If there's VS.NET support then I haven't managed to find it yet. Rational seem to be ignoring VS nowadays in Rose in favour of using XDE, but that doesn't do C++. You best bet is to use a VC6 just to give Rose a project to understand, or use the ANSI C++ reverse engineering, which is much better anyway.

I was one of the many to get kicked onto the "Please go away, we don't want you using this service" number back in the summer when watchdog briefly got onto the case (Come back Anne Robinson, all is forgiven). This, of course, meant never being able to connect at peak time and being disconnected at random even in the early hours of the morning. From a business point of view I really understand why they don't want people clogging up their modems all the time. On the other hand I really need to be connected using terminal services to my office some days for my usual working hours and their adverts promised unlimited connection at any time (Didn't BT once promote telecommuting?) and for other times I really need to download more than 2 hours worth of data over my slow 56k modem because nobody wants to give me broadband access out here in the wilds of Hampshire (Nice place called Odiham. About a mile away a big shiney NTL office who aren't giving me broadband either). They say that everybody has resuming ftp downloads nowadays, but ever tried using an automatic upgrade option in an application? Windowsupdate.com is a great example. I could be reallly cynical and mention how I've managed to connect every time at any time of day over Christmas which is just when they've had loads of new users, or how their excuse of "not having enough modems" does't really hold up when your connection is made and then dropped before authentication is completed when it's clear that you're so far into the connection sequence that a modem has to be involved. The bigest joke is caused by Microsoft. MSN messenger will stop my PC disconnecting through inactivity and is a standard part of XP. And as far as I can see XP will automatically reconnect if I get kicked anyway. Unfortunatly Microsoft seem to have coded it the way that I want and BT really hate, which is a shame because I'd say Microsoft are far more of a moral company than BT any day. Who would you back, Microsoft's view of the future of the net or BTs? Oh yes, BT spend how much for a 3rd generation mobile phone license? Sorry, rant over. I'll go back to lurking now. :-D

There was an idea posted in, I think, DDJ a few years about which suggested creating a DirectPlay session and having each client join it. You can very easily restrict the number of allowed connections (players). It should be a lot harder to crack than something like a network share reference count.