My last time in traffic court was the opposite. My daughter had received a rather bogus ticket after a small accident (everyone who looked at the car afterword was astonished that she was the one ticketed)--we went to court mainly to get the fine reduced and get the option of traffic school (why they didn't just give that option to begin with annoys me. Most the other cities around where I live do so, but not that one.) At any rate, we were sixth in line and we had a hanging judge. Only one of the first five was clearly guilty (and astonishingly so), the rest were arguably or blatantly innocent, but only one got off. In several cases the witness for the prosecution was obviously lying on the stand (I knew the locations of all the incidents.) In one, the witness contradicted himself three times! What bothered me the most was how the prosecutor strutted around the court room like he was sending murderers to jail. The judge was even worse--he gave no pretense of fairness. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

Obliterator wrote: I would then need to look more closely at the definition/implementation/comments of the Read function to determine more about how it worked. If there were side-effects, this is something i would expect to be indicated, either in code or in comments. Neither block indicated such a thing, the comments in the first merely describing what was implicit in the code. ---- Do you see what i see? Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true... ...That ignorance is bliss?

This gets my 5! Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

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Yup, mine is codeproject@mydomain.com. I'm not really blaming CodeProject; I know the spammer scum are really tenacious. I wish they were smart enough to only send spam to the real suckers though. Anyway, I only noticed one so far and I have SpamBayes, so it isn't a big problem. I've also seen much worse; for example I donated money to the Carter Center and now I get hundreds of spams for my cartercenter address. I think their database got hacked (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn't sell it). How is it that the US gummint spends hundreds of billions of tax dollars on unnecessary wars, but won't submit a single spammer to the torture they deserve? :wtf: Surely they don't fall under any provision of the Geneva Convention. Why doesn't Dick want to dunk those punks? :( Matt Gerrans

Matt Gerrans wrote: Does everyone do that? No, never have and wouldn't even consider it. "One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

Thanks for the help. Turned out after trying a lot of configuration tweaking (system and IIS) to no avail, that uninstalling ISS, removing the whole project, then reinstalling ISS and putting all it back got things working. Apparently there was something strange in the original setup of ISS. Matt Gerrans

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You should use StreamReader reader = _info_.OpenText();. If you look at the IL, the code for opening a StreamReader from a stream vs. a filename is the same. The constructor which takes a string actually does the same thing you are - opens a FileStream and passes it to Init (an internal method which every constructor eventually calls). As for your original question, see the StringInfo class defined in the System.Globalization namespace. This allows you to enumerate characters (derived from however many code points), which you could then determine if a string contains one character or more. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

Usually, other countries will not be helping the small business down the road from you to apply technology to his specific needs. They need people locally for that. Plenty of work there to last another decade or two... Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com - Now with "Recommendation" postings www.JokesTricksAndStuff.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - Now with Recent Poll List www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com - Again :)

I'm afraid that there are no built in options for that. There's probably a tool with intellisense the way you want to have it. But, most of the tools that I've tried are not too professional and make the VS.net more complex and probably more annoying than helpful. Anyone out there actually have a tool with better intellisense than VS.net?

Matt Gerrans wrote: But the link here seems completely irrelevant. I hardly think so. Are you relying on the the logical fallacy known as "Appeal to Fear" here? No, I am simply pointing out that there is a rational basis for the checks that stores use to discourage shoplifting. Where are you getting "Appeal to Fear" from? What's the connection? Because criminals exist in the world, we should all be willing to submit to searches at at any time and by anyone who suspects us? That is quite a leap. I think there is a difference between someone checking your shopping bag to make sure that what is in you bag is on your receipt and being stopped indiscriminately and searched. Furthermore, nobody has said that you must shop at these stores. By the way, I don't have a beef against the poor guards who are "just doing their job" as much as I do against the corporations who decide that customers are criminals, or at least suspect. Corporations haven't "decided" that customers are criminals (or suspects). They are simply protecting their business and most of these businesses treat everyone exactly the same to avoid discrimination lawsuits. Probably one of the most famous of kind of lawsuit is the class action suit against [Denny's](<a)[^] about 12 years ago. What I am trying to say is that those companies who stop everyone are more fair than those companies that engage in "profiling". I never said that I agreed with the practice of stopping and checking bags. I am saying that I understand the reasoning for it (calling customers criminals is not a reason, protecting profits is). I also noted that I tend not to shop at these stores. If you don't like how you are treated at a store, stop going to it. Write the manager a letter explaining your grievance rationally and your intention to stop shopping at his store (most managers laugh at such letters because they are filled with rants, hyperbole and exclamation marks--but they do take seriously letters which are sober and well-reasoned... unless they are jackasses!)

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Do you know the official explanation of why [u] isn't pronounced in words such as desu? Ah, actually I left out something in my earlier post. [i] and [u] also become voiceless after a voiceless sound when they are at the end of a word, such as in "desu" or the verb ending "masu". This is a common phenomenon in languages, unstressed vowels can be "reduced" since they aren't the focal point of the word. For example in English, "several" is usually said as two syllables "sev-ral" with the middle "e" being dropped entirely. A similar thing happens with consonants in many languages, eg German and Russian. In German "tag", the [g] becomes devoiced to [k]. --Mike-- Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ

Yes, that looks like just the thing. Thanks! Matt Gerrans

Thanks, I gave it a whirl. Pretty nifty graphs. Good thing I have a lot of memory! Matt Gerrans

Gerrans wrote: I'm not clear on how you can change the CreateParams of the app's main form, since it is a protected member of the Control class, which is a few bases up the hierarchy from the Form class. By extending the Form class with your own class, then override the CreateParams. If you want to just change a style, you typically get the base.CreateParams, modify, and return it; but in your case you're changing the class name - a pretty big change. Construct your CreateParams, change the styles and class name, etc., then return it. Gerrans wrote: I didn't know (or expect) that it had that MainWindowHandle property You should browse through the Class Library documentation in the .NET Framework SDK. It's not like you have to memorize everything, but you should recognize a naming pattern that Microsoft sticks to about 98% of the time (according to FxCop). That makes it easy to find what you need, especially if you have some idea of what to look for. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles