Comments by Eddy Vluggen (Top 51 by date)

Although your solution works, I have to disagree; it's a silly request, and we don't write in those locations. At all. Ever.

The only reason to request something like this, is when someone wants to HIDE his app from the user - your typical trojan-writer.

Because it doesn't; it only exists as a local variable in your constructor. Make it a private class-level variable, and you can access it.

What's the brand/printer name and model? Does it support showing a "no paper"-message if you print from Microsoft Word?

Your welcome. The only alternative is to copy it to the startup-folder. Applications don't get started randomly, they need to be run from either the user or another program.

How would the script know "when" to run? :)

Hehe, true, but there's a link to the documentation; just a matter of investing the time to read it. Good additions btw, should have enough pointers to get started :)

They'll have similar interfaces. As an example, here's the configuration manual for Avast;
http://www.web-trac.com/how-to-configure-msn-messenger-with-avast-antivirus-12-11/

The manual of Avast, explaining how to configure (among others) MSN and Miranda IM;
http://hi.baidu.com/laman2008/blog/item/0d6c8234bebfca82a61e12c6.html

Even Norton has to use this interface;
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2003082516003806

Norton being a big company, they simply checked where each (version of each) messenger saves the path to the virus-scanner, and set that upon installation of the product. That costs time, and thus money, but it makes sense for Norton to do so.

There's no common application-level API provided; the alternative is to go a level deeper into Windows, raising the complexity and the costs.

No, it's not. If you set the configuration once, WL Messenger will scan every incoming file with that particular executable.

Yes, they will have to set the path once. You might to seek where the path is stored (registry perhaps) and modify it, but these things tend to change between different versions - so there's no guarantee.

# How do we get the file passed to messenger command-line.
That depends on the messenger that you're using. For the MSN Live Messenger, sign in, go to the menu "Extra" and then select "Options". Go to the tab "File Transfer", and select the console-application that you want to use to scan incoming files. That's specifically there to allow the end-user to specify which virusscanner they want to use with their messenger.

# How can we achieve this, can you give some example or method to do this.
Create a console-application that scans each file that's being passed as a argument. Then configure the messenger to use that; each messenger-application will have it's own unique way of configuration.

# can you give some example or method to do this.
There should be someone in the antivirus-team that knows how to create a console-application.

Thanks, and you're welcome. Would love to see an article on your implementation, if you can spare the time :)

You're right - was specified even on the first line :)

Looks more like it applies to mixed 32/64 bit environments :)

I see your point; might have been a problem. Good to have a warning in advance - I mistook it for pedantry, like my own post :)

It's not a lecture on best-practices on coding, it's a valid and correct answer. Stay on-topic, please :)

Aight, well done :D

I'm just home, am not allowed to post much from work, but been following the updates. I was formulating a new post in the train, loved to see the 'I got it' - and without much help. My compliments :)

Datatables provide their own select-method;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/det4aw50.aspx

As described on that page. Is there anything unclear in the documentation?

I'd try replacing the domain-name with the local pc's name, the computer-administrator as the user, and his local password. If that works, try a normal user.

You could split it on the <li>, and add prefix each string in the resulting string-array with a number. Increment the number as you iterate over the array :)

The fact that it's allowed to interact with the desktop, doesn't mean that you're running in that desktop or with the current users' credentials.

I voted 1: Don't spam the board with several wrong ways of asking a question. And drop that monster of a MSFlexGrid like Microsoft did, install the InterOp Forms Toolkit. That will allow you to mix .NET and VB6, enjoying the best of both worlds. Then you kick out all those FlexGrids and replace them with nice and enjoyable DataGridViews. It's supported by Microsoft;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb419144

Good find! - I'm using <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/HtmlRenderer.aspx">A Professional HTML Renderer You Will Use</a>[<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/HtmlRenderer.aspx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>], since it also works on Linux (no WPF here). Bookmarked the CF-version, I'm sure it will come in handy one of these days :)

You want to hide the UI of the Twain-driver when the user starts scanning? I doubt that it'll work as intended; what do you do when the driver wants to show an errormessage like "Already in use"?

Will convert it to a string. Once he saves it to the database, it'll contain more than the specified two decimal numbers.

How are you assigning this BeginSend to the SMART-threadpool? Sounds like you're running into the maximum number of threads from the threadpool, where the application has to wait until there's a new free thread available. Also, it does cost time to start a thread, and starting threads cannot be speed up.

The service is running under a different account than the user; when the user ends it's session, the service is simply still logged in. In other words, when you logout, the service doesn't.

dtCities.DefaultView.RowFilter = "CityName 'Istanbul'";

..and how many records are in that dataset with that particular CityName? :)

How does the code of your filter look? Code would go along these lines;

view.RowFilter = "City = 'Berlin'";
view.Sort = "City DESC";

The example-project that Griff mentions is referencing libraries from .NET v1.1 - install that framework and it'll work. (I ran the project on my own PC right now to confirm that)

Alternatively, you can upgrade the project to a more recent framework.