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That's why we have an OpenSource community, so the average Joe can start a business with free open source software that often exceeds most commercial applications ( Due to a community involvement and general aim to improve software). The chances are there is a Free, enterprise level piece of software out there that can do the job. I am new to Development ( 1 year) and am amazed at how much some software houses charging for average software, the reality I've found is the next killer app is just a few clicks away at sourceforge.net. I think we need to come together as developers and write better applications, by means of Open Source and Code sharing, than go the route of some software company's that charge the world for standard rate code. Remember for every overpriced piece of software there is a free open source equivalent. But thats just my view

Thanks for the reply. I do dispose of the image variable, I just didn't include the code on the post. Although I realize my comment on the GC doesn't make sense. I will have to investigate if any .NET objects are still hanging around, that acompany the Call to GDI) i.e the form. thanks again

I've got a memory issue with an unmanaged call to GDI. I've followed the CreateDC, releaseDC, DeleteDC step outlined in the platform SDK,these methods all return true or 1, indicating that they succeeded. However after each call to the method it consumes 3 mb of RAM and does not release the memory, the issue is that method will be called many times and builds up to about 60mb memory used. I store a bitmap in a member variable, which i dispose of. iWidth = nWidth; iHeight = nHeight; hdcSrc = User32.GetWindowDC(User32.GetDesktopWindow()); hdcDest = GDI32.CreateCompatibleDC(hdcSrc); hBitmap = GDI32.CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcSrc,iWidth,iHeight); image = new Bitmap(iWidth,iHeight); GDI32.SelectObject(hdcDest,hBitmap); GDI32.BitBlt(hdcDest,0,0,iWidth,iHeight,hdcSrc,iStartX,iStartY,SRCCOPY); image = Image.FromHbitmap(new IntPtr(hBitmap)); User32.ReleaseDC(User32.GetDesktopWindow(),hdcSrc); GDI32.DeleteDC(hdcDest); GDI32.DeleteObject(hBitmap); if I call GC.Collect() it clears the memory and brings it back down but this is oviously not a good idea. Any Idea's?

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Hi A very strange thing happened to me last night. Last night I was doing my normal late night coding , I have my HiFi(1200w) connected to my sound card(Old School SB 16bit) so I can blast my MP3's.The Hi-Fi is next to my PC box and the speaker's are onto on the box and next to my monitor For some reason I moved to the left and banged my foot on my desk. Now apart from the unbearable pain in my foot I noticed something different. My HiFI seemed to be playing only 1 Channel, in other word's all I could hear was the Rhythm guitar, I couldn't hear the bass, drums or Vocal's for that matter. It seemed to have perfectly isolated certain sections of the song Quite interested in this, I investigated further and played some different songs. To my amazement they all played in 1 channel. I have also discovered some weird stuff in some songs that I couldn't hear before.I can almost hear what Dave grohl is whispering in "Everlong" by Foo Fighters. I have checked all my physical cable connections and my sound card is working fine if I hook speakers directly to my SC. Something must have gone wrong in the external source of my Hi-Fi. Maybe it's MSVC++ lol :-D Does anyone know what could have caused this ?

A question I have been asking myself lately is "How safe is Automation ?" As one of my new Years resolutions is to automate as many of the tasks I perform without loosing control over them, using VB Script,JScript,VB.NET and C++ Task's vary from running reports on website usage, general networking jobs to creating user accounts to IDE Macro's. Basically to make my life as a Network / Sys Admin easier ! So far things are going well as I have automated a couple of task's. The question still remains is it safe on level of SECURITY/STABILITY to automate processes. I guess I comes down to the way it is coded ! Any thoughts ??

Has the Online community spawned a race of insomniac's . Any thoughts ??

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