Hi Mike, Thanks very much for your reply. So the compacting is a default option which already be turned on in MSDE? How about SQL Server, the option is also turned on by default? Is there any way I can configure this option so that it can be performed when there is 10% free space? Many thanks for your help!!

You don't have to simulate it, you can create a real console window using AllocConsole(). You can get a handle to it using GetStdHandle() and then write messages using WriteConsole()

Yes, you can do a static_cast or a simple C style cast, just make sure you have valid string at the address, otherwise the thing will blow up at runtime. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

Thank you very much! It gets work!! Thanks!!

Try to check the information from here[^]. And let me know whether it is match what you need or not. A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step. APO-CEDC Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office

Hi, Anthony, thank you for reply. i m trying to use the one u suggest. but the code is hard to understand. in case, i really dun know how the parameter "myPort" which in etAddressLptPort GetAddressLptPortInTheRegistry GetAddressLptPortInTheMemory hv been used. u have any idear abt it. btw i m trying to get that book to c how. thank u very much!:-D

To do it properally you need something like InstallShield/NSIS/MSI etc etc etc. Personally, Id go for NSIS - free, poweful, and open source. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home/ If its just a simple app you could write one - but why bother when someone has done it for you.

You will need to save the last filename used somewhere, like the registry, in HKCU\Software\jfk_lili\appname\LastFile, for example. Then on startup, you need a mechanism to detect that the program had no arguments, and then force it to load that file. If you were using MFC, for instance, you could override your InitInstance to examine the program's command line, where it uses CCommandLineInfo, and if the verb was FileNew, change it to FileOpen and fill in the m_strFileName member. You then call ProcessShellCommand, and it happens automatically. Steve S Developer for hire

You never defined the types to use for the template, like this for example: typedef CTypedPtrList m_FreqList; Have a look to this article[^] of MSDN for a sample. HTH, K. Mais donnez-moi aussi Le courage et la force et la foi Car vous êtes le seul à donner Ce que l'on ne peut obtenir que de soi.

Did you consider that the loop variable test may be optimised to register variable and your inline code is currupting it. MSN Messenger. prakashnadar@msn.com

Good!!! I learned something new today :-) P.R.A.K.A.S.H

We had some success using winio from http://www.internals.com/[^] last time we were doing this at uni. If you can keep you head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts you aim; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Rudyard Kipling

So what i hv to do is use C or C++, rite? but using C is too troublesome. Can i use a DLL which contain the assemble one, then i call it from VB? I hv read some articles abt MASM. it says that the MASM support a mixed programming language. it means MASM can also be used for Basic or VB? Thank U very much!!! =):-O