C#

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

BTW, if I use ShowDialog() to display it, calling Form.Close() does not dismiss the form (but calling Close() does work when I use Form.Show()).

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;
using System.Threading;


namespace DownloadablePlayer
{
	public partial class vPopcornPlayer : Form
	{
		BackgroundWorker m_splashWorker = new BackgroundWorker();

		//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Shows the splash screen while the program initializes itself.
		/// </summary>
		private void ShowSplashScreen()
		{
			m_splashWorker.WorkerReportsProgress = false;
			m_splashWorker.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
			m_splashWorker.DoWork += new System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventHandler(splashWorker_DoWork);
			m_splashWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
		}

		//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Closes/disposes the splash screen.
		/// </summary>
		private void HideSplashScreen()
		{
			if (m_splashWorker.IsBusy)
			{
				m_splashWorker.CancelAsync();
				// give the worker a chance to stop
				Thread.Sleep(500);
			}
		}

		//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		private void splashWorker_DoWork(object sender,DoWorkEventArgs e)
		{
			BackgroundWorker thisWorker = sender as BackgroundWorker;

			SplashPanel2 splashPanel = new SplashPanel2();
			splashPanel.Show();

			while (!thisWorker.CancellationPending)
			{
				Thread.Sleep(500);
			}

			splashPanel.Close();
			splashPanel.Dispose();
		}

	}
}

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

I hate .Net

// Connection & DataAdapter initialization code should go here
// ...

OleDbCommand insertCommand = connection.CreateCommand();
insertCommand.CommandText = "Insert Into Table(Col1, Col2, Col3) Values (?, ?, ?)";
dataAdapter.InsertCommand = insertCommand;

// ...

// Opens the Application event log.
EventLog eventLog = new EventLog("Application");
// Iterate through the entries in the opened event log.
foreach (EventLogEntry entry in eventLog.Entries)
 Console.WriteLine(entry.Message);

// Declare this at the class member space
[DllImport("advapi32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr OpenEventLog(string lpUNCServerName, string lpSourceName);
[DllImport("advapi32.dll")]
static extern bool BackupEventLog(IntPtr hEventLog, string backupFile);

// Somewhere in your code, call the above two declarations...
// NOTE: Replace "localhost" with the machine name you need to back up.
//       Replace "Application" with the log you are trying to back up.
//       The saved file is an EVT file.
BackupEventLog(OpenEventLog("localhost", "Application"), @"C:\TEMP\EVENTLOG.EVT");