Comments by Roger Wright (Top 60 by date)

I'll second Zoltan's recommendation. MVC 4 In Action is an excellent book, well worth a read.

We have no idea what the question means. Can you clarify what the problem is, or post some code to show what you have already tried?

Reason for my vote of 5
Excellent question, well phrased and detailed enough to be meaningful.

What data are you trying to access? A remote database? A shared file? General information about another computer on the network? Techniques for accessing each are different. What have you already tried? Post the code that isn't working, and clarify what it is you seek, and we can provide better answers.

Is there a question here?
Restate your question in terms of real code and error messages, and let us know what you've already tried.

Thanks! I've spent most of the night using MSDN and VS2010 Help to find any information about accessing the contents of App.config with not one meaningful result. The second reference in your post is most helpful, and tells me where to look for more! My '5' to you.

I may give it a try, Henry, but the method I'm using works fine across the network. I just couldn't figure out a way to get the returned table to display. A listbox would be far simpler than the DataGridView, but the book I have for reference is rather limited. Thanks!

This is a completely meaningless collection of words - not even a question. Try this:
State what you want to do.
Tell us what part of it doesn't work, or what part you don't know how to do.
Post a bit of the code you've tried so that we can make suggestions.

Good clarification, John. A lot of people don't understand SMTP relaying, and why it's routinely blocked by resposible ISPs.

Good call!

Excellent resources! I have the Applied Cryptography book ( handed to me by Bruce himself ) and re-read it often. It's still tough to follow all the discrete math, but it's the best presentation I've seen yet.

Exactly correct. COM ports are system devices, not for users to change. If, for some reason, another name is required for an app, the underlying COM port can be encapsulated by a user object.

Just for my education, what did you change the protocol to? What worked? Was it in the RCON code, or yours?

It failed:
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException was unhandled
Message="An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
Source="System"
ErrorCode=10054
NativeErrorCode=10054

It looks like the remote host doesn't like the password, or remote connections in general.

I think you've nailed it; that is the weirdest if construct I've ever seen. If the button FName is selected, SearchVal will be NName, otherwise it will be either undefined or an empty string. The message boxes won't be much better, as the OP misspelled 'Match' in the first one, and displays essentially the same message in both - "try again." Strange...

It would be helpful to know what a "gold parser" is, and what a calitha engine runs on. I've used a pan and riffles to parse my gold, but I don't think that's particularly helpful to you. Please rewrite yor question using terms that are in general use, rather than refering to products no one has ever heard of... There's no way to tell what you're asking here.

I wish it was in C#, but yes, it helps. Thanks!

No, I don't know where to change it in an existing project; the only time I see it is when I create a new project. Try creating a new empty project based on .Net 3.5, copy the files to the working directory for that project, then use Add Existing... to incorporate the files into the new project. I think that will work, but I haven't tried it myself.

Thank you, Rahul, but while I might be able to add SSIS at home, we don't have it at work and probably won't be installing it. I'm the one handling this processing right now, but as soon as I can simplify the process I plan to pass it on to someone else to do, and that requires that I stick to commonly available tools that we all share. The way things work at my company, I get all the crap work that no one can figure out, I simplify it, then I get to pass it on to someone else to do, so long as it costs nothing.

Can you clarify what you mean by "collision?" Are you trying to ensure that the same car isn't counted twice, or checking to see if two cars actually hit each other?

Hehehe... Learning never stops. If I ever spend a day without learning something new I hope someone will have the courtesy to throw some dirt on me; I've died and failed to notice.

So the @ character causes the compiler to treat as literals the characters that would normally be processed as special escaped characters? Sweet! Why didn't they do that long ago?

Thanks, Abhinav! :-D

Does that mean I have to add the @ character in front of my variable, or can I just use the variable as is?

You stopped just short of posting anything useful. Modify your question, or post a comment to it that includes the 'specific error details below' and we might stand a chance of helping you. What you've posted is a generic message that could be the result of any of hundreds of errors; we need more information to assist you.

Excellent elaboration, Emilio - Thanks! I completely forgot that, using C++, you're stuck with ATL, MFC, and native Windows libraries. The .Net Framework adds a huge base of functionality that the programmer doesn't have to write from scratch. That, in fact, is my only difficulty in using C#; learning the language is a snap, but learning the Framework is a lifetime project. Thanks for the perspective...

Just a thought for you... When I started programming, I used Assembly language, and got used to using indirect addressing at that level. It's actually quite easy, but it's very easy to make a mistake in calculating address offsets and such, especially if in the course of development you change a variable type and forget to change the addressing. The pointer arithmetic required in C++ is just a high-level implementation of indirect addressing in Assembly. It might be worth your while to do a few projects in Assembly, just for practice. But I still encourage you to focus on C#; not only is it fun, it's useful for almost anything you can do in C++. Don't let the Windows limitation scare you off - the principles you learn will apply to any platform, and Windows isn't going away anytime soon. I predict that, by the time any other platform becomes viable as an effective substitute for Windows, someone will have built a version of C# to run on it. In the meantime, learn it, use it, and enjoy the learning.

I am at a complete loss to interpret the question. There isn't a single meaningful phrase in the entire post. Could you please try again, preferably with the assistance of someone who speaks (and writes) English? I'd truly love to help, but I haven't a clue where to start.

Nice code! Did you have a question? When is the assignment due?

I believe that applets run on the client, not the server, but that's way outside my experience. Your situation is interesting, though, and I'm tempted to try it myself. There used to be a service called DynamIP which allowed users to host a website from home on a dynamic IP address that did the same thing you're trying to do, and I've long wanted to duplicate that service. Try checking projects at SourceForge and CodeProject for similar projects. They might give you some helpful ideas.

Oops. From your initial question I thought you were doing this on a server you control. I suspect that you're going to find it difficult to convince any hosting service to let you run a Windows service on their machines. But a C# web application will work just fine, and your hosting provider won't object.

No, you can't. Access rights are a bit fuzzy to me; I usually learn about them after Windows refuses to do something I ask it to. It's a PITA, but the benefits are worth the hassle, I think. At the least, you'll want to create an account on the host for your app to use and assign it the rights you need. You'll need the cooperation of the systems admin for the hosting site to set that up. But that's not usually too hard; we geeks tend to stick together.

It looks like he has the port forwarding configured, if I'm interpreting the Virtual Server Address correctly in the image supplied. But his client has to access it via the WAN port IP address of the router to invoke the port forwarding function. Good call!

Reason for my vote of 5
I think it nails the problem on the head - good answer.

It's not at all clear what you're trying to accomplish here. Can you provide some more detail about what you are trying to do, and what you have tried thus far? As far as I know, your Form has full control over the WebBrowser control it contains, and can make any property read-only by simply limiting access to it. You must have something else in mind...

Reason for my vote of 5
Quite a useful tip!

Reason for my vote of 5
Nicely said!

It's still bloody wrong! To paraphrase Robert Townsend, "If you're that damned important, bring your own lunch!"

Reason for my vote of 5
Seems like an ideal solution, given the requirements stated.

Reason for my vote of 1
Answer is dead wrong; ref is used to override the default behavior.

Reason for my vote of 5
Good answer, and a good question, as it opens the door for further discussion and assistance.

Reason for my vote of 5
An obscure little item that catches most the first time, properly explained.

Reason for my vote of 5
Very clear, exact answer...

Reason for my vote of 5
Exactly...

Reason for my vote of 5
Succinct, on target, and genuinely helpful

Reason for my vote of 5
A very good question, and something I expect to need soon.

Reason for my vote of 5
Excellent ideas!

Reason for my vote of 5
Most likely solution, given the source code provided.

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Possibly the best single resource for web development.

Reason for my vote of 5
Excellent question, and one that I'd like to see answered.

Reason for my vote of 5
Clear and succinct answer!

Reason for my vote of 5
Clear, concise, and to the point. Not to mention that it recommends what should have been the poster's first action.

I didn't put them there. It's a bug I reported last night, possibly something related to using Opera for posting here. When I type it and preview it, the post looks fine, but when it appears the slashes are inserted. I suspect that Chris has reverted to VBScript again...