Member 9610-Nov-04 12:15

10-Nov-04 12:15

I want Microsoft to alter the .net framework in such a way as to provide at least minimal protection for software developer's intellectual property and or licensing.

They designed just about the entire .net framework from the ground up to provide protection for users and didn't think to spend even 2 seconds worrying about the developers they are trying to convince to use it.

I know some of you are going to say "Well what can they do, it's an intermediate language" I know that, but the point is that *they* wrote it and they have many big brains on staff that could have considered the developers and *their* rights but I don't think they did for even a second.

The way it is now, every .net app is an "open source" app, whether you wanted it to be or not. You have essentially zero protection of your software and their only apparent solution is obfuscation which still makes cracking a license scheme a matter of a day instead of minutes.

At least in the Win32 days a certain level of knowledge was required to crack a skillfully written license protection scheme. You could be confident if you were compromised it was by experts, not by any moron with a two week knowledge of .net and a freely downloaded utility from the internet.

(No, I'm not ranting because we were cracked, I'm ranting in anticipation of having to devise some sort of license scheme for a very large .net application)

Microsoft have the advantage of course of controlling windows itself so if they release .net based apps in future they can probably work some protection for them right into the O.S. if need be. I'll be curious to see what they do.

Anyone with me?
Anyone know where to more effectively post this rant?
Am I dreaming that anything will ever get done?

Re: Anyone want to help start a movement...

Steven Campbell11-Nov-04 15:08

Steven Campbell

11-Nov-04 15:08

Doesn't .NET already have some licensing framework?

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Re: Anyone want to help start a movement...

Member 9611-Nov-04 16:44

Member 96

11-Nov-04 16:44

For components it has some rudimentary bits you have to fill in. In terms of license protection it has absolutely nothing of consequence.

XML Serialization

colin mcadam10-Nov-04 8:33

colin mcadam

10-Nov-04 8:33

I am looking for a good article about the cost of using XML and the resultant Serialization that is required - compared to using binary representation

Can anybody help?

[Flags()] and Property window

Palladino10-Nov-04 8:03

Palladino

10-Nov-04 8:03

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but I sought plenty and I didn't get to find. Imagine that there is an enumeration as the one that proceeds:

[Flags ()]  
public enum AnyOptions  
{  
	Option1 = 1,  
	Option2 = 2,  
	Option3 = 4  
}

Now there is a property in a specialization of System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

public class MyCustomTextBox: System.Windows.Forms.TextBox  
{  
	private AnyOptions options = AnyOptions.Option1;  
  
	[Browsable(true)] //this is the point!!  
	public AnyOptions Options  
	{  
		get {return this.options;}  
		set {this.options = value;}  
	}  
}

Question:

As I do for this property to have a "normal" behavior in the properties window. I imagine that it is some editor type, I don´t know.

Thanks in advance,

Marcelo Palladino
Brazil

Security problem

fridtjof10-Nov-04 8:02

fridtjof

10-Nov-04 8:02

Hi,

i'm a .NET newbie and hope someone can help me. I try to build something like an applet (Java) with C# and .NET. I've been told this can be done by a windows forms control assembly embedded in a html page via the well known <object> tag. Indeed,
everything works fine except the control's database access to a local database. Here i get the exception "SQLClientPermission denied". I'm sure the problem lies in the CLR access policies for the code of the embedded control (coming from the intranet zone). Can anyone tell me how to grant this SQLClientPermission to the code of my control?

Thanks for your help,
Fridtjof

Threading(Monitor) Problem

waiwai0910-Nov-04 3:20

waiwai09

10-Nov-04 3:20

In .NET Compact Framework, System.Threading.Monitor.Wait(Object obj) and
System.Threading.Monitor.Pulse(Object obj) are not available. Does anyone know to use these functions or replace by other functions in .NET Compact Framework?
Really Thanks a lot!!!!!

problem in subdomin configuration using IIS

memohsin19-Nov-04 23:24

memohsin1

9-Nov-04 23:24

well, friends i hav a problem to run a subdomain for a domain name on 1 IP address. for example I want that my site can be access to the user as other sites does like mail.yahoo.com or forum.yahoo.com.
I am waiting for your response plz help me to get rid out of this prob as soon as possible.

thanks.

Code Converter from "C++" to "C#"

Ahmed Kamal Aly9-Nov-04 22:33

Ahmed Kamal Aly

9-Nov-04 22:33

Hi All,
I need a tool/program to convert my Code From C++ To C#.
Please send me if you know anything to ahmed_el_sherif@hotmail.com or ahmed.elsherif@eds.com

Thnaks in advance

Re: Code Converter from "C++" to "C#"

tom_dx10-Nov-04 12:40

tom_dx

10-Nov-04 12:40

I doubt there is such things, maybe a c++ to c++.net or older c# to newer c#

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new to .net MFC question

Anonymous9-Nov-04 16:51

Anonymous

9-Nov-04 16:51

hi i have just migrated over to .net i converted a previous MFC applications of mine
however there is one thing i cannot find/figure out and that is how to use the class wizard to modify the classes i have already made for my dialogs. i figured out how to create new classes for dialogs and variables but not how to modify the existing ones via the popup menu on the dialog
can someone please tell me how to modify my existing classes via the wizards?

Re: new to .net MFC question

tom_dx10-Nov-04 12:46

tom_dx

10-Nov-04 12:46

is there even a class wizard? i remember i never used that when i used mfc anyways, learn how to make classes by yourself, very helpful Smile | :)

are you using c#[^] or c++.net[^]?

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Re: new to .net MFC question

tom_dx10-Nov-04 12:47

tom_dx

10-Nov-04 12:47

remember http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/[^] is your friend!!!;P Big Grin | :-D

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Deploument of Com Interop

skrishnasarma9-Nov-04 1:34

skrishnasarma

9-Nov-04 1:34

Hi all

I have developed a com interop application in C#, its output is .dll.
It is working fine in the workstation (windows XP)

Now I wand manually deploy the same DLL in windows 2003 server, the server already has .net Framework
Can any one tell me how to deplay the com interop DLL?

More over I am integrating the C# DLL with a VC++ (Version 6) Client, the client will read the CLSID from the registry and create the instance of the .net component.In this case can any one guide me that how to deploy the interop component?

Thanks

Calling functions from different Forms

Steve698-Nov-04 23:03

Steve69

8-Nov-04 23:03

Hi,

I know i have set this up wrong and am looking for a way to correct it.

I have a main form which contains all the functions/methods for my application. I am now however using pop up forms which change the contents of variables on the main form. I can pass variables betweem the forms using Property Get and Set.

I was wondering can i access methods from the main form in the pop up forms? I keep getting a "Reference to a non shared member requires an object reference" exception when i try and call them even though they are public

Any help much appreciated

Steve69

Re: Calling functions from different Forms

Colin Angus Mackay12-Nov-04 9:45

Colin Angus Mackay

12-Nov-04 9:45

Steve69 wrote:
I have a main form which contains all the functions/methods for my application.

Eek! | :eek:

Well, overlooking that design flaw....

Steve69 wrote:
I keep getting a "Reference to a non shared member requires an object reference" exception when i try and call them even though they are public

It isn't the fact that it is public that is stopping you. It is the fact that the property can return different values for different instances of the form (or any class for that matter). So, it need to know which instance - even if there is only one instance in the application.

If you need a property to get/set the same value regardless of which particular instance of a class you are using then you need to declare it as static (or Shared in VB.NET)

Do you want to know more?

Visual studio .net 2002 or 2003 for windows me

kelcel8-Nov-04 11:06

kelcel

8-Nov-04 11:06

Does anyone knows how to install visual studio 2002 or 2003 in windows me or 98? Confused | :confused:

I want to install it, and i can´t use windows xp on my machine cause it is too advanced for windows xp Cry | :((

, so I have to use windoes me but since microsoft removed the windows me support I am lost right now,

Thank you for your time.

Hmmm | :|

Re: Visual studio .net 2002 or 2003 for windows me

Charlie Williams8-Nov-04 11:30

Charlie Williams

8-Nov-04 11:30

Unfortunately, VS.NET 2002[^] and VS.NET 2003[^] both require Windows 2000 or later. The resulting executables can be run on Windows 98 and ME, however.

Charlie

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New Component in Toolbox (MS-VS)

kofler5-Nov-04 5:08

kofler

5-Nov-04 5:08

Hello.
I want to use the ColourButton for the .net compact framework from Jon Nethercott
(http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/PocketPCColourBtn.asp). The button itself works fine, but how can I add it to the toolbox? I click with the right mouse button on the toolbox, then “add element”. The Element “Colour Button” is added, but it’s disabled. What can I do?
Thanks very much
Stefan
(Austria)

.NET Setup and Deployment project registry bug.

Shail_Srivastav5-Nov-04 2:32

Shail_Srivastav

5-Nov-04 2:32

I created a setup project for my comapny using .NET Setup and Deployment project. I want to change the registry enviroment variables for the current user, which I easily add in their registry editor. When I install the setup in fresh computer, its instals ok and shows the updated environment variables (Right click on my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> Environment variables) but they did not work. If i open the dos window (cmd.exe), and run "set", its did not display the updated environment. Even reboot didn't fix it. I have to manully edit those value in order to take effect, which is not acceptable at user point.

It seems like very basic feature to me, when you deploy the application, you want to change the environemnt variables. Is this a knows bug or I am missing something.

Please help me..

Shail Srivastav
shailsrivastav@hotmail.com
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Finding the ideal height for a label

Ægidius Ahenobarbus4-Nov-04 22:03

Ægidius Ahenobarbus

4-Nov-04 22:03

Given a required width is there any way to find the ideal height of a label? (IE so all the text is displayed)

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Re: Finding the ideal height for a label

satya chhikara22-Nov-04 23:37

satya chhikara

22-Nov-04 23:37

Label in .net are auto resizable by default . It will sized automaticlly according to string whiech you are going to assign it .
You don't care about it

Re: Finding the ideal height for a label

Ægidius Ahenobarbus23-Nov-04 9:06

Ægidius Ahenobarbus

23-Nov-04 9:06

Thanks for your reply satya. If tried setting autosize to true for a label but it just autosizes the width, leaving the height at one character. I wanted to autosize the height. Ie fix the width and make the height adjust for multiple lines with the words wrapping.

I did find a way of doing it eventually I'll post it when I've had a look at my development PC.

Unless I'm missing something and you can use autosize while fixing the width.....

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Re: Finding the ideal height for a label

satya chhikara23-Nov-04 23:07

satya chhikara

23-Nov-04 23:07

If you want to use multilpe lines , You can use Height property of label but when you write text in that it will again show one line . Now if you want to show the text in whole label . First go into font properites of label and set size according to your choice .

PropertySheets

Member 36334-Nov-04 2:30

Member 3633

4-Nov-04 2:30

In MFC there are PropertySheets e.g. to display possible app options. In C# and .NET are there good examples for it ?
Thanx - Ralf

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