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So long as you use it with consenting adults, behind closed doors - and no-one is getting hurt...

Although obviously VS2005 will make you more attractive, ensure you get paid more, make you lose weight and cause your hair to grow back.

Beer28 wrote:

I wish rioters could burn every city down this year, we'd turn into vagabond globetrotters.

Be very careful what you wish for.

Seriously though - there's a good reason for actually going to areas considered "troubled". Which is to diminish the impact that the problems (whatever they are) have - especially in poorer countries - of which France definitely isn't one.

The violence is deplorable - but you shouldn't be put off visiting Paris - it's probably no more violent than NY, London, Vegas or any other such city is on a normal day.

I know that Konfabulator and the like exists - but nothing out there (that I know of) would be able to add a "Display this as Note" type option to Outlook itself -

i.e: I'm looking at my tasks list and I spot one that I'm likely to forget; I right click and select Display as Note and it's on the desktop reminding me. Then - when I've done it I can open the Note, and set the task to be complete as per normal, likewise with e-mails etc..

Well, only slightly mad.

I've been a long time fan of sticky-note type programs, and I'm a user of Outlook (which has it's own notes feature, which ain't great).

I'd really like to see notes integrated in a slightly different way into Outlook such that I could post e-mails and tasks from outlook up to the desktop as sticky notes - so I don't forget to deal with them.

Just an idea.

Your best bet would be to use COM.

There a couple of steps - simply select the "Register for COM Interop" option in the Build Configuration menu - that should do it for development. (For distribution you can select Register For COM in the .NET Setup project - or use RegAsm to register the library.)

The only problem with this is that by default it uses late binding. (This is beyond much of my knowledge now.) - which essentially means you can't see the functions through intellisense - or the object viewer. But they'll all be there.

You can get around this by implementing an interface on the class - and that interface will be exposed properly through COM. Or you can apply the [ClassInterface] attribute to the class in the .NET code which automatically generates an interface.

Hope that helps.

Massif

Wrox have plenty to say about almost all programming topics. I've used XSLT 2nd edition. It covers almost all XSLT theory and use - although there doesn't appear to be a mention of VB.

Aside from that it'll cover pretty much everything you might want to know.