I've never seen such behaviour, and I have 4 systems, nor any of my coworkers, relatives or friends have ever complained about it. Not all of us use the same Windows editions (although same language), but world is bigger than just the people I know, and we all here know how some bugs may appear unexpectedly heh. Maybe a bug with that particular Flash version? Latest version is 10.3, and dunno about others, but I often skip some Flash updates.

Yeah, although the installers can be accessed from that same page. Most people, if not all, will agree that the links are a bit hidden tho. They can also be downloaded from the Archived Versions page, although the archives contain all the different player versions: debug, release, Mac, Windows... so they are a bit of a hassle.

Uhm... installer for Flash... like these ones? http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe[^] http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe[^] :P. I've never seen (or at least I don't recall seeing) that Adobe Reader Speed Launcher, maybe it is optional? Or maybe it comes with just some specific versions of the application.

Same here, always deleting that damn Acrobat Reader icon from my desktop.

Are you agreeing to update? There have been 5 Flash Player updates in 4 months, and 3 updates for Adobe Reader, so unless you are not updating, "forcing" the update announce to re-appear, the maths are failing for me and am not able to see how you are seeing updates "on nearly a daily basis" :P. If you are not updating, when the announce appears and do not want to be notified of that update, there is a check to disable notificaciones for that particular update. Also, the update check interval can be configured or disabled at all if it bothers you. Anyway, yeah, the update process should be improved (luckily it's not like the Java update checker), although I think MS should somehow let other vendors distribute patches through Windows Update too.

I'm mostly with you, and I think that's, along with other commercial reason, the main cause of this battle. I think Steve Jobs just wants to get his piece of cake with HTML 5, or try to get more money or something from Adobe. It seems Windows Phone 7 will be getting Flash support.

Accurate my ass. First, there is "Open": Well... the Flash Player or Flash IDE may not be open source (is it iPhone OS or all their tools?), but the SWF specs are available from Adobe's site, anyone can make their own compilers and players, and indeed, people have done in the past. Plus the Flex SDK is open source. Also, Adobe has also participated on WebKit development and some open standards. Lastly, is H264 open? because I've heard the opposite (I'm not being sarcastic, but truly asking). MODIFIED: It seems that, although others have done it (and are still doing it), it's against Adobe's licenses to make your own Flash Player. Too bad for this one, even if I can clearly see the reasons behind this. Second, there’s the “full web”: Most sites use Flash, one way or the other, a lot of them make bad use of it, but that doesn't change the situation. HTML 5 is not cross compatible yet, and just a few sites have adopted it, or will do so. There are way more Flash games that iPhone ones (a lot of them shitty, but a lot of children or casual gamers don't care either). Third, there’s reliability, security and performance. - Reliability: I cannot talk about Macs here, since I don't know of any potential user of them. Never saw any crash on a Windows or Linux OS, I've heard some people complaining to have had crashes with it, but not a lot, and I know at least one of them had registry issues that were the culprit of Flash crashes. Also, I've seen several iPhones frozen more than once, just yesterday saw one to freeze a couple of times, but sincerely, I see nothing "wrong" with it (I mean, it's something that happens with hardware and software). - Security: Flash have several security flaws, but they work on improving them, for example, they are working with Google to bring a better plugin model in order to fix a lot of these faults. - Performance: Adobe could do better, yes. Although a lot of times is the developer the one to blame, a lot of those "developers" are just kiddies, or designers that believe to have understood what a GC is (if they even know there is one) and use rather bad techniques. Also, the compiler has part of the fault as well, it's been demonstrated that some SWF files can be up to 8-10 times faster when compiled or recompiled through other tools, of course, Adobe's fault in this one. Adobe is already showing a lot of performance improvements for Flash 10.1, but they still can do better. Even so, HTML 5 isn't better in this area... th

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How do I enable internal controls in an external library to show inside the toolbox? Must I add some specific assembly to the InternalsVisibleTo list, define some IDesignerHost property, or isn't it just possible? Thanks!

Well, that's what I'm already doing. I'd like to know if there is some function (I don't care if it isn't a managed one) that directly tells if a file is locked by another application, that way I wouldn't need to use nested try...catch blocks.

I guess you are telling me to plain use a FileSystemWatcher, because using it together with a service is something just not feasible when any file on the computer may be open. Will this work? Always used FileSystemWatcher for being aware about changes in a file or folder since it starts working, I didn't know it could give information of the current status of a file. Anyway, wouldn't this need a lot of resources for just trying to open a file? Well, I'll give it a look when I return at home.

Just as the subject says... which is the best way of knowing when a file is locked by another application? the only way I know to do this is trying to open and work with the file and catching the exception, and wonder if there is any other faster method. Plus if I'd wish to work with several files at once where each one depends on the previous one I'd have to use nested try...catch blocks, and you know, I appreciate my eyes.

I'm trying to add some generic analog and digital TV capabilities to a program, and I'm having some difficulties with DVB-T. I'm using the MS Tuner Library, and the MS Video Control ActiveX, and am able to get correct image and audio for most cases... but I'm not able to find how to make an automatic scan function (already done this with the Analog TV but this one seems to be different), don't know how to get the provider and service name, and when I try to view one of the channels the msvidctl control doesn't show the image and crash, but the frequency, transport stream ID and service ID is correct. Also, couldn't check how to select multiple languages so far (no programs with it right now), nor found anything regarding the Teletext display. Any help?