Seems these days if you want your software to talk to the outside world, all you have to work with is the virual USB<->Serial and USB<->Parallel devices. Especially in laptops. Someone in their wisdom thought that these devices are a suitable replacement for "real" ports. (ie UARTS and parallel i/o chips). You have to rely on the bulky overhead and often buggy device divers. In reality they lack performace and versatility. Bring back the serial port. Anyone with me! :)

A string of pearls A string of beads A string of characters ... why not!

Seems we have been Strung along for too long...... :zzz:

To me A$ was always spoken as "A dollar" but it was always understood it as, this is a string variable. Maybe an AU thing :)

Hi all, I'm building a "usercontrol" that has a contextmenustrip on it. All is fine until I try to add an image to an item, it compliles ok but get a runtime error! An unhandled exception of type 'System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "HexBox.HexEditBox.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "HexEditBox" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed. I can only assume that it can not find the resource! I checked the .resx file and the resource (image) is there. Maybe it needs the be somewhere else, or a different process is require to use the contextmenustrip on a user control. I tried the same process on a "form" and as expected all compiles and run as it should. Using VS2008 Framework 3.5 Any help is appreciated. Milton.

Hi all, I'm working on a user control which is basicly a customized edit control (HexEditBox). It has a context menu which is activated by the right mouse click, as per normal. All is working fine with the control, but has a visual aspect that I'm not happy with. When the context menu is activated the caret is hidden from the control. For most of the menu items this is irrelevant, but for the paste option the user looses visual indication where the paste will occur. It is anyway possible the prevent the context menu from hiding the controls caret? Thanks in advance .. Milton