1. When my app is running a large process it freezes up the app so that you can't move it or minimize it, etc. until the process is done. How do you avoid this. I tried threads and that didn't seem to do it, is there a function to the give control back to the app like repaint or something 2) I have a paragraph of text that I need to escape chr(10) and chr(13) characters from. How would you do this using the string.replace function? Thanks in advance, sorry for the lame questions, still learning. -Brent

Hi Joe, Yea, that's exactly what I ended up doing. I defined variables in my XML file with @FirstName@ @LastName@ etc. and then just look for those values once I import the XML....works pretty damn nicely. Like you said, probably a better way, but I'm only dealing with about 6 variables at any one given time so it works :) Thanks for the response though!! -Brent

Ok, I'll try to make this as short as possible. I have wrote a C# app that creates static HTML pages. One of the pieces for each page is obviously the keyword meta tags. To thicken the plot, this same program generates the same pages for different sites. But different keywords for each site. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have an external XML file that basically "defines" what the keywords are for each site. My question is this, what if I want to change say the Persons name for each of my pages, but using the same keywords. Example: Visit Bob Smith's Home Page My Application is going to have the name Bob Smith defined, so basically when I import my XML it needs to have a place for a variable. So the XML file should read Example "Visit" + theName + " Home Page". So when it comes into my app + theName + get's defined as Bob Smith's. Obviously it doesn't work this way and I need it to. Any ideas. Hope I haven't confused the hell out of everyone :) -Brent