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Hello, I want to write an application in C# that controls the Windows Print Spooler service. How do I know if the service is still responding? I know how to check if the service is running or stopped, but I want to detect if the running printspooler is really still active and accepting new...

Hello, I want to know if it is possible to connect a Progress database WITHOUT ODBC? Is this somehow possible? Thanks in advance... nick;

Hello, I have a question about bringing windows to the foreground. My application enumerates all windows to find a window with a title that contains (parts of) a given title. When a window is found, it must be brought to the foreground. I use the following code to do this: void __fastcall...

Hello, I want to write an applic that detects when a certain messagebox is being displayed by another application. After I detected the messagebox, I want to push a button on that messagebox programmatically, so that the messagebox disappears. So I just want the get rid of a warning message...

Hey, I need to preview/print technical images created by Corel Designer 9.0. I have to do this from my own application... Is there a tool to preview/print those .DSF-files or CONVERT them into bitmaps or jpegs or so? I know you can export those files manually to the desired graphical format...

Hi, I need to encode a message with the Rijndael C++ classes found on the code project(http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/aes.asp), and decode that encoded message in a C#-appication. Can anybody tell me what the correct implementation in C# is of that code project code? Of course using the...

Hello everybody, I have a little question about Serialization. I have written an application that Serializes a Hashtable to a file on disk. Now I want to open this serialize-file from another application, but I get an error that the assembly from where I serialized the Hashtable in the first...

Hey, I am writing a Windows service application in C#. In this service, I am using a timer that performs actions at a certain time. My problem: this timer does not seem to run. When I create a simple Windows Service applic, with only 1 timer in it, it does not work either... What to do to...

Hey, a little SQL question: I have a SQL-database which contains barcodes(strings). Now I have to delete a range of barcodes from the DB, I know where the deletion begins (startbarcode to delete and the stopbarcode). I illustrate my question with a simple example: my database contains the...

Hey, I am writing a PPC 2003 application in C# that requires to Auto PowerUp the device at midnight to perform a backup. Can anybody tell me how to do this? I tried to adapt the registry "Registry\HKCU\ControlPanel\Power\AutoOnTime" , but this doesn't seem to work... Thanks in advance, Nick

Hey, some self-written programs in our company-network report a strange error, when trying to send an email. An exception is generated, caused by the windows socket-error 10038 : "Socket operation on non-socket". I think there is something wrong with the network (and not the...

Hey, I have a problem installing the .NET SDK 1.1 downloaded from microsoft.com. When I doubleclick the setup.exe file, windows complains that it is NOT a valid win32 executable. How is this possible ??? What am I doing wrong ? Thank you, nick

Hey, I am writing a small program, and it has to display a simple picture in a window (JFrame).I can draw and display the pic, but when I use frame.pack(), the size of the frame is too small to display the pic! I have drawn the pic on a regular JPanel with drawImage() in the paintComponent()...

Hi, I want to block a serial port, to prohibit my employees to use the Internet via a serial port modem. Is there an easy way to do this in VB, maybe using a special control like mscomm ??? Thanks in advance, Dominique

How do you use SetupOpenInfFile in an C++ program ?? Is this possible to do, 'cause I get Linking errors all the time ???

Hi, I have a problem... I wrote a little VB6-program, which the user can hide when he wants to do so (no form is visible, not even in the taskmanager). To make the program visible again (the VB-form on the screen), the user has to type the word "RETURN". So I needed to capture...

Hi, does anybody know how to add a key in the registry in a simple way...(maybe without the API ???) ??? I only need to add 1 key, in the run-section of the reg, to start my application automatically with windows... I don't want the loads of lines to add an key to "overload" my...

Hello, Recently, I have written an email program using the Winsock-control and SMTP, and everything works fine, but I have only one problem left : sending attachments with the email. I looked around on the WWW for info about SMTP and how to add attachments to an email, but didn't find a decent...

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to know the standard SMTP-server-name used by a certain client computer by reading a value in the windows register ??? Thank you....nick

Hi, I've been programming C++ in Borland, and I recently tried something out in Visual C++, but there are a lot of differences ... My problem : * how to program interrupts (BIOS) in Visual C++ ??? * is there something like the REGS and SREGS struct in Visual C++ * what function to...