Thanks for the input. I'll keep that in mind if anyone else ask for a sample code. I may end up writing some code if no offers come from the face to face interviews. While I'm in Florida, I have three interviews lined up. I've had four phone interviews and had three want to go to the next step. I thought that was pretty good. I've taken some test, I'm working through recruiters since I don't know the area very well or what companies are down there. I think the thing that's helping me the most is I work for the School of Medicine and in Florida a lot of their jobs deal with the Health industry. Good luck with your hiring process. I hope you find someone that's a great fit. If you can’t have fun at work, then why go to work?

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If you have some time, do some searches for technology parks in the area. Chamber of Commerce might be able to help you out. Then, drive through them, writing down company names. just a thought Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Spreadsheet gear allowed us to replicate excel data entry to our DB, we had no use for the more advanced (the real spreadsheet capability) of the tool. Use Telerik for the silverlight grids and they are cute. [edit] support from telerik is excellent, the default answer seems to be a sample with the solution [/edit] Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

PMFBI but I can offer some thoughts as one who manages a small development team, and has used TFS and VSS for several years. We use VS2008 Team System for developing and maintaining a fairly large project (>1million lines of C# code) and VSS for maintaining 'legacy' projects, because that's where they started off. TFS brings much more than source control. On that feature alone it is far superior to VSS (I can't speak for CVS, SVN etc because I haven't used them). In my experience VSS is fine for smaller projects, and where you can ensure that only one developer at a time ever works on a file. With a big project that is often inconvenient and not easy to regulate (and why should you have to?) and TFS's far superior checkin/merge facility helps manage that relatively safely. Given the chance, of the two I would use TFS source control for any non-trivial project employing more than one developer. TFS also brings programmed testing (MSTest unit testing and we also use Selenium), test code-coverage, integrated bug and task tracking, integration with Sharepoint for project documentation control and publishing, and the biggie for me is automated builds. It took us a while to get to where we are today, but I wouldn't be without our CI and nightly build/test/document process. Several times a day and every morning I get an email confirming that all is well, or early warning that something has unexpectedly broken. It's not perfect because you can never have enough tests, but I sleep much better at night as a result. :-) That is not to say that TFS and VS20008 are without their problems. Check-in merges (and branch merges) can get confused and you have to keep your eye on the ball when you do it, but you do get the option to select individual differences if you want complete control. I have found that frequent 'gets' to keep the local copy up to date together with frequent check-ins of changes is a good way to proceed with multiple developers on the project. In other words don't let server and local code drift too far apart, to keep the risk small. The bug/task tracking facilities could be usefully improved (reporting, especially, is a bit clunky - was it designed by the office junior?). VS2008 itself struggles with largish applications and can often 'lose' the various tools such as call-stack, watch windows etc, which for no apparent reason will be blank panes. Frequent restarts of VS2008 are essential, we find, to correct this. It seems to be a memory thing, and we are at the 4Gb limit already on our workstat

But why? I am unsure about .NET 1.1 as it is very old tech.... But doesnt Container.DataItemIndex work ? :) Abhishek Sur **Don't forget to click "Good Answer" if you like this Solution. My Latest Articles-->** Simplify Code Using NDepend Basics of Bing Search API using .NET Microsoft Bing MAP using Javascript

Thanks I wasn't sure which one to ask in. Carolyn If you can’t have fun at work, then why go to work?

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Given the time constraints stick to VS 2003. Kevin

Thanks for the information. I found some code but I'm not quite understanding it. Below is the snippet I am using: Dim docName = FindWindow(vbNullString, "File Download - Security Warning") Const BM_CLICK As Integer = &H102 SendMessage(docName, BM_CLICK, 0, 0) I have the following two questions: What does the &H102 stand for? And where or how do I tell it that I want the saved button clicked? The save button does have the short cut key of Alt-S that I can send, but I don't understand where that information goes. Thank you for any assistance with this issue. If you can’t have fun at work, then why go to work?

Hi, If you have Third party COM which is developed in VB6, and you wanted to use this COM in Visual Studio then you need proxy to use Unmanged COM. In .Net there is Runtime callable wrapper (RCW) use to access any unmanaged COM into .Net platform. There is an exe (tlbimp.exe)in .net command prompt to import any unmanaged COM into Managed COM. :) Ali Zishan London

Thank you very much. I didn't know about the file watch feature. I will read through the two links and see if I can apply them. Do you know of any good books or websites that explain how to set up services that aren't file watchers? We are also wanting to set up some services that will synchronize data between a bought system and our in house systems. Once again thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my questions and pointing me in the right direction. :) If you can’t have fun at work, then why go to work?

Of course, the Netherlands is about the size of our STATE of Connecticut. Please remember the United States is the fourth largest country in the world by land area behind Russia, Canada, and China. However, even in those countries the population is relatively concentrated in one part of the country. In Russia, its the European part. In Canada, its the 100 mile strip along the U.S. border plus Edmonton. In China, it is mostly the eastern third of the country. Here, the largest concentrations of people are on the coasts but there are many major cities in the interior. (Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, etc.) Plus the sprawl from the cities is much greater. In other words, the population density is much lower and the areas of higher density are spread farther apart. (This is the same reason that high speed rail is not as cost-effective as it is in Europe or Japan.) Even if you only cover the cities, theres still a lot of miles of cable to connect them. Then, there's the rural areas that comprise 95% of the land area of the country but only contain 20-30% of the people. (60-90 million) The best that rural users can hope for, at this point is cable modem, DSL, or pricey (and relatively slow) satellite service. I'm sure it will come, but if all you're willing to pay is $30-50 a month, it will take some time. But, in my experience, once I get above 256Kbits/sec, web surfing is about identical. It is only in the downloads that speed matters because the web sites are usually the ones slowing us down. So, to those of you in other countries that have double-digit megabit/sec internet access, enjoy it, you're a fortunate minority on the planet. Andrew C. Eisenberg Nashville, TN, USA (a.k.a. Music City USA) (Yes Virginia, there are rock and roll stations in Nashville! :laugh:)