My personal objection to C# (for the development that I do professionally) is the lack of source code protection. Obfuscation does not work and I am unsure if the protectors I have found will work in future versions of the .NET Framework. Source code protection possibilities should be a built-in feature. Johannes

Happy birthday Nish! Johannes

Automation is just a limited part of COM so any programming language will suffice. It all depends on the rest of the application. Johannes

Hi, Because of dependencies to external software (and their SDKs) that uses MFC4.2 in old versions of their software and MFC7.0 in newer version I have to compile two versions of my software, one under MFC4.2 and one version under MFC7.0. Is there any way that I can accomplish this without maintaining separate dsw and sln files? Is there any way of setting up my project to use another compiler/linker? Thankful for any help, Johannes

Hi, Does anyone know of any free and easy to install bugtrackers? /Johannes

Hi, I actually think MS is stronger in Europe than in the US. The problem with most software is that it is made for the US market (f.e. seldom in other languages than english, inches instead of mm etc.) whereas MS (who still makes software mostly with US in mind) has a lot of adaptions for different markets. In other regions (like China for instance) they don't have the money to buy MS products (and don't have a lot of previous investments in them) so they opt for other systems. Johannes

Hi, When trying to write my xml data to a string using StringWriter and XmlTextWriter it writes to the string and sets the encoding to UTF-16. How do I control the encoding when writing to a string (when writing to a file with Filestream I can control the encoding through the XmlTextWriter constructor)? Here is a codesnippet of my code: System.IO.StringWriter sw = new System.IO.StringWriter(); XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(sw); writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; writer.WriteStartDocument(); .... writer.WriteEndDocument(); MessageBox.Show(sw.ToString()); Johannes

Thank you all. It seems there shouldn't be any problems.:) Johannes

Anyone had any trouble using VC6 and VS.NET on the same machine? I won't install VS.NET till at least 5 people say it works without a hitch. Johannes

Is there any system for loose coupling of the GUI parts like Doc/View or MVC in .NET? Johannes

Hi, I have an MFC application (exe) containing an ATL COM object (ATL support added to the project). that I want to be able to use from another application. I have created a proxy/stub dll and registered both in the registry but when I try to create an instance of the object it returns E_FAIL. What could I be doing wrong? Johannes

Hi, In one of my apps I have a class requiering an HBITMAP as input but my images are all stored as icons. Does anyone know of a nice way of converting between an icon and a bitmap? I know the CImageList does this somehow but it is not a very neat solution. Johannes

The MVC. For larger projects (> 50000 lines) there is also the StateMaster pattern. Too much overhead on smaller projects though. Johannes