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To be totally honest with you ,IMHO I think that you should need badly the money(the pool isn't in a great shape), personally I don't like the publisher of your forthcoming book , and I hate their Bible Series .
Apart from that what will be intended level of audience of the book? Beginner/Intermediate?
Now concerning your Inside C#, 2nd, I don't have any doubt that it rocks, although, for money constraints, I will only buy your book on the next 3 months (very optimistic way, by the end of this month)  , my company insists in delaying my bonus payment (2 salaries) that I and my fellow colleagues have right
Cheers,
Joao Vaz
Frustrated TCL programmer,good c++ programmer wannabe
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Joao Vaz wrote:
To be totally honest with you ,IMHO I think that you should need badly the money(the pool isn't in a great shape), personally I don't like the publisher of your forthcoming book , and I hate their Bible Series
That's cool. However, I think if you look at my MFC book, you'll definitely like it. It's really a labour of love at this point. You see, this was the first book I was ever a part of. The book was never strong overall and so I always wanted to redo it by myself. I've almost completely rewritten it and it is much stronger now. There are a couple of chapters still are still held over from the other author, but 95% of this 1300 page book is solid.
Joao Vaz wrote:
Apart from that what will be intended level of audience of the book? Beginner/Intermediate?
The book can be used by beginners as I do have some beginner level chapters to start the text. However, you can easily skip over those to get to the meaty stuff. For example, there's some really cool stuff on controls, dialogs, COM/ATL (9 chapters), database access, DLLs, COM+, etc. I hope I don't sound immodest here, but my book answers about 50% of the questions I've seen on this board and I would definitely compare it to any other MFC book (including Prosise's) in terms of completeness. (By the way, note that I know Jeff personally and mean that with a great deal of respect for his work.)
Joao Vaz wrote:
I will only buy your book on the next 3 months
No problem. I'll need sales then too 
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Tom Archer wrote:
It's really a labour of love at this point
It isn't very difficult for you, you are a complet programmer freak 
Tom Archer wrote:
but 95% of this 1300 page book is solid.
 , a trully effort without a doubt and synonym of endless coding and writing nights ...
Tom Archer wrote:
but my book answers about 50% of the questions I've seen on this board
It's better that it succeds , with 1300 pags ! Serioulsly ,if it answers 50% then is a certainly a good book .
Tom Archer wrote:
I would definitely compare it to any other MFC book (including Prosise's) in terms of completeness
Now that's enough !!!! (conspiracy theory) You certainly want your name immortalized as great programming author , first with Inside C# , then with VC++ .Net Bible, then , who knows MC++ ? Shame on you , you bad boy ! You are respected more than enough by your peers, MFC and C# programmers , and you want more !!!!! I caught you, you want to say I'm the king of the
world !!! I'll defend the CPians with all my ... scratching ... but I'm corruptible ... if you offer me your 2nd of Inside C# with a signed autograph, then I'll forget and let you do what your evil mind planned .
Tom Archer wrote:
No problem. I'll need sales then too
Every penny is welcome 
Cheers,
Joao Vaz
Frustrated TCL programmer,good c++ programmer wannabe
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Joao Vaz wrote:
It isn't very difficult for you, you are a complet programmer freak
Very true It's so cool for our jobs to also be our hobbies.
Joao Vaz wrote:
a trully effort without a doubt and synonym of endless coding and writing nights
You got the endless night bit, right. I am so glad to be done. It's been fun, but it's time to move on to another project.
Joao Vaz wrote:
Now that's enough !!!! (conspiracy theory) You certainly want your name immortalized as great programming author , first with Inside C# , then with VC++ .Net Bible, then , who knows MC++ ? ...you want to say I'm the king of the
world !!!
I guy's gotta have a plan
Joao Vaz wrote:
I'll defend the CPians with all my ... scratching ... but I'm corruptible ... if you offer me your 2nd of Inside C# with a signed autograph, then I'll forget and let you do what your evil mind planned
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Er....remember when I recommended that you not leave yourself so open
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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kyledunn wrote:
Tom Archer shared this answer with me so
When and where?
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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Answered in your other query for same
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Tom Archer wrote:
Answered in your other query for same
Thanks. I saw it.
In the confuision I forgot my original reason.
You told him to use GetBuffer, but I think you didnt tell him about RelkeaseBuffer
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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Call ReleaseBuffer is not necessary in this context.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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I emailed Tom directly. He responded shortly before I posted his help here.
Kyle
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Convert first to LPCTSTR then maybe LPSTR then to LPVOID. These are all pointers, CString isn't so you need to convert to a pointer first. The internal data structure of a cstring object is an LPCTSTR pointer; you acess it directly by calling GetBuffer(int nmax),but you also have to call ReleaseBuffer() after .
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When i construct a query containng the query which conatins either the single quotes or double quotes then the query crashes . Can anyone suggest the solution
Samir
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Samir Sood wrote:
When i construct a query containng the query which conatins either the single quotes or double quotes then the query crashes . Can anyone suggest the solution
For each quote you have in a string, add an extra quote.
Thus if you want to insert a string such as "John's Bakers" into a table, insert it as "John''s Bakers" and all will be well
Nish
Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :-
http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/
Feel free to make your comments.
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But what if string contains the double quotes as part of it
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As Nish said, you need to double up on the quotes. For example, Access chokes on quotes in a string value because it uses quotes as the string delimiter. Therefore, here's a function I wrote a few years ago to do what you need. It only handles single quotes, but obviously you can easily modify it for your needs.
CString FormatValidAccessString(CString const & sStringToBeFormatted)
{
CString sFormattedString;
int iStringLength = sStringToBeFormatted.GetLength();
char cChar;
for (int i = 0; i < iStringLength; i++)
{
cChar = sStringToBeFormatted.GetAt(i);
sFormattedString += cChar;
if ('\'' == cChar)
{
sFormattedString += cChar;
}
}
return sFormattedString;
}
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Or to keep it really simple...
CString cMyString = "string possibly containing chars that need to be escaped...";
cMyString.Replace("'", "''");
If I remember correctly you can even get the string quotation character from ADO (the connection object probably)
so that your code is a little bit more provider independent. It's usually " for "real" databases
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I created a combobox and put a list of data within it. Then I instantiated it and then added a selchange message.
I was trying to add a popup and some other code to the selchange but nothing I put under it ever gets executed.
I do get the new index for the item selected.
Any help would be much appriciated.
Thanks!
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Is the OnSelChange function being executed or does it not get called. If the function is being called, can you post what code you are expecting to execute.
Is the OnSelChange function in the dialog class?
Michael
Communication is the first step towards enlightenment.
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Well I went and deleted the combobox sechange and started over.
Now it seems like it is executing but the index isn't getting set. HMMM
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How to set EditBox as readonly and steel have a white backgroud ?
any ideas ?![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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While I disagree with your UI decision (it definitely goes against what users are accustomed to), you can do this by handling the OnCtlColor message. There's a few threads here about how to do that. Just search on that function name and you should find what you need.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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I believe the reference you will find helpful is by Chris Losinger, Colorizing Edit Control at CodeProject.com
This may or may not be exactly the one, but I have a ZIP that I downloaded named "ColorEdit_ColorStatic".
It tells how to change colors of foreground text and background for both edit controls and static controls (e.g. labels.)
Good luck. These helped me bring my dialogs to life!
Johnny
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anybody have any sample c/c++/asm code to read sectors from a cd, or know where i can find an example ?
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Try loading wnaspi32.dll and use that to send commands to the cd-rom. Or just look up documentation on the ASPI layer.
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