Hi We have a number of webservice methods that are currently running on the same server. Due to increased load, we would like to implement some kind of routing in order to spread the work on several servers. Our idea is to put in sort of a middle layer, i.e. we want to let all the client programs call the same webmethods and then, inside the methods, do some routing. The routing must transfer the calls to other webmethods, which are running on several servers. Our problem is how to implement the router. One idea could be to simply create more webmethods, but we want to go more lowlevel in order to gain some performance. We have therefore been trying to create an asp.net webpage, which the clients will call while thinking it's webmethods. In the asp.net codebehind, we want to read the httprequest and then use it to create calls to webmethods on the servers. After the webmethods return, we want to write a httpresponse and then throw it to the client. Is our idea possible? And does any of you have an idea about how to implement it? We are especially interested in a way to let the client think our asp.net page is a webmethod. Thanks, Mads

I'm using IE 6.0, but adding CodeProjec to trusted sites didn't work. I'm still anonymous... Thanks for your reply.

Since .NET print any stuff as graphics, the standard .NET printing mechanism doesn't work with a "generic / text only" printer. Having tried it anyway, we found out that it didn't raise the event (and the code was ok - the event was raised if we choose any other printer). Personally, I think we have to use some escape sequences - but I haven't been able to find out how to write them. Thanks for your reply. Mads

But if we use a browser to display the reports etc., we need to test our app. we a zillion browsers. And since we hate testing as much as anyone else, we really want to avoid it. Instead, we have made the selection to use the Crystal Report for .NET that is included with Visual Studio .NET. Performance might not be extraordinary but we save a lot of money. Ian, thanks for your help. Mads

Why does my postings keep being logged as "Unconfirmed/Anonymous"? I'm logged in using cookies, and I have access to change my settings etc., so I don't see why there should be anything unconfirmed/anonymous stuff?? Mads

Hi We would like to be able to use the different hardware fonts that exists on most printers, when we use the windows driver "Generic / Text Only" *. We have written some code that enables us to write text to a "Generic / Text Only" (GTO) printer, but despite many attempts we haven't been able to change the font. For writing text we use the importer legacy function WritePrinter(). Any ideas? *) We have to use this driver since we also want to use our code for POS printers etc. Mads

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, ASP.NET is not usable for the project. The clients are "smart clients" that connect to the servers through web services. We want to implement report printing this way: The user press a button on a windows form in the smart client, and a print dialog is shown. On the dialog it shall be possible to select: print preview and print. Mads

Hi Does any of you have experience with selecting a tool for generating reports? We have a large server farm with approx. 250 connecting locations, and each of the locations have approx. 4 computers. The locations needs to able to print data from a number of SQL Servers on the server farm. The data just need to be printed as text in columns, and with group boxes around some of the text. We have looked at Crystal Reports 9, but it offers a lot more than we need and it is very expensive. Thanks for your help, Mads

We are having the same problem and have talked with MS. It seems like MSCOMM32.OCX requires some kind of certificate before it can be used, and that certificate is installed when you install VB6. Our way around it is this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETSerialComm/ Hope this helps, Mads

Hi You should be able to use where with datareader, e.g.: SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); // conn is a SqlConnection cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text; cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE Id = 2134"; conn.Open(); // with datareader you have to open/close connections manually SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while(dr.Read()) { // do something... } conn.Close(); conn.Close(); Hope this can be of use, Mads :-D

Hi We are doing a client-server project for a chain of shops. The individual shops connect to the server using a 128 Kbit connection so we are very concerned with the amount of data being transfered. We want to implement the client applications as smart client and deploy them using "Code Download". Can anyone answer the following questions concerning Code Download?: 1) The client app. consists of a single .exe file and a number of .dll files. What will happen if we update one of the .dll files? Will the client need to download all of the files again, need to download the .exe file and the changed .dll file or only the changed .dll file? 2) How is the above implemented if we want to download as little as possible? Is it all done automatically, do we need to a Assembly.LoadFrom() for each of the files, do we need to update the client manually if a need .dll is downloaded etc. 3) The client app. consists of only a single .exe file. If the .exe file is changed, will it be necessary for the client to download all of it or is it possible to download only "the changes" in the file? Thanks for your help, Mads :~

Hi We would like to know how many CPU resources a running process is using. The problem is that we would like to know the resource use without the CPU resources used on associated I/O operations. Does any of you know of a performance counter that will allow us to gather data about CPU resource use excluding associated I/O operations? Thanks for your help, Mads Jensen Mads Jensen