Well, Lets go to the benefits: The Microsoft Oriented Firm is far away the other one is quit near The Microsoft Oriented Firm has promised to increment 5,000 PKR after six months while the Open Source is promising the same after 3 months and again 5,000 PKR in next 3 months. Microsoft Oriented firm gives health insurance the other firm does not Microsoft Oriented firm gives 2 months salary as a bonus every year, while other does not. Well, one of the guy pointed out why I am asking these questions when even i don't know... So the answer is that we, the developers are a separate community tied in a different sort of brotherhood. Many of you will be far more experienced and visionary about the things then I am... Polite Programmer More Object Oriented then C#

It is possible that your field name (Translations) is a keyword for the Jet Engine SQL implementation. Try enclosing it in square brackets [Translation] to avoid interpretation as a keyword. If that fails, implement the insert using a parameterized insert stored procedure (querydef in Access Lingo) and use an SQLCommand to execute it from C#. This almost always works, as SQL syntax is interpreted at the database, and data values are cleanly encapsulated, avoiding any parsing problems. Using stored procedures and commands also makes your application far less vulnerable to sql injection attacks.

Follow the steps I gave and odds are the dubugger will take you straight to the source of the problem. Steve

Ron Savage wrote: Another excellent bit of advice, yet again completely outside the context of the discussion. Is it?! Ron Savage wrote: Neither the original question nor my response involved building a query from any external data. Who's to say where the data came from? The OP certainly didn't. So any discussion on the matter is pure speculation without a definitive answer from the OP. As such, it becomes important that the issue of SQL Injection is raised... just in case. Ron Savage wrote: Without the inclusion of external text that may at some point have been entered by an end user of the program - SQL Injection attacks are not an issue. Hardcoding fully formed SQL statements into one's program is hardly common. The more common scenario is that the statement contains some variable data. As such, in case the OP is giving a simplified example (which is common) it "yet again" becomes important to raise the issue of SQL Injection Attacks. Upcoming events: * Glasgow: SQL Server 2005 - XML and XML Query Plans, Mock Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services... Never write for other people. Write for yourself, because you have a passion for it. -- Marc Clifton My website

I sort of take the shotgun approach - that is, I take all approaches. I first read up a little, then jump in and start codeing, and then read more in depth. When you first start learning a new technology it can be daunting so it's best not to dwell. Try to be flexible - don't get hung up on something.

OK, then intellisense should help you out a fair bit, although you still need to look up all those constants. I still need to do the same, for a lot of the APIs I don't use so often. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

I think you are mixing to many types of chars (i.e TCHARs, chars and LPSTRs). I think u have a confusion regarding there usage. First of all from ur code.... TCHAR *szUnicodeText = new TCHAR[(iLen / 2) + (iLen / 100) * 10] ; you give an impression that TCHAR == Unicode character???? this is a wrong assumption. The definition of TCHARs can be found in headers its something like #if defined _UNICODE #define TCHAR WCHAR #else #define TCHAR CHAR #enif so depending upon your build type (unicode or ansi) the type and hence the size of the TCHARs changes. I think you are trying to make some sort of clipbroard viewer to display the unicode and hex value of the data on the clipboard. try using this code instead in your DrawClipboard notification if(OpenClipboard()) { HANDLE hMemory = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT) ; TCHAR *lptstr = (TCHAR*) GlobalLock(hMemory) ; if(hMemory == NULL || lptstr == NULL) { CloseClipboard() ; } int iLen = _tcslen(lptstr) ; TCHAR *szInPageData = new TCHAR[iLen + 1] ; _tcscpy(szInPageData, lptstr) ; USES_CONVERSION; LPWSTR szUnicodeText = T2W(szInPageData); GlobalUnlock(hMemory) ; ::SendMessage( hNextViewer, WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD, 0, 0 ) ; //ConvertInPageToUncode(szInPageData, iLen, szUnicodeText) ; DumpHex( W2T(szUnicodeText), GetSafeHwnd()) ; //SetDlgItemText(hWnd, IDC_EDIT_UNICODE, szUnicodeText) ; delete [] szInPageData ; } Trust me, nothing's impossible!

Polite Programmer wrote: Okay nice, I've got a DLL and I know it has that much functions along with these params and return tyeps. How can I call them in my program as I dont have the "declerations" for these? Please if someone can explain me the step by step procedure... I'll be thankfull... if the dll contain decorated name you can runb UNDNAME.EXE exe "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow cheers, Alok Gupta VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV Support CRY- Child Relief and You

It implies that if I create a DLL, I will get a .LIB file for free? Any details or any article addressing these issues please? Polite Programmer More Object Oriented then C#

Uh.. which part of Win32 API did you not understand?

A good concise explanation. The only thing missing is to point out that __declspec(selectany) isn't portable; but I guess that would be obvious to most as it's a __declspec. Steve

As you all guyes sugested, Its not a linking problem, but compliation problem. I have mentioned all the libs like GL32.lib etc.... Amazing fact is that I am including two files from include/gl directory and those are gl.h and glu.h but no error at all! I put GLUT.h in the same directory, and following statment prodcues error #include <gl/glut.h> Strange... Any clue now? Polite Programmer More Object Oriented then C#

It is difficult to switch context. This is probably one of the reasons I've never really tackled web development. In one scenario, you have to know C#, the Web namespace, ASP.NET programming concepts, HTML, Javascript, and SQL (yes, there are other combinations, but eegads, it's still a lot). Since web development isn't anything that I do for a living, learning HTML, Javascript, and getting proficient at ASP.NET programming is quite a bit to do for just for fun. On the other hand, if someone paid me to do it, you bet I'd invest the time and energy. So, I guess, I like to digest knew things in small doses when it's on my own time, but I don't mind tackling the whole shebang if the job requires it. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing

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Under Environment/Keyboard in the options dialog you can switch the keyboard mapping scheme to the one used in VS6 if you like it better.

MFC is not only a set of classes, it is an entiere framework. if you plan to program a console based program, you won't use MFC... more, STL (standard template library) provides a collection of containers and algorythms that permit to manipulate every types (it is the purpose of the templates). TOXCCT >>> GEII power

even better, write a simple app in straight assembly for hardware other than a Windows based computer -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!

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