I've had a similar problem. My solution was to catch the FormClosing event, and when e.CloseReason == CloseReason.UserClosing, set e.Cancel to true and Hide the form. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian Spring. —Alexander Pope

Hi there, Could not see anything, next time you should remember to tick the checkbox "Do not ..." below the text editor. Are you sure that the unauthenticated users can access the web page .aspx in the folder specified in the path attribute of the location entry in the web config file? If you only specify the folder name in the path attribute, then you need to make sure the folder is placed at the root of the web application. You can also try with another work-around solution is to place another web.config file in the folder which you want to protect.

godzooky, the problem is a bit complicated. It is one of those problems that are studied in game theory and linear programming. I tried to solve it but my current mathematical skills leave much to be desired for. I have a minor in it but I can barely remember to solve a second degree equation and let alone a system of equations with a lot of restrictions. By increasing and decreasing the costs you decrease and increase the rate of the function Cost*Age. You have to find a point in where the rate you increase X and the rate where you decrease the other costs have to satisfy the condition that SUM OF ALL (Cost*Age) ~ 44,000,000. Let me give you something to start with and you might try to get a feasible solution from there. Lets call Cost Ci where i = 0 to 5 and where Ci = x, C2 = 8,025 and so on. Ai is the Age and Ci*Ai = Cost*Age. The initial equation is: C0*A0 + C1*A1 + …+C5*A5 = 66,248,454. C0 is X and it’s initially 0 so this becomes: A0 + C1*A1 + …+C5*A5 = 66,248,454 Ai doesn’t change, only Ci does and lets call Di the amount that we will increment and decrement Ci. (C0+D1+D2+..D5)*A0 + (C1-D1)*A1+…+(C5-D5)*A5= 44,254,680. Don’t forget that since C0 = X which is 0 initially then D1+D2+…+D5 becomes your answer. Now you have to write some code which will assign values to Di until the equation is satisfied. At first I would recommend that you decrease those costs where the age is the highest because there the rate of the increase is higher and then slowly proceed with the other costs where the age is lower. Sorry, but this is the only help that I can provide at the moment. // Afterall, I realized that even my comment lines have bugs If the sun were to blow up, it would take us 7-8 minutes to realize it.

Even when you tell IIS that .html files should be handled by ASP.NET? David Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.) David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy

No source code? Unless your using a CodeDomProvider to compile source at run-time, this is not an error you should see. What exactly are you trying to do? Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

I don't think you really need that friend directive. Most probably, you could simply make your classes public and avoid inline methods. It seems that you want to call a managed method from an unmanaged class. However, this can't be done by a direct call, because managed objects are subject to garbage collection. To get a safe entry point into the managed heap, you have to use a GCHandle, which in turn is wrapped by the gcroot template. Try this: #include <vcclr.h> class ManagedClass; class UnmanagedClass { public: UnmanagedClass( ManagedClass* p ); private: gcroot< ManagedClass* > m_pManaged; } You can then make your calls into the managed class with the m_pManaged pointer. There might be another problem: Since you have both managed and unmanaged code in one project, this project needs to be linked in mixed mode. This is because for the unmanaged code, you need the C runtime, which requires an entry point as well as statics. For an instruction of how to convert your project to mixed mode, see the article: "Converting Managed Extensions for C++ Projects from Pure Intermediate Language to Mixed Mode" in the MSDN.

See the documentation for the Credentials Property[^] in the .NET Framework SDK for more information and an example. You don't need to handle the authentication headers yourself, merely pass an ICredentials implementation like the NetworkCredential class. This can already handle basic, digest, HTLM, and kerberos authentication. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

The HTTP response will tell you what authentication is supported. That's the HTTP standard (most likely a different RFC - it's been a long time since I studied them). For example, Digest will also pass you a hashcode that you use with yours - can't remember off the top of my head how - and that you pass back to the server for verification and that it uses to verify the password (by performing the same hash and comparing). You can use some of the other classes in the System.Net namespace, such as the AuthenticationManager, which automatically registers handlers for basic, digest, negotiate, NTLM, and kerberos. Look at the docs for the AuthenticationManager (the actual class documentation, or overview) for an example. Some of these things are handled for you but you still have to tell the HttpWebRequest what the credentials are, which requires that you prompt. Based on the HttpWebResponse.StatusDescription, you could customize your dialog accordingly (providing the basic REALM or something like that). Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Um, try the .NET Framework SDK. You did install that with Visual Studio .NET or with the .NET Framework SDK download, did you not? Specifically, see Managed Extensions for C++ Programming[^] in the VS.NET product documentation. Most importantly, remember that the managed code has the same access to .NET assemblies (including the base class library) that every other .NET language. That's the whole point of language interoperability. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

godzooky wrote: for example, if i have a deployment project in a solution, how do i make that build last, so the deployment project will include the latest versions of the assemblies? The projects are built based on reference dependency. This is why you can't have circular references in your projects. You're deployment project should reference the projects on which it depends, and therefore will be built last. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!

No, since we cannot 'see' how the merge module is/was built. I suggest you just add the DLL to your installer and put it where you need/want it. D.

I appreciate all this info. However, I still can't get it to work. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be set to a non-default value? I have test projects that do just the above and do not work. The app and the dll are in the same directory. I can't get Type.GetType() to work correctly, but I can get Assembly.GetType() to work. And, CreateInstance() always throws an invalid cast exception. I must be missing something obvious.

Can you make it read-only or disabled?

.NET Game Programming with DirectX 9, Alexandre Lobao. APress. Managed DirectX 9 Graphics and Game Programming, SAMS. Lobao's book was "panned" by lots of reviewers, and i have to admit i didn't build the projects (actually i hardly parse vb) but to me it seems like a great overview of how stuff is actually written (there are lots of technical books on 3d, kinematics etc for further reading if you get interested).

Have you looked into using the DirectX Managed SDK?

i figured out my problem. i accidently installed VS .NET 2002. i upgraded to 2003 and it works fine.

In the "Add Reference" dialog (_not_ "Add Web Reference"), on the ".NET" tab, scroll down and select "System.Web.DLL". Add it to the project references by clicking the Select button, then OK. Alternatively, you can manually identify references to the compiler in code with #using, or on the command line with the "/FU" flag. Nick Hodapp This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.