So you are agreeing that it does not in fact answer the question?

You could: use sql server and also use sqlcachedependency and dump the table to NT memory. that way you are caching the records in NT memory and it will pole sql server looking for changes. if a change is found, it replaces the cache and again the NT memory is in sink with the database. 'Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.' ~ anonymous 'Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.' ~ anonymous

Luc Pattyn wrote: Magic powder perhaps. You are wrong! Magic powder sits out of managed heap and there is no way for it to reduce memory allocated for managed strings. :) Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

You can create a zip file. Here are some articles[^] about how to do that in code. But I'm not sure this is exactly what you are looking for either. In order to use a zipped file you'd have to convert it back to the file type it was before, which would increase it back to it's original size as well. But if you are looking to compress it as a means of archiving or backing up this may work for you. Good luck!

Not sure what you want exactly, however there are 4 overloads to DrawImageUnscaled, and 30 to DrawImage; there is bound to be one that can do what you want, remember you are allowed to give fractional and negative locations. BTW: when drawing onto a Bitmap, use Graphics.FromImage(). :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

I can do that in a fast way with or without a database. And everyone can come up with a slow implementation with or without a database. Getting it slow with a database is harder to achieve, since there is less code to mess with. FYI: de database has to read the data from disk too, and search your string too, so why would it really be faster? :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

The article is followed by some discussions, where one of the participants is having the problems you're having, and he came up with a solution for it. If it still would not work, you'd better post there. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

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TheMrProgrammer wrote: For x = 0 to listbox1.Items.Count-1 strVar &= listbox1.Items(x).ToString Next for counts of many tenthousands, this is non-seense: the final result would probably be a string with a length exceeding one million characters, however building it also creates tenthousands of intermediate strings of growing length, so your code is bound to be extremely slow, and may well run out of memory. furthermore, there was no need whatsoever to concatenate everything, since File class also has a WriteAllLines() method, which takes an array of strings. finally, if you do not absolutely need to hold lots of data in memory, then don't. Just write the text lines as you get them. I know you are failing here so far, due to reasons unknown to all of us as you still haven't shown us real code. Lacking that, I will not continue this thread. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care.

simple way is to use of dropbox/Google drive /skydrive or any other similar software and upload your file there and then share the link with users whom you want to download the software. Ravi Khoda

I think what the other replies you have had to your question have failed to take into account, is the type of projects you are working on. The type of project may determine the best language, for example the .NET languages are only really suitable for Windows based programs. If you indent to write programs for embedding into other devices or Unix type systems, then C++ would be a better choice. Steve Jowett ------------------------- Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

At a minimum, the hwnd parameter should be declared as an Intptr, not an Integer. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

I'm afraid you're going to have to read the manual. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

thanks

Hi, 1. a simple timer will not provide small steps such as 1 msec (see my timers article for details). 2. you don't need such small times anyway; a movie is built with some 24 frames per second, that is 40 msec per frame. 3. you do need double-buffering, so you don't see the building-up of each frame. 4. As Dave said, get rid of the Controls, paint it all to a single Panel. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

Google for unknown acronyms. OTOH means 'On The Other Hand' Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

Or you can Google for the "VB.NET Power Packs". The 3.0 version has shape controls in it like those that used to be in VB6. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

The process is known as PInvoke or P/Invoke. If you search MSDN, or Google on those terms you will get lots of examples. Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

It's an interface you have to implement in your code. This is not a function you call, but an interface that you are expected to flesh out so WMP can call YOU. TheMrProgrammer wrote: any ideas how to use it in vb I have some ideas, but they involve HEAVY knowledge of COM interop. Something that I can't really explain in a forum. There's also a reason why I said you probably won't find any examples in VB doing this. It is far from easy to do. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008