That's great to hear :) I told you, min always has good advice. daniero

Ok I guess I didn't make myself to clear. My apologies. Ok here it goes. I have a web application that has 30 user controls. What I am wanting to do is if they leave the application in the middle of it and go to some other site like Google. I want to force them to go to the Login page. This would need to be handled when the user goes to another site then tries to return by hitting the Back button. I already had the code you have mentioned but that doesn't solve the problem. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris

Hey man I had that working on my other versions of the same sub procedure but the reason i was doing the string instead is because I have multiple grids and on page index changed I need to set focus back to the grid that i changed the page index on. but the problem is this, you can't set focus to a datagrid so i have been trying to create a transparent textbox so that it would be there but they wouldn't realixe they could type in it. the idea i have come up with is to make the forecolor, backcolor and cursor when in the textbox transparent there is a problem though for some reason when all this is set up the cursor and text typed in is still black. I have tried making the textbox invisible but it causes an error so if anyone has any ideas of how to make this type of functionality work like I'm talking about an advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Ok guys maybe this will make this idea a little more simple. I'm thinking about making a DIV tag in the HTML code to put in the place of the list box. Has anyone done the functionality that I'm trying to do? It seems simple enough using a DIV tag and Javascript but if anyone has had any experience doing this type of function and could help me figure out if this is a good way of getting this functionality to work, or is there any other alternative for this particular situation? Please let me know. Thanks, ccotton333

Sorry I read that wrong. I don't need the mouse coordinates; I need the coordinates of the panel after it has been moved from its default location. Do you have any ideas on how this might can be achieved? Thanks, ccotton333

ok basically i have IIS on the webserver and then i have a private network between the SQL server and webserver. the LAN is also on another private lan an and all pcs on that lan can access the internet. so i have this SQL server that cannot reach the internet and i have written two programs one to run on the SQL server and one to run on the webserver that check on the SQL server for the alarm messages. when i am working on the webserver and have established a connection between it and the SQL server(i.e. connect using remote desktop or through the run dialog and enter in the username and password) i can run each program on the machines and they run great but when i set it up to run as a service. it seems to lose the connection between the two servers and doesn't run as it should. any ideas as to what i'm doin wrong? Thanks, ccotton333

Thanks i'll try it out but the problem is i can set that up but i'm doing this site for a friend or mine and he would like to be able to move the stuff around and then lock it into place and that be the way that everyone else sees the site however he arranges it. i know how to do the drag and drop idea i'm just trying to decide how to save that setting i'm sure i could store it in a database and pull that info on load of the page or something. i know how to do everything in DHTML but when it comes to storing the coordinates so they can be used by everyone so the page will always be the same unless he changes it up. but i'll check out this info and see if maybe i can come up with something that'll get the job done. Thanks for everything, ccotton333

If you need to retrieve it from a modal check here : http://blogs.wdevs.com/sebastien.lachance/archive/2005/04/27/3153.aspx My Blog

You will need a class that inherits from System.Web.Ui.Page and then your both pages ingertis from your custom class. I'll try to write an article for the next week about this. I'll let you know. emorales mcdba, mcad, mcsd

YOu can use the config file to keep key/value pairs. Keep the connection string in config. :zzz:----------------------------------------------------------------------:(( T Manjaly My C# Tutorials articles www.dotnetspider.com

Try to check the connection string library[^] and some discussion from here.[^] A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step. APO-CEDC Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office

Well the code is kind of long: Public Class frmMain4 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Private Sub cboFullname_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cboFullname.SelectedIndexChanged Dscustinfo21.Clear() dbCustInfo.SelectCommand.Parameters("fullname").Value = cboFullname.Text dbCustInfo.Fill(Dscustinfo21) End Sub Private Sub btnEdit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnEdit.Click 'allows you to edit a record If btnEdit.Text = "Edit" Then UnlockTextBoxes() btnSave.Enabled = True btnEdit.Text = "Cancel" ElseIf btnEdit.Text = "Cancel" Then LockTextBoxes() btnSave.Enabled = False End If End Sub Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click 'saves the record LockTextBoxes() btnSave.Enabled = False btnEdit.Text = "Edit" Try dbCustInfo.Update(Dscustinfo21, "tcust") Catch ex As Exception MsgBox("Update didn't work.") End Try MsgBox("Update must have worked.") End Sub Private Sub mnuFileExit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuFileExit.Click 'closes the program Me.Close() End Sub Private Sub UnlockTextBoxes() txtLastName.ReadOnly = False txtName.ReadOnly = False txtAddress.ReadOnly = False txtAddress1.ReadOnly = False txtCity.ReadOnly = False txtState.ReadOnly = False txtZip.ReadOnly = False txtCountry.ReadOnly = False txtHomePhone.ReadOnly = False txtWorkPhone.ReadOnly = False txtMobile.ReadOnly = False txtPager.ReadOnly = False txtEmail.ReadOnly = False End Sub Private Sub LockTextBoxes() txtLastName.ReadOnly = True txtName.ReadOnly = True txtAddress.ReadOnly = True txtAddress1.ReadOnly = True txtCity.ReadOnly = True txtState.ReadOnly = True txtZip.ReadOnly = True txtCountry.ReadOnly = True txtHomePhone.ReadOnly = True txtWorkPhone.ReadOnly = True txtMobile.ReadOnly = True txtPager.ReadOnly = True txtEmail.ReadOnly = True End Sub Private Sub frmMain4_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal

Just give you an idea about an application that convert from Access project to VB6 application. I think there is should be an update version that could convert from Access application to VB.Net too. Try to use google and search for it. The application that I used is convert the form from access to vb6, you can use the other control like you use it in access too. Roath Kanel APO-CEDC Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office