We had a BBQ yesterday :) BBQ is supposed to take place on fidays but yesterday was the only *almost* sunny day here...

I din't know "Y" is not a vowel in english... It is in french ;)

Hollow earth is a nice theory too! Hollow earth explained on wikipedia[^]

I currently drive a car I will miss in a few years... A 90' civic hatchback vtec 150hp. A go kart for the road :-D Small, somewhat economic, and most of all reliable. I bought one at 220'000km and now it has 301'000km and it never broke down although each time I drive it I hit the redline at 8'500rmp!!!

That was a good clue! I disabled my network adapter to check if the network could cause the problem and the OpenFileDialog worked fine! As my "My Documents" folder is stored on a remonte server, my computer uses the network connection to get the folder and files informations. Any idea why this could throw the exceptions I have? I'm not sure yet why I have those exceptions, but my code isn't faulty! ;P

That's exactly what I did :(

It worked fine some time ago... You're right the exception could be caused somewhere else. I tested to disable only the ShowDialog() method call and it worked fine. No exceptions. When you ran the code, did you activate the "Unmanaged code debuging"?

No I'm not, I call it from the main thread. The Control.InvokeRequired method returns always false.

Hi All! The standard OpenFileDialog throws exceptions when I call its ShowDialog method. I have all Exceptions activated (Menu Debug->Exceptions) and also the "Enable unmanaged code debuging" in the project properties -> Debug settings. When I turn off this last option the dialog doesn't throw any exception. As my project deals with homemade libraries both mnaged and unmanaged I do have to debug the unamanaged code too. So disabling unmanaged debugging isn't a solution.

public AForm()
{
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
ofd.ShowDialog(); //The exceptions are thrown from here
}

Here is what I have for exceptions: exception: GCError at memory location 0x0019d9d8.. exception: [rethrow] at memory location 0x00000000.. exception: CNLBaseException at memory location 0x065ebcb8.. RPC Server unavailable Does anyone had this problem before or knows how to get red of those exceptions? Thanks in advance!

I would advice to avoid the flash, since the F1 are far away from you, flash is almost useless. With f3.5 you should have enough light to avoid flash. For the shutter speed, well it depends, short (500, 1000) if you want to take fixed cars on a fixed background, longer (60, 125, 250) if you want to take them on a "motion blur" background. (To achive that effect you'll need to follow the car with your camera. Take a few picture to find the right settings.) You can underexpose the picures to -1. That will enforce the "picture taken during the night" effect and allow you to stay at a good ISO level and shutter speed. Keep the ISO as lower as possible to take good quality pictures.

I'm not familiar with the Imperial unit system :laugh: Thumbs up for a really nice post!

I don't know all U2 discography but I think "The Unforgettebale Fire" is one of their best songs.

Yes the neck of the guitar!

When I change strings on my bass guitar I stretch them by pulling them away from the neck. That stabilizes the tuning faster. I suppose you can do that on a classical guitar too but don't pull too much ;)