Recent content by JTeagle

* bangs head on wall * Yes, it did get disabled. Suddenly, I can ping outside. What frustrates me is, I'm very sure it was on yesterday when I first discovered it was AWOL... but I guess I had a firewall confusing the issue (firewalls have been uninstalled temporarily while I sorted this out)...

I periodically move my furniture around at home (hey, it's a hobby, OK? :) ) and so I have to unplug and re-connect my mini-LAN at those times. Normally when I put everything back together, it all works give or take a couple of physical cable plug checks. But this time, it's all gone...

Well, it's a nice plug <GRIN>...

I admire your optimism {:v)

&quot;And it compiles taking advantage of the hardware it is running on&quot; I may be misunderstanding what you mean here, but how can it do this? (a) I thought it all compiled to CLR, i.e., cross-platform, and (b), the development environment's hardware isn't necessarily going to be the same...

Although I understand what you are saying and recognise that you are pleased with your coding because of it, is it really any different than developing the back end as a COM object and the front ends in their various separate environments (for example, VC++ and InterDev (ASP) )? I'm just trying...

Nice one, thankyou.

Hmmm... that's a great trick, but I was thinking of opening a browser window with a new document in it - like an advertisement, or some info, or something - the VBScript equivalent of JavaScript's &quot;window.open(...)&quot;. I'm sorry for not making that clearer in the post.

Yes, I agree about MS' IDEs - they are fantastic. I wish MS had simply made J++ = Sun's Java + MS' IDE - it would have been the best. It seems to me that .NET is great for the coding community as a whole since we all end up using the same tools but can stick to our own preferred languages - and...

As it happens, I had already read that first named thread before I posted here - the second named thread was slightly more informative {:v) I see I got CRL letters right but the meaning totally wrong - that's speedreading for ya {:v)

Thankyou, that was a nice explanation. I can't say I'm sold on it yet. Do you know if this compiled code (called something like CRL &quot;Compiled Runtime Library&quot; I think) is browser-dependent or a sort of Java codebyte-style native program that runs without the browser? I'm wondering if...

No, really? <SARCASM> I did that - Microsoft's info is all marketing spiel that really doesn't say what .NET accomplishes that existing languages can't, and anywhere else all I find is &quot;How to do such-and-such in C# / .NET&quot; - again, not an explanation of what .NET is. Please, if you...

OK folks, I'm going to take an aggressive stance here - just what is the point of this &quot;exciting new technology&quot;, and what's &quot;new&quot; about it? Perhaps people could describe what all this .NET stuff does for the programmer / user that can't be done with existing languages and...

Is it possible to open a popup window using VBScript only? Yes, I _know_ I can do it with JS, but I want to know if it is possible with VBS - if JS can do it, I'd expect MS to make sure that VBS can also do it.

Unfortunately simple doesn't come into it where comms in VC are concerned. To open a port: hCommHandle = CreateFile(&quot;COM1&quot;, GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL); To set the Baud rate and stuff: DCB sDCB ; GetCommState(hCommHandle, &sDCB); sDCB.BaudRate =...