venadder wrote: //return the input pointer to original value buff -= sizeof( int ); You're not returning anything. A pointer is not a reference. A pointer could be used as a reference, in which case you'd need a double pointer to modify buff so the calling function can see a change. Anyway what you are attempting to do is pointless as you are trying to preseve the original value, but the original value passed in by the calling function can't be changed in your function, you are only operating on a stack copy of the pointer value. memcpy(buffer, &someint, sizeof(int)); memcpy(((LPBYTE) buffer) + sizeof(int), myData, myDataSize);

venadder wrote: I changed it from dialog bar to CDialog anywyas. I have much more control and flexibility that way. It's easy to position teh window even with CDialog. Why oh why!!! Then what is the use of a Dialog bar!!!:sigh: You just have to provide a message handler for the button in the main frame class. That's all. Nothing more nothing less. Just like you would do for a toolbar button.:) Nibu thomas Software Developer

thankx a lot guys. Problem solved. Appreciate the help

A couple fo things: 1. The object was a CDialog so I changed the base class to CDialogBar 2.I used following code m_launchbar->Create( this,IDD_LAUNCHBAR,CBRS_BOTTOM ,IDD_LAUNCHBAR ); this docs the window fine at the bottom without any setting of position and size using the SetWindowPos. Now what happens is every button on the dialogbar is disabled and it took away the WinXp kind of look from the buttons too!!! Any ideas, am reading MSDN too on this. Thanks for your help , it was awesome

OK, no worries. There isn't AFAIK any other way to do this. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

brackets didn't help either. I changed the name of the table to Sections and everything is working fine. Thanks for all you guys help

Ok I think I know what the problem is. Sorry for the 'c:\temp.dat'. The path is actually '\\myserver\c$\temp.dat'. The status = 64 means The specified network name is no longer available ( ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED ). But the myserver is the name of the computer on which sql server runs. I mean sql server is installed on myserver. So it should be same as saying c:\temp.dat. So the query becomes dump database MYDB to disk = '\\myserver\c$\temp.dat' with init But in case of c:\temp.dat it succeeds and in case of \\myserver\c$\temp.dat it fails ( it used to work, but ahs been failing recently). Now i tried following. 1. I am able to access c drive on myserver by typing \\myserver\c$ in windows explorer from another computer on LAN. 2. I am able to access c drive by typing \\myserver\c$ in the windows explorer on myserver. 3. ping 127.0.0.1 return normal results on myserver. So why does windows generates ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED when i run dump database MYDB to disk = '\\myserver\c$\temp.dat' with init in query analyzer???

Sorry, I did not see that (unhighlighted) command mentioned in your second post. This sounds more like a SQL issue rather than a C++ issue. Do you agree? Have you consulted the microsoft.public.sqlserver.* newsgroups? "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow

A clip from an older project. Deletes all connections. Modify to suite your needs. Hope this helps. /+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- // DeleteAllConnections() // Purpose: Delete all network connections // Added : 4/06/04 //+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- void TestDlg::DeleteAllConnections() { DWORD dwResult; HANDLE hEnum; DWORD cbBuffer = 16384; DWORD cEntries = 0xFFFFFFFF; LPNETRESOURCE lpnrDrv; #if _DEBUG return; #endif dwResult = WNetOpenEnum( RESOURCE_CONNECTED, RESOURCETYPE_ANY,0,NULL,&hEnum ); if (dwResult != NO_ERROR) { GetErrorMsg(dwResult); return; } // start enumerating all the connections while( dwResult != ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS ) { lpnrDrv = (LPNETRESOURCE) GlobalAlloc( GPTR, cbBuffer ); dwResult = WNetEnumResource( hEnum, &cEntries, lpnrDrv, &cbBuffer); if (dwResult == NO_ERROR) { for( DWORD ii = 0; ii < cEntries; ii++ ) { if( lpnrDrv[ii].lpLocalName != NULL ) dwResult=WNetCancelConnection(lpnrDrv[ii].lpLocalName, TRUE ); else dwResult=WNetCancelConnection(lpnrDrv[ii].lpRemoteName,TRUE ); GetErrorMsg(dwResult); } } } // cleanup GlobalFree( (HGLOBAL) lpnrDrv ); WNetCloseEnum(hEnum); } Erik

I got a little proglem here though The computer which I am interested in is on LAN. that is the computer running SQL SERVER and where SQLSERVERAGENT service should be running. the problem is OpenSCManager function returns RPC server not available if I use the following call: ::OpenSCManager( "\\servername", SERVICES_ACTIVE_DATABASE, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS ); and it paase and returns a handle if I make this call hscManager = ::OpenSCManager( "servername", SERVICES_ACTIVE_DATABASE, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS ); the subsequent call to ::OpenService passes if i do this hscService = ::OpenService( hscManager, serviceName, SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS ); but then the call to QueryServiceStatus fails if i do the following ::QueryServiceStatus( hscService, lpServiceStatus ) the error code says Invalid Handle (i assume hscService ). What am i doing wrong here? If the calls to openscmanager and openservice paas the QueryServiceStatus fails. but if I append "\\" to the servername the openscmanager fails. what is going on here?? Anyone can help?

SHFileOperation uses the rights of the logged on user . Are you sure you passed the data correctly? Is your string double null terminated? John

It is possible to get the value of %windir% with several functions, amongst them char *getenv( const char *varname ); but from what I understand in your msg, you do not want to use any initialisation, e.g. function call. So I am afraid that the answer to venadder wrote: can I do that? is : yes, you can, but it will unfortunately not be replaced at runtime with "C:\Winnt". :~ So, be ready to modify your 60 files X| ~RaGE();