Why would you buy a computer book from Amazon in the first place? Bookpool has been cheaper than Amazon for every computer book I have ever bought. They have the above book for $33.50(39% Off) and ship to the uk. Also check out www.bestbookbuys.com. David

Yes I do think that they and every other company that requires a key to run and install the software should keep the registration key and have it available for me if there software craps out and needs it again! I would even expect the software to not crap out and not need it again. My key is somewhere in old email, but I would expect them to have a database with that info.

I am just starting to learn .net and ordered c# the the .net platfrom by Andrew Troelsen. This looks like a good book to learn about .net and c# sharp. I have read the 1st chapter which is an intro and part of the 2nd about c#. The book is based on beta 2 and is 970 pages. Check out http://www.apress.com/catalog/toc/1893115593/ for more info. But here is the table of contents: Chapter 1: The Philosophy of .NET Chapter 2: C# language Fundamentals Chapter 3: Object Oriented Programming Chapter 4: Interfaces and Collections Chapter 5: Advanced C# Class Construction Techniques Chapter 6: Assemblies, Threads and AppDomains Chapter 7: Reflection and Attributes Chapter 8: Building a Better Window (intro to Windows Forms) Chapter 9: A Better Painting Framework (GDI+) Chapter 10: Programming with Windows Forms Controls Chapter 11: Input, Output and Object Serialization Chapter 12: Interacting with Existing Systems Chapter 13: Data Access with ADO.NET Chapter 14: Web Development and ASP.NET Chapter 15: Building (and Understanding) Web Services

Well Codeproject has saved me some time, so I was happy to fill out the survey, but I felt the household income and purchasing budget were a little to personal to answer so I left them blank, but I found out you either want everything or nothing:)

Kind of hard to get our thoughts when you only let us answers your questions. What turned me off the most about the tour was it was only 1 day. I didn't feel I could get much from only 1 day to make the travel justified.

There have been lots of 3rd party products I would love to be able to use, but the source code is not available so I have been afraid to use it. I don't want to put my application out and discover a bug in a 3rd party product and not be able to fix it. I have asked several vendors about purchasing the source and they think I am crazy and I am the first person that has asked that.

I haven't spent as much time with .net as I would like. I am thinking of going to a training class after beta 2 ships. Has anyone been to one on .net yet? I am leaning towards Developmentor's gurrilla .net class but am still looking around.

There is an ole db forum at develop mentor (http://discuss.develop.com). I am going to be using ole db soon myself. Developmentor used to offer a course on ole db but I don't see it in listed now.

When I use TransparentBlt , I get a 1st chance exception, althoght the image appears as I had hoped, eventually, the function fails and the image doesn't appear . Any Ideas, I'm pulling my hair out on this one. Does it in Win2000 and 98

Thanks. Later in the day after I posted the message I went poking around in the registry. I found an entry from the MDAC install from Service Pack 4 that was calling RUNONCE. I removed it and that fixed the problem. Thanks again.

After installing Visual C++ 6.0 and Internet Explorer 5.5 update I get a "Windows 95 is setting up the following items" dialog every time I restart windows or reboot my machine. There are no "following items" listed in the dialog. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, just annoying. Any ideas?

I am having trouble killing my timer. It crashs everytime it is killed with an assertion that checks hWnd. The real problem is that the timerID passed to OnTimer is bad. SetTimer returns the correct timerId which I set to 255. OnTimer gets something like 6603033, and the number is always the same. If, inside OnTimer, I use KillTimer(6603033), it works. I suspect this number may change however....and I don't know where this # comes from? I am using CBitmapButtons and I noticed someone else has a similar problem on here. When they added a CBitmapButton, their OnTimer() fails to get called at all. Any suggestions? Thanks

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