Mike, I am aware of how the SSL protocal works. What I am looking for is if someone on has implemented just the Handsake or X509 Certificate exhange portion of the SSL protocal. As the title of this topic suggets. ~Nick Forever Developing

led mike, Thank for the information but I am not using sockets or streams. I have a set of files that are digitally signed and I want to make sure their signatures are valid. After getting the files and the digital signatures I need the URL's public key to validate the Signatures. Using Fiddler I noticed the following response on a 443 connect. However, I am not sure how this would translate to x509 certificate in C# code. ~Nick HTTP/1.1 200 Connection Established This is a HTTPS CONNECT Tunnel. Secure traffic flows through this connection. Secure Protocol: Tls Cipher: Rc4 128bits Hash Algorithm: Md5 128bits Key Exchange: RsaSign 1024bits Certificate: [Subject] CN=www.intellicheck.com, OU=Secure Link SSL, OU=Data Systems, O="Intelli-Check, Inc.", STREET=246 Crossways Park West, L=Woodbury, S=NY, PostalCode=11797, C=US [Issuer] CN=Network Solutions Certificate Authority, O=Network Solutions L.L.C., C=US [Serial Number] 00F36126851351E1E58CD16C5DA38A430C [Not Before] 9/5/2005 8:00:00 PM [Not After] 9/5/2008 7:59:59 PM [Thumbprint] BAF241B7E84E5663AE70D7470076EF1D0CAEF222 Forever Developing

Woo hoo! I got it! I got it! I used my laptop to follow the link and I get the security site page instead of paypal - I am finally one of the gang. :-D David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum Everybody is entitled to my opinion

Fixed my own problem need to free the Graphics, Font, Brush object before calling shutdown. Forever Developing

You should consider doing this in the setup of your application or using a separate .ini file for each user. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

I got a great idea. It is a little bit cheesy, but it appears that Microshnizzle does it this way alot, so if they can do it, so can we! Make ONE function for each of the following handlers and subscribe all of your text boxes to it. 1. Mouse UP 2. Key press (interested in the left and right arrows) When either of these events is fired, check the Selection for the Textbox (Textbox.SelectionLength). If the selection Length is NOT zero, then Enable your cut and copy buttons, if the length is 0, nothing to copy, so Disable the cut and copy buttons!

leppie wrote: But this supported by MC++. I have a single dll with exports and a manifest ad can be used by bith managed and unmanaged apps, just as long as you have .NET installed, the process is transparent to unmanaged code. I guess what they mean is that the .NET Framework doesn't natively support this type of functionality (strictly within the Framework itself), I believe what you have is a "work-around". Then again, I could be completely wrong. :-D -Nick Parker

Nicholas Cardi wrote: My problem is I have binary data that I need to convert into a string in order to hand that data to a ActiveX COM control I would directly marshall the byte array to a BSTR. (MarshalAs attribute).

I should have been more clear. I want to pass the SafeArray pointer out to VB 6 in ATL 3.0. I used to be able to do this with the following code. foo(SAFEARRAY(long) *psa); However the same thing in ATL 7.0 won't compile NOTE: I am using an emedded idl VS.NET //Actual code #define _ATL_ATTRIBUTES 1 #include "stdafx.h" #include "resource.h" #include "atlbase.h" #include "atlcom.h" #include "oleauto.h" #include "atlsafe.h" #include "oaidl.h" // The module attribute causes DllMain, DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer to be automatically implemented for you [ module(dll,name="ATL7TEST")]; [object, dual, uuid(4D9BCA91-2F02-4cee-A589-2CC4D9821156)] __interface IATL7TEST { HRESULT TestRaiseEvent(); }; [object,uuid("8D0F6D5E-DDC3-4371-BB08-49864F5DE356")] __interface _IATL7EVENTS { HRESULT MyFirstEvent(SAFEARRAY(long*) *varname ); }; [coclass, uuid(EBAA6CB2-ED31-4e08-8DF8-068B2978C3F7),event_source(com)] class TESTING : public IATL7TEST { public: __event __interface _IATL7EVENTS; HRESULT TestRaiseEvent() { CComSafeArray Test; SAFEARRAY *psa; SAFEARRAYBOUND rgsabound[1]; rgsabound[0].lLbound = 0; rgsabound[0].cElements = 10; psa = SafeArrayCreate(VT_INT, 1, rgsabound); long test; test = 1234; LPSAFEARRAY lpsa; lpsa = psa; __raise MyFirstEvent(psa); return S_OK; } }; //compilation errors //v:\ATL7TEST\ATL7TEST.cpp(33): error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'tagSAFEARRAY' //v:\ATL7TEST\ATL7TEST.cpp(33): error C2059: syntax error : ')' //v:\ATL7TEST\ATL7TEST.cpp(33): error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before ';' Forever Developing

Here hope this helps clarify things a bit more. (Psudo code to follow) Public Class frmMain 'This the standard windows form code Private m_FileMon as clsMyFileMon Private sub_cmdStart_Click m_FileMon = new clsMyFileMon End Sub End Class Public Class clsMyFileMon Imports System.IO Imports System.Timers Imports System.Diagnostics Public Sub New 'Starting new timers and a new instance of 'the filesystem watcher. Using AddHandler 'to add event handlers for the timer_tick event and 'the filesystemwatcher created event. End sub End Class 'I am watching for the creation of files in a specific folder 'then after a given amount of time I delete those files End Class So here is the problem. Every time I click cmdStart it is starting another instance of my class. I know this because for every click of cmdStart I am getting another set of timers. The old instance is not being cleaned up. I have tried to kill the old instance by m_FileMon = Nothing, but the Finalize event does not fire. Is this because the timers and the filesystemwatch are executing on different threads? Do I need to implement IDispose to unhook the timers from my object and force the garbage collector to kill my class? Any help would be greatly appriciated. Forever Developing