Their are a few ways that I have tried to add protection to a program of my own. However how I have done my software protection is not using third-party programs. 1) Use the registry with encryption. Write an encrypted value with the number of days that the program will work and decrement it accordingly. Keep the value encrypted so if it is changed in the registry the program will stop working. 2) Have the program only to run from a CD and write the computer serial number and CD serial number to the disc and if either of the two values are not what their are suppose to be then the program will not run. 3) Disable specific features that will require the full version of the program to use. 4) Set a specific date for the application and when the date is reached all programs that are evaluation versions will stop running. Regards, 1tg46 Check out 3D Game Development with Dark Basic Professional [^]programming.

moredip wrote: Is that correct? Yes, you are quite right. Since it is on the join already, it is redundant in the WHERE clause. My: Blog | Photos | Next SQL Presentation WDevs.com - Open Source Code Hosting, Blogs, FTP, Mail and More

That'd do it! Thanks David :)

Hi Ryan, Unfortunately I don't have GCC - or anything other than VC++ - available for testing. My reading of the page that PJ gave is that the base classes have to be declared as interface or __interface, which is an MS-specific extension. I have a feeling it was introduced to make Managed C++ a little easier - .NET obviously distinguishes between interfaces and abstract base classes. Thanks a lot for the help anyway, Pete

I'm not sure that the Member class should not be able to perform some simple higher-level abstraction utilities. If the actions are solely meaningful to the member class, then there is no problem in implementing them in that class. For example, LastOnline and CheckExpiryDate might be only meaningful to the member class. Thus it would be reasonable to implement it in that class, even if its a higher level abstraction. Particularly, I would implement the CheckExpiryDate() as a boolean property HasExpired (question of tastes here :-D). On the other hand, more general functionality like UpdateWithInputFromWebForm might be a more general utility that might be meaningful to more objects than Member instances and should be implemented in a Utility class. My first design wouldnt be valid anyhow, as the Utility class should not be strongly typed to the Member class, and the update could and should be done in a generalize way (again with Reflection through a Dictionary collection: property name - new value for example u could acheive this) To make it short, what I always try to do is isolate all DB Management from the real objects I'm using in my application. In your original design, your Member class was implementing the DB update logic too, and I think thats where I would change the abstraction of the objects. Implementing the utility class depends again on how complicated your app is really going to be, but I dont think implementing high level abstractions in the Member class is a design fault if those utilities are only applicable to the Member class. I think we need some second view about this, so any more suggestions are welcome :)

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Hi Jack, Pretty much the same story: <---------------------SNIP-----------------------> C2DTrajWindow::UpdateVirt: m_memDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 807 m_decorationsMemDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 807 m_memDC.BitBlt( 0, 0, 1280, 807, &m_decorationsMemDC, 0, 0, SRCAND ) ] took 684.505154 milliseconds C2DTrajWindow::UpdateVirt: m_memDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 809 m_decorationsMemDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 809 m_memDC.BitBlt( 0, 0, 1280, 809, &m_decorationsMemDC, 0, 0, SRCAND ) ] took 2.769346 milliseconds C2DTrajWindow::UpdateVirt: m_memDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 812 m_decorationsMemDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 812 m_memDC.BitBlt( 0, 0, 1280, 812, &m_decorationsMemDC, 0, 0, SRCAND ) ] took 683.831325 milliseconds C2DTrajWindow::UpdateVirt: m_memDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 815 m_decorationsMemDC's ClipBox - l: 0, t: 0, r: 1280, b: 815 m_memDC.BitBlt( 0, 0, 1280, 815, &m_decorationsMemDC, 0, 0, SRCAND ) ] took 2.098870 milliseconds <---------------------SNIP-----------------------> Cheers, Pete

Unless they changed in the latest version here are the Maximums. Rows: 65536 Columns: 256 You can have many sheets, but each sheet cannot contain more than this. This is annoying when one wants to import a 100,000 lines of invoices coming from an external prog for analysis reasons. Unfortunately i dont have an official link for you. Hope this helps.

I think that my solution only work if you are NOT using MFC's Doc/View. If you are then you have to create the child window another way (which I don't recall how at the moment). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned

My suggestions for brewing. 1. Read www.howtobrew.com for some great advice. 2. Make sure you have the right equipment and sanitation at a Home Brew Shop. 3. If you haven't bought a kettle yet, buy one big enough to do a full boil. 4. 3 or 4 days before you brew, make a yeast starter. 5. If you are doing a partial boil (high malt/water ratio) watch the wort very closly as boil overs are dangerous and waste precious fermentables. 6. Don't drink too much while brewing, you'll burn yourself. If I were you I'd look around on the net for recipes of beer styles that I like and take the recipe to a homebrew shop, they will help you get started. There are two message boards with great information at: www.morebeer.com www.northernbrewer.com Have fun.

OK, well I guess I managed to fix the problem by using the following format string: String.Format(" {0,7:G6}", dNumber ); strange that the previous format string performed differently on different machines though.

Hi guys, I ended up re-normalising the database schema, a side-effect of which was that my NULL-checking problem is no longer an issue. Which is nice. I just wanted to say thanks for your help. Cheers, Pete

Well I guess a simplistic replacement strategy would be: using System.Text.RegularExpressions; ... someTextBox.Text = Regex.Replace( myMultiLineString, "\n", "\r\n" ); and vice versa for reading text from a TextBox. Does seem rather ugly to me though.

Funny, that's exactly what I did do :) And I was thinking the same thing: "Hmm, this can't be the right way to do this... Ah well, at least I can keep coding while I wait for some kind of solution.." Thanks Roger, Pete

Do you mean something along the lines of: public property object Data { get { if( !DesignMode ) throw new NotSupportedException(); else return null; } } Is that the only way to solve this problem? I don't really like the idea of having little if( !DesignMode ) lines all over my code :| But thanks for the help :)

Hey, just tell me where to find it ;)