Re: CPC price lookup program

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Stephen,

a quick google gave me this microsoft site, perhaps worth a look?

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?displayLang=en&id=23734
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Nice use of Regex's in the source by the way :d, i hate regex with a
passion.
On Mon 05/09/11 9:53 AM , Stephen McGarry stephen@xxxxxxx
sent:
I have had reports of the database not opening, so I will recode to
use a flat file on an ftp share on my website so it
can be updated by anyone using the program. I will repost when this
is done.
Stephen
On 04/09/11 10:10, Stephen McGarry wrote:
> Found a bug, fixed and updated zips @ 10:09!
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> Stephen
>
> On 04/09/11 09:55, Stephen McGarry wrote:
>> I like CPC.co.uk in many ways, great range and reasonable
prices... but its finding the best price for a product when
>> you are searching the website and not looking at a brochure (and
is this brochures price the best?). The fact that you
>> cant find the best price directly from the website has annoyed me
for years (many years ago you could search with * on
>> the end!), so I decided to build a simple program to do the
looking up for me.
>> So if like me you are annoyed by this you can download the
program from. [2] Put
>> the .exe anywhere and the database in your 'My documents'.
>> When you browse to a product page you can press the 'Check
Prices' Button to lookup all the current brochures as listed
>> in the datagrid on the right. I'm afraid you will need to update
the database manually when new brochures are printed (
>> watch out some brochures have more than one extension code).
>>
>> The program is very basic (it's years since I have done windows
programming) and you are welcome to adapt it (and send
>> me the update!).
>>
>> HTH
>> Stephen
>> P.S. Source is available from
>>
>>
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