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From: Paul Clement on 30 Jun 2010 08:16 On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:40:46 -0400, "Kevin Provance" <k(a)p.c> wrote: � : And my point was to say that just because there are other sources of � : evil in the world, that doesn't excuse any single one of them. � : � : User data is sacred! Vendors be damned. � � Have you forgotten who you are talking to? This is the head of the .Nxt � evangelicals and a top MSFT stooge. The very collective that said "to hell � with VB6 users and their code assets" the apotheosis of user data. You'll � never convince that clown that user data is anything other than expendable. � For him or any other .Nxt die hard to say otherwise would be hypocrisy of � biblical proportion and probably get them a major slap from MSFT themselves � for straying from the core MSFT mission statement: "We own our customers and � their data, and we care about neither." Don't act so helpless Kevin. .NET can save even you. ;-) Paul ~~~~ Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
From: Mayayana on 30 Jun 2010 09:29 | : The people I know who are playing with Win8 right now tell me it's "COM | : to the core." That's all I know right now. | | What? Windows.Nxt isn't going to happen? <eg> | They're pushing it with Silverlight. Windows software in .Net was never more than a come-on, anyway. | I hope your folks are right. I *love* COM. | As you probably know from the businessinsider slides linked at Huffingtonpost, there's really not much in the "leaked" docs. I didn't see anything to indicate specifics about the design of Win8 itself. But they don't really need to change Windows itself very much in order to get to where they want to be. Microsoft have been trying to figure out for years how to sell the product and then rent its usage. The slides really don't demonstrate any new ideas at all. But they do belie the focus. They're basically wishful thinking about how nice it would be to bring the income-generating aspects of phone apps and Facebook into Windows, with something like an Ubuntu software store full of 3rd-party software that MS gets a cut of. The trick is to figure out how to charge people too much for something they don't need, while not allowing them any other options. ...This sounds like a job for Steve Jobs. :)
From: Mayayana on 30 Jun 2010 09:49 I'd never seen the JCButton before. It does seem awfully big in terms of code. It took a few seconds just to display the main form in the IDE. My button is very simple and light, but it just uses basic VB functionality -- no API drawing. It's mainly of use to people who have a knack for graphics. The trick is to create a good button face image and carefully adjust the mask colors for that image. | | > See this download for a compact class that you | >can use: | > | >http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.php5#set12 | | Very interesting set of links. Thanks for providig that. | | Also your button code doesn't crash on my system even in an exe like | the JCButton code does. So maybe your user control will work for me. | | Tony | -- | Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP | Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm | Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ | For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files | updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
From: Dee Earley on 30 Jun 2010 09:50 On 30/06/2010 04:22, Mayayana wrote: > But it's become "traditional" to do installs with > admin rights, and in Vista+ if you just use the word > "setup" in the file name of your installer it should > cause an elevation prompt where necessary. The correct way is to use an appropriate manifest which All Good Setup Programs(tm) should already do. -- Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored. Please reply to the group.)
From: Karl E. Peterson on 30 Jun 2010 12:54
Tony Toews explained on 6/29/2010 : > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:11:41 -0700, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> > wrote: > >> Inadvertant truncation. I meant what I meant, not what I said. <g> > > Ahh, ok. BTW did you notice Windows 2000 > Application Specification for Microsoft Windows 2000 for Desktop > Applications > just above > Chapter 4: Data and Settings Management > > That document might be out of date what with security lock down to > Common App Data MS did in Windows Vista. The guidelines haven't changed, as far as I know. Only the enforcement of them. <bg> Thing is, none of us noticed the problems in XP (or 2000) because we all ran as admins all the time. They only became obvious if we tried to support an inept relative, and decided to demote their login to lowly User, so they wouldn't botch things all up by installing crapware after not reading what they clicked. Well, with Vista/7, the screws are tightening, I'm afraid. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |