Hi all, I've just posted an article on the VC++ blog about this tool. It is still available as a sample in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. See the article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2010/03/18/activex-test-container-application-is-still-available.aspx Pat Brenner Visual C++ Libraries Development

Whatever dude, no one else even replied to you. If I can remember your name I won't in the future.

Yep, just tracked that down. It's in System.Net.Mail, looks like there is a small sample in the MSDN code library. Thanks for the response.

No worries, at least I can make an informed decision. I am kind of inclined to just do this old-school and roll my own pseudo database and write the app in straight C/++. It will be screaming fast and have no platform dependencies. The time I would have spent ramping up on SQL, .NET, DAO, IIS, etc, can be spent on implementation. Thanks again for the input. NIK

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No runtime modification or localization needs. Decided to go with a simple XAML declaration of strings in Application.Resources and use typename.value as key (ID) name. No hard coded string IDs, and easy for non-programmers to maintain (notepad) in a centralized location.

k :) really curious.

I never use Convert. Take a look at myDouble.ToString ( "#.0##" )

Without any further information I'd say a HashTable or probably this UniqueStringList[^]. Robert

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It works just fine, it even creates the string that you want. It's only that you don't keep the reference to the string, so it floats around in heap limbo until it gets garbage collected. :) So close... ;) --- b { font-weight: normal; }

Such is life in .NET. Times like this I miss things like memcpy and void ** :)~

Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the pointer.

Sorry, the payment stuff was a refference to the post above "There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown

Rob Philpott wrote: but its a rubbish idea and I wish I'd never said anything now. :laugh::laugh::laugh: Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Perfect, great response. Thanks

You can add custom tracelisteners, which allow you to redirect your logging output to any place you like. Perhaps this article[^] will show you what you need to know about that. Once you have created your own tracelistener, you can add in whatever verbosity settings you need. :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

Dustin Metzgar wrote: 1. You can't use an attribute in the middle of a code block for stuff like writing to console only during debug That's the whole point. The attribute allows you to remove debug-only (or whatever-only) code from your "real" code. Since I started using it, I almost never use preprocessor directives anymore because it is just so much cleaner to factor the test/debug code out. Dustin Metzgar wrote: 2. VS will automatically hide a section of code depending on what's defined for the current configuration. Does this work with the attribute as well? No, but if you put all of your Conditional methods in one #region, or in a partial class extension, you'll have the same effect. Josh