it's actually my biggest gripe, in not only development but anything technical, we don't need primadonnas on the team. we need people who show their support by volunteering information, not hording it.

Can you expand on your "antithesis of 'fluent'" comment, please?

I don't know if it quite qualifies as an "app store", but I used to use 4pockets.com (which has now reverted to being under production). [edit] It's on the wayback machine[^]. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

A few line-breaks would go a long way towards making that wall of text more readable. :) "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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Thanks, but that won't validate February or 30 versus 31 days properly.

You need 2 or 3 files to implement this - .cer for the public key, .pvk for the private key and optionally (recommended) a .pfx for the combined certificate store key. This is the sequence i've used before to generate all the bits: makecert -n "CN=My Secure Key" -sv "MyKey.pvk" MyKey.cer cert2spc "MyKey.cer" "MyKey.spc" pvk2pfx -pvk "MyKey.pvk" -pi KeyPassword -spc "MyKey.spc" -pfx "MyKey.pfx" -f Once you have the files, embed the .cer in the 'public' past of your code, Install the .pfx in the server certificate store. Load the .cer with X509Certificate2 & find the private key in X509Store, e.g. _publicCert = New X509Certificate2() _publicCert.Import(My.Resources.PublicKeyCer) Dim certStore As X509Store = New X509Store() certStore.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly) For Each installObj As X509Certificate2 In certStore.Certificates.Find(X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, _publicCert.Thumbprint, False) Next Hope this helps, Rob "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"

No, I am only looking for suggestions toanswer your #1. I know how I will code for your #2. Thanks for the suggestion.

They appear to be the same, when I look at the printerresolutions collection.

yep. catching and somehow showing all exceptions is a powerful technique. whenever I see an empty catch statement (and that is quite frequently around here, some people think it is wise to skip or postpone error handling), I make sure the perpetrator will not forget about it any time soon ... :) Luc Pattyn Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!

I finally discovered what was causing the error. In the DataTable definition for the column in which the combobox was not being displayed, the datatype was defined as Int16. I changed it to Int32 and it works swimmingly.

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It took me going home last night and clearing my head. When I came in today, I started walking through all the memory allocation in that process. I found a copy/paste error that was corrupting the heap.

also, you might want to track WM_MOUSELEAVE message. here is a snip to how to get this message: // we want to know when the mouse is leaving TRACKMOUSEEVENT structEventTrack; structEventTrack.cbSize = sizeof(structEventTrack); structEventTrack.dwFlags = TME\_LEAVE; structEventTrack.hwndTrack = this->GetSafeHwnd(); structEventTrack.dwHoverTime = HOVER\_DEFAULT; // this is not used, though \_TrackMouseEvent(&structEventTrack); // we want to receive WM\_MOUSELEAVE message and in your handler to WM_MOUSELEAVE message, you might want to clear your flags which was set during mousemove.

I figured it out. I case anyone else is interested, I did it as follows: // sets up the mask BitBlt(hdcDst,31,234,43,36,hdcSrc,31,234,SRCCOPY); clrOldText = SetTextColor(hdcSrc,RGB(255,255,255)); SetBkColor(hdcSrc,RGB(0,0,0)); BitBlt(hdcSrc,31,234,43,36,hdcTmp,31,234,SRCAND); BitBlt(hDC,31,234,43,36,hdcTmp,31,234,SRCAND); BitBlt(hDC,31,234,43,36,hdcSrc,31,234,SRCPAINT); If anyone sees any inherent flaws herein, please point them out. My colors looked right and nothing was obscured on the background, so I called it 'fixed'.:) things could always be worse...