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i just tried it and it worked fine : PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("C:\7.ico") you must have the exact path of the image in there or it will error. switch(twinsOnWay) { case ("twins on the way"): MessageBox.Show("for mr and mrs dynamic","twins on the way"); break;

Thanks for that. I'll experiment at home before suggesting to the student but it sounds as though this might work. I'm not aware of an upper limit for class objects. Thanks again, Alan ...

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Actually, there is a class. There all located within the System.Web.Mail Namespace. Look it over, and if you still can't understand how to use them, feel free to email me Nick Seng (the programmer formerly known as Notorious SMC) God, I pity me! - Phoncible P. Bone

To launch an external app try WshShell.Run or WshShell.Exec and supply it with the exact same command line that you put into the Run key. You can find more info on the WshShell.Run command here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsmthrun.asp RageInTheMachine9532

We need alot more information on what you want to do and how the two machines are connected! Are they connected over some type of network or serial port or some custom A/D card, or what? RageInTheMachine9532

Well thanks for the idea Pablo75, but the 'Write' statement added a double quote at the beginning and again at the end of the file. Essentially the whole file was enclosed in one set of double-quotes. And by the way, for anybody else whose reading this thread as well, I've had success when opening the file in binary mode and using the 'Put' function EXCEPT when I am replacing an existing (text) file with a string that is shorter. In those cases, opening the file in binary does not reset the length of the file, so the file ends up being my new string followed by the old contents of the file that existed beyond the length of the new string. Can I open an existing file in binary and somehow reset the file length? discarding the old contents entirely? thanks, nebbish Smart, Sexy, Sane. Pick two.

VB dlls don't have "exports" in the standard dll sense. Instead you use CoCreateInstance to instantiate them and use the ActiveX mechanism with them. '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd