You can do this by creating your own events. Have a look at my article Delegates, Events, Event Arguments, and How They Fit Together[^] Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming) 1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111

I would help but I have never used MSDE, isn't this a forerunner to sql server express? Looks like some likely responses with this search[^]

Ageesh wrote: am using vb.net + sql 20000 Well first of all, try using a database engine that isn't from the future .... lol Ok all jokes aside, You are going to have to use a custom action during the installation to determine if the database exists or if you should create it. This should get you started A Custom Action for Deploying a Visual Studio 2005 Add-in[^] As far as installing without SQL Server, thats fine but your application has to account for the lack of a SQL Server. Normally there should be a SQL Server on the network that you can connect to, you would have to get that information from the user either during installation or the first time the app is run. MSDN Context Properties[^] If at first you don't succeed ... post it on The Code Project and Pray.

ROFL (I'm from Leeds originally!) :-D Dave BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia) Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture[^] Or just google 3-tier architecture - 60000+ results. Regards David R

Google for "Autocad Automation" and you'll find a bunch of examples on how to talk to Autocad from your code. As for exactly how to get the dimensions of various objects in a drawing, that would be a question for an AutoDesk forum, not us. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

Do u need a complete col as combobox or perticular cell is like combobox