Bilge Kaan wrote: ...it crashes. Exception, assertion, or some other anomaly? "Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

To create an ODBC data source. 1.You might create a file DSN in designated directory. It's a ".ini" like text file. You can examine it for an analogy. Default directory is "Program Files\Common Files\ODBC\Data Sources". 2.You might create registry keys for User or System DSNs, respectively under the keys below. You can also examine them. HKCU\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI HKLM\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI BTW, I'm speaking mostly for XP OS because the others may somewhat differ. Additionally, you don't have to create any kind of DSN, you can open your connection on the fly in your code by a proper connection string like below. "DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=%s;DATABASE=%s;UID=%s;PWD=%s" You may need to use "DRIVER=SQL Native Client" for 2008. You can also execute DDL scripts to create your schema using CDatabase::ExecuteSQL(). To do this, you can open your database connection using string below with an administrator user/password. "DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=%s;DATABASE=master;UID=sa;PWD=%s"

Have you seen this or this? "Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

Bilge Kaan wrote: I see that package does some additional configurations on the system(not just a dll coppy ). Yeah, its the latest Microsoft answer to one of the oldest known shared object problems aptly named DLL Hell[^] the configuration stuff your seeing is called Side-by-side Assemblies[^] Best Wishes, -David Delaune

Thanks a lot Superman.It is clean and easy solution.

In addition to GetWindowText(), you can also send the control a EM_STREAMOUT message, or if you are using MFC, call the StreamOut() method. "Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Only one; look up QWidget which is a cross platform library for creating applications. INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra

My OS is win98 (develop PCs are using win98 for us). I loaded a dos window, whose title is "MS-DOS Prompt" I tested HWND hwnd = ::FindWindow("ConsoleWindowClass","MS-DOS Prompt"); but return value (hwnd) is zero. what is wrong? did u test your code on win98 or other OS (your users may use different OSs)? A special image tool for C++ programmers, don't miss it! The world unique Software Label Maker is here for you and me ... A nice hyper tool for optimizing your MS html-help contents.

Probably the window class for custom control is not registered before DoModal call. Are you trying to call RegisterClass in OnInitDialog? Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com Alika masiaka!

No. The control will be clipped by the dialog. You can set it to whatever size you like, but only the part inside the dialog will be visible. Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"