Look into RegexOptions.MultiLine to change whether "." matches newlines as well... myRegex = new Regex("^.*?(?=myStringThatDelimitsTheEndOfTheMatch)"); Match m = myRegex.Match(sampleString); if (m.Success) { m.Value; // this returns only the part of the match // that occured prior to your delimiting string }

As has already been said, using FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo() is the right way to go. If you are only looking for the version number data, there aren't any problems. However, if you want to start looking at any of the other properties, a lot of the .NET assemblies will report incorrect data, particularly the IsDebug property. ----------------------------- In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman

I am not sure it is a great idea, but you can do keystrokes with the SendKeys. I think a better solution would be when you want to call the same method if you can see the event that is getting called I would try to call it. Or if there is a button that can be clicked you can always do button.PerformClick() Hope that helps. Ben

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SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout are really only useful when initializing controls. Once they're initialized, it's pointless to use them. As for the problem, do you notice the flickering when passing another window over your application (a window from another application)? If so, painting isn't the error exactly. Whatever occurs in your app in this case when you close the form is eating up enough CPU cycles - or blocking the main UI thread completely - to cause slow repainting of invalidated regions. If the behavior is the same whether you pass one of your windows, or a window from another application over yours (or minimize -> restore, whatever to invalidate your form), then you might have to consider overriding several of the more offensive controls and enable double-buffered painting. See the Control.SetStyle method and ControlStyles enumeration documentation for details. If many of these controls are already custom controls that you've written, using a double-buffered approach to painting (if you haven't already) will help, but you should also be mindful of the invalidated region when handling OnPaint (its better to override On_EventName_ methods when possible, as opposed to handling the events in a child class) and only repaint the invalidated regions (again, if you haven't already). -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

GetSystemDirectory API to get system directory GetWindowsDirectoryAPI to get windows directory GetTempPath API to get temp directory SHGetSpecialFolderLocation,SHGetFolderLocation are also useful look msdn for details

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Not that I know of, however you can look at the various NameSpace keys to find the extensions that are installed, such as: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NetworkNeighborhood\NameSpace --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer.   -- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge

By digging deeper into the sample code at ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/dncscol/html/csharp05162002.htm, I found that the type they load dynamically descends from System.MarshalByRefObject. This makes sense to me, so I just made a loader that is a MarshalByRefObject which encapsulates all the dynamic loading of Tasks within itself. Now, I instantiate the Loader in the other AppDomain and have it do its diagnostics and return a list of assembly names that contain tasks to instantiate from the current domain.

The following seems to work: myClass.MyEvent = null; Don't you love it when you answer your own questions? ;)

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