actually it is the same when it comes to managed but I found the answer. It turns out that when I add a new event I have to pass in the class that's calling the event: ... m_codeProject->MessageReceived += gcnew MessageReceivedEventHandler(this, &NS::MessageReceived_Message); ... thanks! Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I can't get my delegate/event to work. It keeps giving me a compiler error of 'the specified function does not match the delegate type'. This is what I have: ... public delegate void MessageReceivedEventHandler(MessageDetails^ Message); ... ref class CodeProject { public: event MessageReceivedEventHandler^ MessageReceived; ... ... CodeProject^ m_codeProject; m_codeProject->MessageReceived += gcnew MessageReceivedEventHandler(&NS::MessageReceived_Message); ... private: System::Void MessageReceived_Message(MessageDetails^ Message); It seems that everything is fine but it won't compile. Please help. Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Is there a way to adjust the height of the rows in a listview? It seems that the function GetItemRect gets called when painting the control but it's not virtual so I can't override it. Will I have to do all the painting myself? Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

How would I go about embedding a combobox in a cell of a listview when set to details view? I've looked at this article ListViewEmbeddedControls[^] but unfortuatly the combobox height is bigger than the row height. Can I maybe overwrite the row height before drawing? Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Does anyone know of a control or method for creating an options dialog like that used by visual studio? Basically there's a treeview on the left side of the dialog and depending on what you select it displays the panel that's associated to that node. I tried to implement this with a tabcontrol in vs2005 but there's no way to hide the tabs at the top. Can I just override that pain event? Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

thanks for the reply. what http commands would I use to send the mail? I tried quickly searching google but it was talking about ssh tunneling, is this what you're talking about? thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

That worked. Thanks! I guess I should keep an eye on what scope the variables are in. Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

have you tried menuItem1.PerformClick() ? Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I know how to use the System.Web.Mail class to send mail through smtp but I want to use this for error reporting for one of my programs and I don't have a public smtp server. Are there free smtp servers that I can relay this through or is there a better way to report errors to me? Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I've never done javascript before but I need to be able to detect which browser the user is running. I've searched the net and copied some code to do this. It's simple and I understand what it does but I can't get the .html page to display different text per browser. This is what I have in my html: <!-- if(BrowserDetect()!="Internet Explorer") { document.write('Other'); } else { document.write('Internet Explorer'); } // --> and this is the code that I found on the internet: function BrowserDetect() { var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var OS,browser,version,total,thestring; if (checkIt('konqueror')) { browser = "Konqueror"; OS = "Linux"; } else if (checkIt('safari')) browser = "Safari" else if (checkIt('omniweb')) browser = "OmniWeb" else if (checkIt('opera')) browser = "Opera" else if (checkIt('webtv')) browser = "WebTV"; else if (checkIt('icab')) browser = "iCab" else if (checkIt('msie')) browser = "Internet Explorer" else if (!checkIt('compatible')) { browser = "Compatible" version = detect.charAt(8); } else browser = "An unknown browser"; if (!version) version = detect.charAt(place + thestring.length); if (!OS) { if (checkIt('linux')) OS = "Linux"; else if (checkIt('x11')) OS = "Unix"; else if (checkIt('mac')) OS = "Mac" else if (checkIt('win')) OS = "Windows" else OS = "an unknown operating system"; } document.rs_browser=browser; document.rs_OS=OS; document.rs_version=version; return browser; } function checkIt(string) { place = detect.indexOf(string) + 1; thestring = string; return place; } When I view my page in either FireFox or IE it doesn't generate any errors but it also doesn't display any sort of text. Please Help, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Thank You! That worked like a charm. Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Okay, I tried running my program on a couple different computers and they all had the same result; it would fatal error instead of using my error report. Does it matter that I am using an MDI form with child forms? Maybe it's crapping out because a child form is erroring but then that doesn't explain why it works in debug mode and not in release. Any suggestions? Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

can't you just use ShowDialog? that should make B be active even if you select A. Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I deliberatly try to set an int equal to a textbox string. And of course it throws 'Input string was not in a correct format.' When I do this in debug mode it catches the error, shows my dialog and everything is fine. But if I do the same proceedure in release mode I get the dafult .NET error dialog and it doesn't show my dialog. Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I've already tried that and it doesn't even hit the dialog. When I run it in 'release mode' it won't even hit the 'end of try' dialog. It just errors. This is what I had. static void Main() { try { System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles(); System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new frmMDI()); System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("end of try"); } catch(System.Exception e) { System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("start of catch"); System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new frmErrorReport(e)); System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("end of catch"); //frmErrorReport frm = new frmErrorReport(e); //frm.ShowDialog(); } } -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I'm trying to implement an error report in my program so that when it crashes it pops up a dialog that allows you to fill in some information and then send it along through email. The problem that I'm having is when I debug the program in VS it crashes gracefully, just like it's supposed to. But when I run it as a standalone .exe it just errors as if there is no try/catch statement. This is what I have for my Main function. If there are any suggestions please let me know. static void Main() { try { System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles(); System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new frmMDI()); } catch(System.Exception e) { System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new frmErrorReport(e)); //frmErrorReport frm = new frmErrorReport(e); //frm.ShowDialog(); <----- I've also tried this but I get the same results } } -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

wow, thank you very much. I didn't know something like this existed and it's very interesting. Looks like this is what I'm going to use. Thanks, Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

That sounds very interesting, thank you. What do you mean by 'use alternate data streams'? Does this mean I can embedd info in the file and still have other programs read the file? That would really helpful if I could do that instead. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I came across this article http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ShellID3TagReader.asp[^] and so I tried doing exactly as shown but it's not working. When the folder.GetDetailsOf function returns it's blank but I know for a fact that there this mp3 has an ID3 tag. Furthermore when I add the extra columns in Windows Explorer to see the mp3 info it doesn't display anything. Can my Shell32 be broken somehow? Here's the code I have (even though it's the same in the article): MP3File mp3File = new MP3File(); string fileName = FilePath.Substring(FilePath.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1); string filePath = FilePath.Substring(0, FilePath.LastIndexOf("\\")); Shell32.Shell shell = new Shell32.ShellClass(); Shell32.Folder folder = shell.NameSpace(filePath); Shell32.FolderItem folderItem = folder.ParseName(fileName); if(folderItem != null) { mp3File.FileName = fileName; mp3File.AlbumName = folder.GetDetailsOf(folderItem, 17); mp3File.ArtistName = folder.GetDetailsOf(folderItem, 16); mp3File.SongTitle = folder.GetDetailsOf(folderItem, 10); mp3File.TrackNumber = folder.GetDetailsOf(folderItem, 19); } folderItem = null; folder = null; shell = null; return mp3File; I'm using XPpro SP2. Please Help, Rob Tomson -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

How would I go about doing that? Thanks, Rob -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.