uh no.... Regards, Hulicat

There is one in my VS2005 Professional VC++/ATL/ATL Server Project led mike

Hi, I can paint your PNG image on a Panel at different scales and it always looks good. Your JPG captured image has several anomalies: - where is the little close box coming from (top, almost right)? - seems like it was first scaled down a lot, then scaled up again. could it be the image gets loaded while the PictureBox is small, then the PB size gets increased but the image itself is no longer available? or something similar? Anyway I wouldn't trust a PictureBox much, and do my own scaling, hence SizeModes Normal and AutoSize have my preference. Have you been playing around with alpha channel, transparency? Tell us the entire story, and show us some code. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Voting for dummies? No thanks. X|

The first is better. Easier to maintain and look at the reason Colin said for #2 in his reply. "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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Well, he can code in VS2005 and just compile it with Mono - that's what I do. In many respects, Assemblies produced by MS's compiler are compatible with Mono too (you're asking for trouble if you execute them, missing dependencies, etc, etc, but you can probe them easily).

using a char is obviously nasty as hell, but this is the general idea, yes. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

You could, but why reinvent the wheel? The policies are mostly just registry entries and controlling security on those entries. The code to manipulate the registry and security is not that hard. The hard part, and very tedious, is figuring out what registry entries to change and what values to put into them. Again, all documented in the Windows XP Resource Kit. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

I'm already done with most of this project -this part is only a small part of the project- anyway, am doing my best to have answers for my questions

Thank u, ur code exactely satisfy my needs, but i want to do this under .NET not in visual c++

This piece of code helped me alot, hope it'll work for you. /* *************************************** * ModifyRegistry.cs * --------------------------------------- * a very simple class * to read, write, delete and count * registry values with C# * --------------------------------------- * if you improve this code * please email me your improvement! * --------------------------------------- * by Francesco Natali * - fn.varie@libero.it - * ***************************************/ using System; // it's required for reading/writing into the registry: using Microsoft.Win32; // and for the MessageBox function: using System.Windows.Forms; namespace Utility.ModifyRegistry { /// /// An useful class to read/write/delete/count registry keys /// public class ModifyRegistry { private bool showError = false; /// /// A property to show or hide error messages /// (default = false) /// public bool ShowError { get { return showError; } set { showError = value; } } private string subKey = "SOFTWARE\\" + Application.ProductName.ToUpper(); /// /// A property to set the SubKey value /// (default = "SOFTWARE\\" + Application.ProductName.ToUpper()) /// public string SubKey { get { return subKey; } set { subKey = value; } } private RegistryKey baseRegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine; /// /// A property to set the BaseRegistryKey value. /// (default = Registry.LocalMachine) /// public RegistryKey BaseRegistryKey { get { return baseRegistryKey; } set { baseRegistryKey = value; } } /* ************************************************************************** * **************************************************************************/ /// /// To read a registry key. /// input: KeyName (string) /// output: value (string) /// public string Read(string KeyName) { // Opening the registry key RegistryKey rk = baseRegistryKey ; // Open a subKey as read-only RegistryKey sk1 = rk.OpenSubKey(subKey); // If the RegistrySubKey doesn't exist -> (null) if ( sk1 == null ) { return null; } else { try { // If the RegistryKey exists I get its value // or null is returned. return (string)sk1.GetValue(KeyName.ToUpper()); } catch (Exception e)