Nice job!    Thanks again 

Version 0.95 doesn't really introduce any new functionality, so far as users would notice, but it's important in that it isolates what can be a moderately intensive foreach-loop (that retrieves and processes emails) into its own BackgroundWorker thread, so that the UI doesn't become "choppy"/unresponsive.

I'm also thankful to fodder and Ath for their help in another thread with some InnoSetup questions I had.  I'm learning a lot by working on this project, and that's what it's all about!

Version 0.96 will examine all downloaded attachments (which are the excuse files that the program's users have emailed to me), and will process them.  This will involve determining:

• the overall number of excuse files downloaded
• the total number of program users who have sent excuse files as email attachments
• how many total excuse files each individual program user has sent
• the total number of times each individual has sent an email

... that kind of stuff.  I'll use these excuse files to programmatically build a webpage and upload to my website, for everyone to enjoy.

I also plan to make the text boxes for "Excuse" and "Result" multiline-capable, so that those that need to type a bit more can do so.

The OP has been edited to include links to screencasts demonstrating a few program features.  As I've stated in a previous post, I conceived "N.A.N.Y Excuse Manager" in a rather tongue-in-cheek fashion.  I don't expect very many DC members will actually use it.  But it's been a good programming workout for me, and has, in the process, provided me with a foundation upon which I believe I'll be able to build a Play-By-Email game.

Among the new areas I got into in this endeavor, I was able to get my mind around the .NET backgroundWorker object, which can run lengthy processes on a separate thread (so as not to lock-up the UI), while still updating the UI with progress updates.  I also got my hands dirty fooling with a FileSystemWatcher object.  It prevents any non-excuse file from being placed in the Excuses folder.  To be honest, it does this on the basis of filename extension.  It doesn't really scrutinize files at the binary level (although that wouldn't be difficult to code).

Anyway, I've thought of several ways that I should abstract this project's code a bit, so that it could be repurposed in a number of interesting ways.

If anyone thinks they could make use of the code's utility, I can share the code.

Go do it the fancy way and use layered windows instead. UpdateLayeredWindow is the epic function you want. It's a pain to use, but you can get really pretty results with it. smiley

@worstje:  I wound up rolling-my-own (uncomment the line assigning an image to splash.BackgroundImage; of course, you have to embed an image resource in your application, first):

        public Form1() {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
        }
        

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
            
            Form splash = new Form();
            splash.Size = this.Size;
            splash.StartPosition = this.StartPosition; //same as Form1
            splash.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None;
            //splash.BackgroundImage = ExcuseManager.Properties.Resources.kyr_splash;

            this.Hide();    //hide our main form...
            splash.Show();  //...and show splash screen

            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);
            splash.Dispose(); //leaving Form1 visible
         
        }

such a strange program.. it might be interesting to see if you could put some of this code to use in a more general purpose application

I see it as a good foundational work for the following future applications

yep -- those sound really interesting and cool, and i definitely think you'll find use for those functions.  looking forward to it.

I'll Upload an excuse.

":I can\'t program.excuse.
You cannot upload that type of file. The only allowed extensions are txt,jpg,gif,mpg,png,zip,rar,7z,ahk,fbs,mov,avi,mpg,rm,exe,mid,mp3,wav,grid,opml,wmv,tgz,gz,xml,ini,alias,wma,ogg. "

Doesn't take native excuses!