You might also try http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/[^]

I don't really know how I ended up here. I was following a couple of links, and all of a sudden I was on this page. The web is linked in mysterious ways. ;) -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?

As a developer/publisher I found ComponentSource too expensive for my liking. The entry fee is too high and so is there take of each sale. I certainly think your idea has merit but I wonder how viable it is. There is no question that there is a huge wealth of untapped progamming tallent out there who have the potential to produce usefull quality components, if they can be motivated and their tallents harnessed. Unfortunately some programmers can be very difficult to work with re. business relationships. They have no idea what is involved in marketing and selling a product. Asynchrony.com http://www.asynchrony.com/welcome.jsp[^]have been doing something along these lines but I have no idea how successful they are. I think I'm right in saying that the XTreme Toolkit http://www.codejock.com[^]started life as a collection of code from CodeGuru.com Last time I looked at this it was a hodge podge of badly documented code. Posts here at CP appear to indicate nothing much has changed. I think there are good opportunities for people to provide marketing and sales expertise to software developers. I'm not aware of people doing this. I'm certainly interested to see where you go with this. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com

I wonder if Symantec and McAfee are in the process of providing a web service for this purpose. I'd certainly drop them an email to see if they provide this, or some similar, service. By the way, is this the same Sax that's been around for years? I used a Sax serial communications C++ library in the mid 90s that saved me a ton of time, so if that was you, nice work, man! Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

Ray Croc's (I think I have the corect name) favourate question was "What sort of business am I in?" Most, me included, would reply "Hamburgers" (if you haven't guessed by now he's Mr McDonalds) He'd always reply "wrong, I'm in the property business. McD's owns probably the most expansive property portfolio around." (paraphrased). I can't stand McDonalds, Burgerking for me, but I keep signing up for that MSDN subs.

VCDJ had a few articles, of course they are now defunct, because we all now *real* developers are VB to the core and need only a monthly C# article and a C++ article annually.. X| Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001 Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOz I live in Bob's HungOut now

I agree with the points that Mike makes. And it is also true that Dundas has gone through using different policies, many of which did not work. Some of them were setup by the product managers, so each product had a slightly different policy, which of course caused much grief for technical support and our clients. We now have one simplified policy. This helps new clients greatly, but legacy clients still feel some of the pains of the old policies. To help any clients over this hurtle, I am more than glad to personally help out each client in need. As for support, we have a database driven support site that is continuously being updated with tutorials, add-ons, hints and tips etc. This has helped our clients greatly, and has allowed Dundas to provide better support; Since all of the simple questions are already answered there is no need for one on one help for these, thus freeing support for more complicated questions. Also, quality of a product is the largest factor. It is much easier to give support on a high quality product than a poor one. Reason... most of the questions about a poor product are to do with bugs, which is usually out the control of the support personnel. Troy Marchand