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you can try this
string s = new managementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceID=\"c:\"".Properties["VolumeSerialNumber"].Value.ToString()
need to import system.management class
you can google for better options
It is Good to be Important but!
it is more Important to be Good
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Thanks i'll try that, ahh, life is good.
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Oh yeah? That Volume Serial Number is the same between machines if the machine was cloned. Which is a very common technique of deploying lots of machines in mass quantities. Every machine will have the same VSN as the source machine it was cloned from.
I've even a utility, a while back, that let you set the VSN to any number you wanted. So, even if you reformatted the hard drive and got a different VSN, you could always reset it to something else.
Basically, there is no one piece of information that is guaranteed unique from machine to machine in every environment. Even the Machine SID can be the same as another machine (again, if cloned!), if it's not in a domain environment.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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As Dave already said, the volume serial number can be easily changed by software because it is just a identifier for the partition and not connected to the physical drive.
There is no truly unique ID, but a good starting point is the MAC address of the network adapter - only few network cards support changing it by software, and you cannot have to machines with the same MAC on a network.
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Yeah. What about processor id?
Hmm, infact, if i just use weird stuff to identify the machine, they won't know what to change. Haha.
Oh and this isn't for software activation or anything, its for this online thing, when somebody gets banned, i need them to STAY banned.
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Hmmm, then what about different users utilizing the same computer? And if someone gets banned, can't they simply switch machines to regain access?
Is this per-machine scheme really the best idea?
Regards,
mav
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Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...
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i am working with c# 2005 windows application.i referenced COM components and i need to debug the com components with .net
Can u please let me know quickly as i am unable to make a step where ia m getting error.
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You cannot debug COM componenets in .NET. If you really want to debug, then you need to debug it in unmanaged environment. Say by using visual interdev and visual basic IDE.
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 The error message is below:
Error 4 The type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Texture' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D\1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll' and 'c:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\Microsoft.DirectX\2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.DirectX.dll' E:\CodeProject\SpinningNumbersClock\SpinningNumber.cs 29 18 SpinningNumbersClock
I do not know the reason!
Can you help me ?
Thanks a lot!!
bestyan 2006/10/13 ,from Jiang Su ,China
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in your references add remove microsoft.directx
than add reference of microsoft.directx where version is not 2.0
OR
remove microsoft.directx.direct3d from your references
this error come because directx 2.0 have directx , directx.direct3d, directx.direct3dx, are included in same file
so you have a choice to either remove latest directx or the older other references
It is Good to be Important but!
it is more Important to be Good
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Hi all,
Can anybody help me in creating a setup for my project that i have coded.
Please if there is any replies let it be a full path solution.
Lead me all the way till i see the setup file.
Thanks in advance,
jmail abou khalil
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jamil abou khalil wrote: Lead me all the way till i see the setup file.
What documentation have you read on the subject? and what part did you get stuck on?
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I am reading some documents.
But i didn't figure out how to make the setup file functional.
I am creating a setup file but it seems it is been created in a wronge way cause it is not working
jamil abou khalil
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What exactly doesn't work?
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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In the solution explorer select your project and than add a new setproject to it.
now u wll see some changes in solution explorer , a set project is attatched wuith your project in the solution explorer ,,,
now right click on setup project and add project primary out put to your project ,,,
now again right click on ur setup project and click on add custom function ,,
add custom function ,,, into your project output,,,now
select your project selct build menu, select configuration manager ,
and select release and check both project and your setup project or build,,,
now build your project ,,,
after builiding if it is compiled successfully ,,
now again right click on ur project and click on install
ok bye
hello
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Hi all,
I'm having a horrible time trying to get text in opengl. I'm using the simpleOpenGlControl that comes with the TAO package and for some reason that means I cannot use the glutBitmapCharacter or glutBitmapString functions. I already posted on this, but I take it no one else has had the same problem as I had no replies.
Does anyone know of a way to eaisily render fonts in opengl? I've scoured the web and cannot find anything that works. There are various pieces of code out there, but none of them actually work. The closest I've come is the NeHe & Redbook tutorials, but I just cannot get my head around them. This is really driving me nuts. Please help.
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It appears that the problem seems to be with Tao.FreeGlut and the simpleOpenGlControl. Whenever any function is called from Glut, the applcation crashes. Does anyone else know of this issue?
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Hi, is there a way to make a form unclickable?
The idea is that when I show a form(Form2), I wont be able to click on another form (Form1)..
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just call the showDialog() method of the form instead of show().
Thanks & Regards,
Pramod
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year"
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Thank you very much!!  You're a genius more than once this year.
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I'm trying hard to create a way to automate user administration on sharepoint and I got around to produce the following.
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sharepoint/klantgegevens/" + groupname);
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
SPMember member = null;
SPUser user = null;
bool found = false;
found = SharepointGroupExists(groupname);
for (int index = 0; index < web.Users.Count; index++)
{
if (web.Users[index].IsSiteAdmin)
{
member = web.Users[index];
user = web.Users[index];
break;
}
}
if (!found)
{
web.SiteGroups.Add(groupname,member, user, "");
}
But there's an exception coming from the web.SiteGroups.Add(..); call. It says Value does not fall in the expected range. Can anybody tell me where I could find more information on this call, especially some information on the exceptions it can throw.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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Problem solved for now. Hardcoded the Administrator user as the default user instead of determining it dynamically.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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dear programmers
how add context help by pressing F1 key
and how how to design the window. help required.
sikandar
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Take a look at the HelpProvider component.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de
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Hi
How to get a avi resource to resource file(.resX)
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