Pierre Leclercq wrote: To me that looks like yesterday's tools. I'd rather use silverlight... Better hope Microsoft doesn't turn a corner too fast or it will break your nose. :rolleyes: Compassionate Conservatism is an Oxymoron. Bush is just a Moron.

Well, a very large part of the Windows software base does work unchanged on Windows Vista (although custom actions in Windows Installer are problematic due to UAC changes [*], so installing them might be tricky). But that's the point - it's unchanged. You can run it equally well on Windows Vista or on Windows XP. The few cases where they've forced it are some of their own games (um, Halo 2 on Windows? barely uses DX10 from what I've heard). Office 2007 works on both, you get slightly more Glass in the window on Vista, big whoop. No major advantage in getting Vista over XP. It would help if Microsoft would support something other than just their latest developer tools, and that not even very well. :mad: I actually can't use Windows Vista at work because I still need to use eMbedded Visual C++ (3.0 AND 4.0) and they simply crash. No fix planned because, well, they were free, and they're out of date anyway. VS 2005 'replaces' them - if you only want to support CE 5.0 and Pocket PC 2003 and later. Sorry, I still have some customers with PPC 2002 and Windows CE 4.2 out in the field, and MFC/CE 6.0/3.0 (it's a bad hackup of MFC 6.0 for the desktop) to ATLMFC 8.0 is too big a jump anyway. [*] This is because users normally installed as administrator. If your custom action requires administrative privileges you were supposed to say that it shouldn't impersonate the installing user, but few did (and IIRC the 'no impersonate' is not set by Visual Studio for VS-generated packages). Under Windows 2000 and XP, it was possible for an administrator to mark a package for installation by unprivileged users, where you'd get bitten by this, but this feature only makes sense in managed environments and isn't used much. DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991

As a third generation sooner (sadly now living in Indiana) all I can say to that is: BOOMER SOONER! The only conspiracies that concern me are the ones I am completely unaware of. By the time I find out about it, its probably a done deal. Nothing in the entire universe is more useless than morality without authority. A morality free of hyprocrisy is no morality at all.

Marc Clifton wrote: Wierd. I wonder why not! DataBinding relies on a BindingContext. Only container controls like forms or UserControl provide a BindingContext. So if you host a control outside of a UserControl or Form it will not have a BindingContext and so it will not work. Co-Author ASP.NET AJAX in Action

That should drive the price of them up quite nicely.  And, even with an SA law degree, I could quote (il)legally practice as a backstreet lawyer in the US.

My acer cheapo's running fine. Even at full load the CPU (c1d 1.73) never gets more than barely warm to the touch and it's either completely fanless or has a totally silent one. In terms of generalized laptop abuse I haven't really done anything to it, I bought it mainly to have something decent to take on the road with me a halfdozenish times a year, otherwise it just sits on my desk serving as a defacto second monitor and crunching away at einstien @ home. -- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Hi, you could convert to HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) using Color.GetXXX() methods, adjust brightness a bit, (watch out for over/underflow) and convert back. You need to write that part yourself ! This article[^] is my preferred article for june and may help you. BTW in the Java world GetLighter() and GetDarker() (or something of that nature) do exist. :) Luc Pattyn try { [Search CP Articles] [Search CP Forums] [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] } catch { [Google] }

Are you saying your democracy does not work? Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall? Fold with us! ¤ flickr

What's wrong with that? :confused:

well said Roswell :) "Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today." Antonio VillaRaigosa City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA

You program assembly? :wtf:

Odd, most of the stuff I've seen is labelled, though you might have to struggle a bit to read some of them. The device usually has a tag with the FCC/CE info on it, and a symbol that shows a circle with a dot near the voltage rating data. There's usually a +/- symbol somewhere to indicate the polarity. The same info is normally on the molded case of the supply, and it can be a misery to try to read it, especially in the dark. I like the suggestion of putting tags on everything when you first install it; I think I'll start doing that myself! "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

Yeah, this is business and usual for the government. They have the idea that you need something sweet to make the bitter go down better. I personally do not believe that any bill should contain more than one issue. But, even at that it would not matter, so they would just agree behind the closed doors to vote for each others stuff as a compromise. Not much of a way around it. [rant on] As for the wage increase though, here in Oregon minimum wage is currently $7.50 per hour. One of the reason ours is higher than the national is that many years ago we enacted a rule that allows the minimum wage to increase automatically with inflation. So, the $7.50 per hour is the same as it was years ago when you account for inflation. I think that is still way too low in most areas of the USA for those that have no skill and have to live most of their life at that rate. A person should be able to exist (not a great living, but have a roof over their head - without living where you have to fear for your life daily, food and transportation) on just one full time job. Maybe even to support a normal family to that same level. I use to feel that we should let a person work for whatever they want to work for without regulation, but after seeing the business world for a few decades, I know they would always pay the absolute minimum and people would be forced to live at that level. So, I think the national minimum wage should be kicked up to $15 per hour! [rant off] Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: Popfly! Check this out! Latest Tech Blog Post: 15 Free utilites!

ah, a new improvement....custom signals.

I think the hallmark of a good hack job is that on the surface, it doesn't look like a hack. I've whipped up small apps that from the high level view look structual sound, and on the inside have all kinds of nasty and inefficient string splicing because it's the easier thing to do. As for patterns, i like them, they have a purpose. Infact, i used them even before i knew what they were, so i only really trust design patterns i figured out before i got the GOF book. I do have a gripe that writing more code than the bare minimum is "Overengineering", when infact, the bare minimum is gross underengineering. Reminds me of a saying i saw somewhere: "Just good enough is rarely enough, and never good." There IS a happy medium. T ------------------------------- Carrier Bags - 21st Century Tumbleweed.

I remember when I had about 6 feet of Byte magazine on my shelf and couldn't wait for the next issue.

Trollslayer wrote: The Royal Navy. :confused::confused::confused:

Joe Woodbury wrote: (though he is still nowhere near as expensive as his sister was.) With the exception of needing the latest/greatest tennis shoes, boys don't care as much about wearing the latest clothes, and if they are, those clothes should be purchased from Goodwill so they look "used". They also don't need to experiment with makeup, or purchase additional underwear components as they get older. Hygiene is generally a no-brainer for boys as well with no real changes occurring over their life time. All of this means a lower initial outlay of disposable income until they get to driving age (IMHO, "driving age" should be defined as "18 and over", but I'm old and don't generally tolerate childhood absurdity). "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

Searching is not hard, and you don't even need much thought to do it. hmmmm I'm looking for an introduction to c#. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=introduction+to+c%23&meta=[^] oh, whats this exception? http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=c%23+nullreferenceexception&meta=[^] I wonder what I can do with the string class. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=system.string&meta=[^] I've spent a lot of time in the c# irc channel on freenode and it amazes me how stupid people are. It's very simple to pick out the right keywords and even if your not very good at choosing keywords it takes SECONDS to try different combinations of words to find some good results. It's one thing not to be able to find out why your remoting sink isn't decoding correctly as theres very little information on that, it's another matter when the idiots can't be bothered to actually learn rather than expect you to be their personal google monkey.

That has to be the stupidest thing ever! Unless someone is doing well from it... The tigress is here :-D