a bit of an embarasment for Microsoft (101 different unrelated things got labeled as such-and-such.NET meaning nobody was really sure what ".NET" actually meant anymore)( 5. One big improvement is the introduction of version 2.0 of the .NET framework, which adds lots of extra stuff - have a look here[^] for lots of info 6. There's a download link for the beta in the link above -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!

As MSDN states: "This Windows timer is designed for a single-threaded environment where UI threads are used to perform processing. It requires that the user code have a UI message pump available and always operate from the same thread, or marshal the call onto another thread." Use one of the other two Timer types. Here you find a short overview on timers. www.troschuetz.de

If it does not work staticaly it will not work dinamicaly linked either. All I know is that all the windows(/classes) derived from CWnd receive messages via PreTranslateMessage (this is a given). I do not know about this manualy stuff, I've never had to do that for PreTranslateMessage. I go to the ClasssWizard and select PreTranslateMessage and it generates the code, that works. INTP

Yes, EnableToolTips() has been called and both entries are in the dialog's message map. I tried putting a break point in the message handler in debug mode and never got to the break point. Then I tried with the spy++ to find out if any notify message is sent and non are sent. I have complex structure here that might be the reason: I have a dialog box with a tab control. The tab control has a few pages which are all implemented as child dialogs of the tab control. I'm trying to add tool tips to some of the controls of the tab pages dialogs. Thanks. avivhal

Thanks now its working fine, I dont know how I missed this example in the MSDN (should have thought of it myself anyway), I only found a very general one with no reference as to the caller. Is it possible maybe to call SetTextColor from outside OnCtlColor? I tried it in various places and handlers but it did not seem to work(including in the OnPaint handler). Maybe the attributes set for the DC fonts color are blocked when called from outside this segment of code... Thanks again. avivhal

You probably forgot to put AfxEnableControlContainer into your DLLs InitInstance... "...Ability to type is not enough to become a Programmer. Unless you type in VB. But then again you have to type really fast..." Me

In your first example, OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=SQLOLEDB;User ID=sa;Initial Catalog=master;Data Source=(local);");, you didn't provide a password for the 'sa' account. But in your statement about how you installed MSDE, you said that you set the password to 'sa'. So, for this connection string, you should add Password=sa;. However, it is recommended that you not use a system administrator account to connect to the database from an application. In your second example, you are using integrated security, which means that the connection is made to the database using the currently active Windows login. I assume from the username in the error message, and your statement that it's the machine name, that you're writing a service, and it's set up to run using the system account. This would work, but you'll have to use a tool (or write an app) to configure the database server to allow this account to login, and give it access to the specific database that it needs to access. Note that since you set Integrated Security=SSPI;, the User Id=sa; part of the connection string is ignored. Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB Need a Second Life?[^]