I bought my MSDN Professional subscription straight from MS. The first year cost me $1200, and the renewal was $800 this year. I don't know what translates into Euros, but it was 1/3 less for the renewal. Still a rip-off, but hey, what can ya do? According to MSDN, for the Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with MSDN Professional Subscription (what used to be just the MSDN Professional) is 1.284,00 € for the full, 855,00 € for the renewal.

Supposedly, in Universities, the most common double-major or major-minor situtation is between Computer Science and Music, in one form or another. That being said, I've always loved drumming, but have lately found myself with a strong urge to compose music. Of course, I suck horribly at it....

That when the respective control tower is not active, a Class D surface area does NOT revert to a Class E surface area....... I swore up and down that it did... Oh well

Have you ever seen the movie Shrek? If not, rent it this weekend; very funny movie.

Does anybody else have those days where you lack any and all motivation to do anything productive? Or feel like you don't have any direction in which to work? If so, what helps? No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with the motivation to keep working...

Paul Watson wrote:

over a 1000 US citizens

Don't forget: We're well over 2000 in the death toll....

toxcct wrote:

i hope aviation gps and cars gps are not same !!

It would be funny to see the TCAS just LIGHT UP with all the "pending collisions" :-D NOTE: TCAS = Traffic Collision Avoidance System

Personally, I'd go with Garmin. They're the leader in Aviation GPS', so I imagine they've transfered a great deal of that technology into their consumer GPS models. If I had the choice, I'd only fly with Garmin avionics...

Oh.... to have that problem............ A couple of the guys I work with wanted to have a race... to 190 and back.......... Darn thin people

Christmas Vacation all the way... But there's also Muppet's Christmas Carol.........

I recieved my copy last night and had pretty much the same reaction you did. Being the geek I am, I wanted to hear more about what they we're doing, they're problems, and the like. But I must admit it got me interested in doing the FogCreek intern program.... then I read it is an absolute requirment to be a college student, so I was shot down...... -Chris

UML is worth it. The trick is to document only whats needed, not EVERYTHING. And when you do that, UML gives you a clear and consistant way to documnet those parts that need it. Too many people get UML mixed up with documentation methodologies. I'm not going to get into this religious despute, other than to say that whenever you DO want/need to document something, UML is the way to go: everybody either (a) know's the standard notation, and thus can easily understand the document, or (b) can easily pick up a UML reference and then easily understand the document.

Unfortunately no. The client's product is a Microsoft Flight Simulator add-on, so the client is actually MS Flight Simulator. Can't force it to use a viewer... -Chris

Thanks for the reply. The app I developed is in C++, but the bulk of product is actually images (similar to .bmp's), which is where the real value is. It in no way warrants a dongle, and it's only distributed online. We'll probably use a license key type of thing at installation time, which will be verified by a server. However, the companies worried about users installing the product, and then zipping up the files and distributing it in ZIP form. -Chris

Hello all.. I recently developed some software for a company, who then released it over the internet. Well, about a week later they found their product for free download on a piracy site. That company has now put me in charge of software security. So, being almost completely new to the area of security, can anyone recommend any resource on slowing or making software piracy more difficult? I know that perfect security is not obtainable, but I was hoping to find some mechinisms on how to slow the pirates down, or make the effort not worth the product. Any help? Thanks... -Chris

The VS Debugger must "attach" to a process to debug it (hit breakpoints, etc.). Since Project B is launched via CreateProcess() and NOT from the debugger, so the debugger has no association be Project B and the executeable created with CreateProcess(). What you need to do is set a breakpoint right after CreateProcess(). Then, in another instance of VS, open the solution file, and goto "Debug"->"Processes". Select the recently launched executable and click "Attach".

Sweet Flame wrote: WinExec ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE", SW_SHOWNORMAL); Just a note: You'll need to escape the backslash. The '\' character in a string signifies a special character. You need to use: WinExec("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\WINWORD.EXE", SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Hi, You may want to look into ESRI's MapObjects. It's basically an ActiveX control and supporting library, and it really powerful. You create a window with the Map control, add layers (such as shapefiles, MrSID images, etc), set the extents, and it'll take care of the rendering. You can use the evaluation version (fully functional, 60 days) for now, and then worry about pricing/looking for other options later. As far as getting the ortho photos, check with your local GIS department. County is usually better, but your city's GIS is also an option. www.esri.com/software/mapobjects/index.html If you need more help, or help getting started, let me know! -Chris

Your right, I appologize. I did import the control, the reference was there. I I drug the control onto the form and looked at the Form Designer generated code. There was very little in difference. Then, I executed the app, and I got the same senario ("There is no source code available for the current location") since the generated code added the "[STAThread]" line.

Hello, I am trying to instantiate an ActiveX object. However, I am having some problems with threading. When I try to instantiate it without any threading statements, as follows: public static void Main(String[] args) { Application.Run(new SetupCreator()); } public SetupCreator() { ESRI.MapObjects2.Core.AxMap map1 = new ESRI.MapObjects2.Core.AxMap(); /*....*/ this.Controls.Add(map1); } I get the exception: "Could not instantiate ActiveX control '9bd6a64b-ce75-11d1-af04-204c4f4f5020' because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment." So, I did some research, and added the line [STAThread to just before main. With that there, I get "There is no source code available for the current location". I found another approach, which adds the line: Thread.CurrentThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA); and getting rid of the STAThread line. Now, with this in place, I get "Failed to set the specified COM apartment state." So, I am a little lost as to what to do. Any suggestions?