You can use RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.DisplayName. Don't forget to reference namespace System.Globalization. Regards:rose:

IIRC is "if I recall correctly". :) When you pass a delegate instance in for the lpfn parameter of SetWindowsHookEx, make that delegate be a field in your class so that it doesn't get disposed; as I recall, since the object is being passed into a native method, then never used again, the garbage collector cleans up the delegate, causing your hook to fail. So one thing to check is make sure the delegate you pass into SetWindowsHookEx stays alive. Windows may have some mechanism so that if the process eating the keyboard is not responding (i.e. busy do to lots of work) it may send out the key events to other processes. Can you make your work occur on another thread, thus keeping the hook procedure thread free? That'd be ideal. Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: God-as-Judge, God-as-Forgiver The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

There are several ways to accomplish that, i've created a few apps using this feature (it gets boring though ;-)) and most were built from an example found on codeproject. I say, look through the articles, those guys spend a lot of time writing them, and are worth reading! - - - --[ i love it when a plan comes together ]-- - - -

Hi all if it intrests anyone.. the notification message that i was talking about was set with TopMost=true this cause auto activation and force to get focus. thats why it got some last focus. why i did is overided the property ShowWithoutActivation and everything start to work. protected override bool ShowWithoutActivation { get { return true; } } thanks man. R.Z

Thats the code that give you on msn and notepad. i'm looking to work also on Word and Yahoo... private Point getCaretLocation() { IntPtr hFocus = (IntPtr)GetForegroundWindow(); IntPtr hFore; IntPtr id=IntPtr.Zero; if (hFocus != IntPtr.Zero) { hFore= (IntPtr)GetForegroundWindow (); AttachThreadInput((int)GetWindowThreadProcessId((int)hFore, id), GetCurrentThreadId(), 1); hFocus = (IntPtr)GetForegroundWindow(); Point mypoint=Point.Empty; GetCaretPos(ref mypoint); Console.WriteLine(mypoint.ToString()); ClientToScreen (hFocus, ref mypoint); return mypoint; } return Point.Empty; } R.Z

You can create a window and set it's parent window, I'm not sure if it will work for another process, but it's worth a try. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

If I understand it correctly, the setup.exe that a deployment project creates will run any checks for prerequists that your install needs (Windows Installer, MDAC, SQL Express, Crystal Reports, etc.) And once it is done with this, then it calls the MSI file to install your program. If you need both files, you might want to just zip them. WinZip has an application to zip files into a self extracting exe that can call your setup.exe after unzipping. I think it's about $50. Check out winzip.com if you are interested.

Also see this[^] article which is a framework for retrieving information from the web, which seems like what you appear to be doing. (Its MFC analog can be found here[^] and several applications of this class can be found here[^].) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

ranzask wrote: since the script is local on my computer, it do not alert any security issues when i execute a program using Shell.run("blabla.exe") That seems like a much better way than my idea. I'm glad you've got it sorted :) Cheers, Will H

There are *expensive* 3rd party tools that can create a standalone executable by statically linking the needed parts of the framework into your app, there isn't a provided way to do so.

ok thanks you all. i will install it then. thanks. R.Z

Nope. You'd be going through the same problem just to get a snapshot of the form. You'd also have to wait until the thing draw the REAL form to get usable controls. If you're only using a few controls and pics, then what's taking so long? Perhaps a code profile would be in order. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

the final code is: using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Threading; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; namespace yournamespace { public class WSounds { private byte[] m_soundBytes; private bool disable=false; private enum Flags { SND_ASYNC = 0x0001, SND_MEMORY = 0x0004 } [DllImport("winmm.dll",CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Winapi)] static extern int PlaySound(byte[] wfname,int hMod,int sf); public WSounds(string s) { if (s == null) { disable = true; return; } try { Stream a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(s); m_soundBytes = new byte[a.Length]; a.Read(m_soundBytes, 0, (int)a.Length); } catch (Exception e) { disable = true; } } public void Play() { if (!disable) PlaySound(m_soundBytes, 0, (int)(Flags.SND_ASYNC | Flags.SND_MEMORY)); } } } then in your main code you must add a file to your resources list "file.wav" for example that will be along the classes..and change his property to :"embedded resources" so it will compile him along with the exe. and you call the class this way: private WSounds ws; ws = new WSounds("yournamespace.file.wav"); ws.Play(); thats it. R.Z -- modified at 6:05 Monday 30th January, 2006

No idea. I don't use the Express versions and I haven't used ClickOnce deployment yet. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Why post this in a ntoerh thread? What was wrong with the first one you had going? You can either try the normal Keyboard and Mouse hooks in a .DLL, or you can try the WH_CALLWNDPROC hook and filter for the Keyboard and Mouse messages yourself. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

You can use WH_KEYBOARD and WH_MOUSE. These will give you the scan codes for keys pressed and mouse messages like move, click, etc., respectively. The article I linked shows an example and other articles on this site have further examples. I encourage you to use the other features of this web site. There's thousands of articles at your disposable with a rating system in place so you know which ones are good. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Customer Product-lifecycle Experience Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

have you tried googling "Setup and Deployment Projects" aspect of visual studio. Also there is an article on codeproject on how to setup and deploy projects using visual studio (i think!!!). Enjoy! edit: try this http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/April/SetupProjects.asp

Thanks. i will try it. :):) R.Z