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Okay, so using .NET 2.0 should be the simplest but which classes and that should be used? Most of the stuff is done remotely as well. Are there any classes or controls in NET 2.0 that actually allow interaction with Exchange? Interop style?

Alright. Probably one of the most niggly little things I've come across in my years of coding is deciding on how to go about developing an application which accesses Exchange Server 2003. I have the SDK and have been to site after site after site and yet there is no definitive way to go about coding for Exchange. So far the only real option is to use WebDAV. There's also CDO and the rest but which is best? I am now a .NET 2.0 developer through an through and having to muck about with XMLDOM and such is particularly tedious when all a person wants to do is check the Exchange Server for something simple like new email, etc. That aside, there are articles on the web for doing various things with Exchange but they almost always differ in the manner in which they get things done. What I really want to know is: What is the best way to go about accessing Exchange? What about using .NET 2.0? What sites are out there which are comprehensive about coding for Exchange? These are questions which alot of people want answered but alas there are only a few people out there with the experience and expertise to answer them. If anyone has any thoughts or opinions on the matter please post them. Thanks in advance! >_<

I'm trying to center the text of the column headings, right, but if you set the property to 'MiddleCenter' or 'TopCenter' or whatever, the text is not centered correctly! it has a left offset... does anyone know how to correct this? is their another way to do it?

Okay... I know that Decimal is accurate up to 29 digits and that Single and Double can store even larger numbers... what i want to know is: how much accuracy is lost using Single and Double? I think, because they use floating point, S and D become quite inaccurate *scratch* I'm not too sure... if anyone could help it would be a huge help thanks

I want to make an application which allows Greek and Hebrew characters to be inputted into a text box. How can i do this?

*scratch* i dont really have much of an idea... dont see how it would be possible either... the data is formatted differently... do you want to save the .doc text, images, etc into a visible format?

*blink* I dunno if i speak for anybody else but what exactly are you asking? *scratch* How do you want to embed the .doc file?

Try embedding the zip file as a resource. Should be able to search for how using MSDN, cant remember myself. You will most probably be able to manipulate it from there in some way *scratch* or you could just package it with the form... *shrug* there are a few ways AROUND it but go figure for the actual solution!

Righto! I've got a project that I'm working on and there's a particular style I wanna use (Using Visual Studio 2005 Pro btw). I like the look of the visual style of the tab control/pages. What I wanna do is use a tab control as a panel... (or any other method) so that it will look like this... ... except I cant get the label to change its background to that of the tab control (i think the label has the main form as a parent?). What i'm looking for is a way to make it look like it does in the image with the label having correct transpency. Is there a way to do this using tab controls? or is there a component out there that can be used instead? or is there a component that can be manipulated to look like that? *sigh* its really annoying so any help would be lank appreciated!

! Thanks for the help ! Its alot easier using another program as opposed to struggling to get through with FlashGet! I recommend FDM! It acts very similarly to FlashGet anyway so its not much of a change.... thanks again!

*scratch* okay so everyone has their own opinion on which Defrag is best but until a decent test is performed with all the latest versions of each Defrag (ie: PerfectDisk, Diskeeper and O&O) a clear winner cant be found... I get it that Windows uses a version of the one but that means nothing, personal opinions mean nothing (no offense!) so why doesnt someone test em and then show the stats? I think someone did that previously (like in 2004!) but that has no relevance now so TEST! test results cannot be disputed and it would be a huge help to those of us deciding which Defrag to purchase. Look forward to seeing the results! *thumb's up*

*nod* i've done that but when it authenticates i get: Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. ) Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Via:1.1 CS-PROXY Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Proxy-Authenticate: Kerberos Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Proxy-Authenticate: Negotiate Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Connection: close Wed Feb 22 06:48:37 2006 Proxy-Connection: close I've tried to authenticate myself through my username and password but it doesnt help... any suggestions?

*scratch* already tried that... just not too sure how to manage it properly, but i've tried most things out and still doest work!

VLC is awesome but its UI is bad, you have very little control during play (with 8.0.2 when in full screen you have no access to basic playback options *scratch* unless there's some I dont know about?). As far as being able to run all types of files... - VLC is King. MPC and MP 10 are both rad too. Their UI's are decent too, especially MP 10. PowerDVD is ok. Its nothing special. Another is BSPlayer which is pretty cool and allows for screen caps. 1. MP 10 2. VLC 3. MPC 4. BSPlayer 5. PowerDVD 6. ZoomPlayer and all those others

I spend alot of time at uiniversity and as such I have plenty of time to waste downloading things... problem is the internet keeps cutting out for some reason and the people in charge aren't particularly worried. So all my downloads cut out somewhere along the line and my time gets wasted... I thought I'd use FlashGet or some other manager to try and get over this problem but if I do use a manager it cant connect at all! I access the internet through a proxy which i rate is blocking FlashGet. Is there not some way to get around this? I'd really appreciate some help with this!

xp cd is fine, and all is running perfectly... replaced the power supply and pc is performing alot better than before.... havent had any problems since.... thank god for Zero Fill.... it was about 10% finished per hour at a constant rate so i doubt it was bad sectors that made it take so long

okay.... update time. tried saving the seagete's stuff but everytime i tried an xp installation would get an error, so Zero Fill it was. took about 10 hours (omg!) but at 2am this morning managed to successfully install xp! oh, it was a full Zero Fill, the quick Zero Fill did absolutely stuff all. so the drive is puttering along happily now and no issues... except when i ran SeaTools after installing XP, it said there were errors with the FAT on both the drive's partitions, lovely. XP however reports no problems (no surprise there) could there still be something amiss? oh yeah, after the quick zero fill, i tried the xp installation and all partitions were done and formatted, xp install files copied to drive and then restarted... when i tried booting off the drive it said ntdlr was missing and there were about five or six oddly coloured characters spaced randomly on the screen. n yesterday i read about a virus that caused that so ja. seems twas a virus after all gonna try and get the hitachi up asap, hopefully by next week. shot for the help

might be electric shock but hope it isnt... and the pins are perfect, no problems there... electric shock aside am gonna do some mucking about on the 'good' drive. could the electric shock business have the side effect of the monitor getting a zap? because once or twice ive noticed that my monitor has a very quick 'power failure' type thing and flickers once.... since the one drive is a seagate, have downloaded all the utils they have available and am gonna do a Zero Fill (as they call it) on the drive. if it was a virus then hopefully it should solve the problem, since if it was the mbr or whatever that got messed up, then all will be good after the drive's been reset... are the any worthwhile utils for Hitachi drives? i went to the main site and got some utils but was hoping there would be something else?

Recently I took my dump drive to a friend's place to copy some apps. Once all was set, he switched on his PC and got some message saying "non-system disk...", the message you get if you have no OS installed and what have you. so we fiddled with it a bit and still nothing. So we put both drives in his brother's PC to see if we couldnt do something there. Put em in and once in windows we had a look... despite both drives being partitioned nothing was picked up and XP asked us if we wanted to format. We cancelled. We did nothing to the drives afterwards. I went home and put my drive in with another working drive to see if i couldnt detect anythinig... but nothing. same problem. I took the stuffed drive out and did nothing with it for the weekend. I used my working drive for the whole weekend and all was cool. yesterday i got home and disconnected my good drive and put in the bad one with and XP S2 cd to try an see if i couldnt get it working. DISKPART couldnt see any partitions but could see 2GB of unallocated space I'd never used. which is odd since its 120GB. also in BIOS it was detected as a 2056MB drive. ive seen plenty of issues like this so i ran fixmbr to see if the mbr was stuffed... said the mbr found was non-standard or corrupted or some such, do i want to replace/repair it. yes. restarted and went back. still see no partitions or space cept the 2GB. ran fixmbr again and it said mbr non-standard or corrupted so used it again for luck... and nothing... still messed. so took out drive and reconnected good one so i could do some work... but now got "non-system disk" error like with my firends drive! when I'd used it perfectly fine about two hours beforehand. i was really not in a good mood. the drive was cable-select so moved it from primary master ide to secondary master... restart. runs and starts loading into windows but gets blue screen error and PC restarts. what the hell? swopped it bakc to primary master... now get "verifying DMI pool data" for like an hour so swopped it again and it started booting but then restarted. same with my friends drive - "verifying dmi pool data".... so of course now im really not happy! especially since i have a project due next week and i have no pc to work off! only good thin is with 'good' drive i can still detect the full 120 GB in bios. so i took em both to a friend and we ran norton on the 'bad' drive. It found 3 MBR's and 4 boot records but still only 2GB. dodgy. we took it to another friend who's also a techie and he put it in and fiddled for about 2 hours with it. he wiped 2 mbr's with MBRTool and with win 98se boot cd he ran fdisk. found the missing partition which is great! deleted all partitions and created new one... go into XP and couldnt detect the partition, not in comp management or with partition magic or anything... dodgy. so today he's gonna low-level format the bastard and see if that doesn help. next we put in the 'good' drive. detects the full partition but no way of recovering data so we deleted the partition and created a new and i went home to install XP. get home and start the process... all going good, chose partition, formatted partition, copied XP install files to partition and it restarted... going and then on attempting to boot from the drive... 'error loading operating system' *falls over*. tried new partitions, tried different XP setup cd as well but it gives the same problem.... ran fixmbr and it found "non-standard/corrupt" mbr... but i left it at that... can anyone help me with this? it is incredibly inconveniencing! i've basically lost 240GB of data (drives where both full) and now i cant even use them when i really REALLY need to! are there any viruses out at the moment that could have caused this! ive come across a few forums where to get XP to install i change the drive from auto to LBA or Large in BIOS to overcome "error loading OS" so im gonna try that when i get home but i dont see why that would make a difference when it was fine previously. so if someone could PLEASE help id really appreciate it! ive already lost all my data so ill try anything! thanks for taking the time to read this far

so its pointless tryna get around the framework then... lovely... i dont have a problem with .NET - as an ADE/IDE it rocks... its REALLY easy to use... i mean if you dont know how to use.... youve got problems i will say though that compared to other languages some of the properties available are minimal - but from what i hear .NET 2005 solves mosta these things... anyways.... shot for the help *salute*

I recently coded a really small program in VB.NET - about 500KB. Now is there any way to NOT have to have the .NET Framework installed in order to run the program? after a fresh reformat when i try and run the thing it gives an error occuring at some point in memory... can i not just supply the .dlls i used for the program and then run the program off them? its incredibly irritating! the actual gunctionality of the prog is really simple and shouldnt be a problem but it takes up about 16MB of RAM! if anyone can give me a way to not take up so much RAM and to run the program independent of the framework please let me know shot

i was reading your post but i couldnt quite understand what you were asking... could you maybe be a little clearer? do you want to add stuff, which isnt bound, to the detailsview?

@raza: shot for the help... it works like a charm!

*cough* could someone help please... onegai shimasu!

im running a simple windows app with plugins, but in order for the plugins to work i first need this piece of code to work. In theory it should work fine but in practice... well not quite. I have a similar app with the exact same piece of code and all is working fine so im really confused.... the error is generated by the Bolded code, i think the error message is something like "not all types can be loaded". if anyone can solve this issue id really appreciate it. shot Checks the specified directory for plugins of the correct type and then adds them to an array of availablePlugins Public Shared Function findPlugins(ByVal pluginPath As String, ByVal pluginInterfaceName As String) As availablePlugin() Dim plugins As New ArrayList Dim pluginDLL() As String Dim index As Integer Dim objDLL As [Assembly] 'Go through all DLLs in the directory, attempting to load them pluginDLL = Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(pluginPath, "*.dll") For index = 0 To pluginDLL.Length - 1 MessageBox.Show(pluginDLL(index)) Try objDLL = [Assembly].LoadFrom(pluginDLL(index)) examineAssembly(objDLL, pluginInterfaceName, plugins) Catch e As Exception MessageBox.Show("Debug") 'There has been an error in loading the DLL. No need to add any code here End Try Next 'Return all working plugins found Dim pluginsFound(plugins.Count - 1) As availablePlugin If plugins.Count <> 0 Then plugins.CopyTo(pluginsFound) Return pluginsFound Else Return Nothing End If End Function 'Check to see if the plugin implements the correct interface and if it does then add it to the list of availablePlugins Private Shared Sub examineAssembly(ByVal objDLL As [Assembly], ByVal pluginInterfaceName As String, ByVal plugins As ArrayList) Dim objType As Type MessageBox.Show("1") Dim objTypeA() As Type = objDLL.GetTypes MessageBox.Show("2") Dim objInterface As Type Dim plugin As availablePlugin 'Go through all types in the DLL to see if they are the required type Try For Each objType In objTypeA 'We only want Public types since that is how our types are defined If objType.IsPublic = True Then 'We dont want abstract classes so... If Not ((objType.Attributes And TypeAttributes.Abstract) = TypeAttributes.Abstract) Then 'We want to see if it implements pluginInterface objInterface = objType.GetInterface(pluginInterfaceName, True) If Not (objInterface Is Nothing) Then 'Since it does implement pluginInterface we add it to our array of availablePlugins plugin = New availablePlugin plugin.pluginPath = objDLL.Location plugin.pluginName = objType.FullName plugins.Add(plugin) End If End If End If Next Catch e As Exception MessageBox.Show(e.Message) End Try End Sub