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It's happened to me with VS 2005 a few times. Kevin

Ehhh, I'm already using a httphandler (ashx). That's the problem, you can't wrap an ashx page in a web control dll. It has to be a servable page on the actual website. The point of my question is how to achieve this functionality within a seperate web control dll.

That's what I did in the second code block. Doesn't matter if you touch the dg.DataSource or set it to a local variable as its a pointer to the same dataset object. Like I said, I would see "something ASC" set the next time I would sort. The code was there to toggle so clicking it you could see it going from ASC to DESC and back again. However, it did nothing. For some reason we needed to clone the dataset and set it back to the datagrid.

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There isn't a way, no. You can terminate the thread via Thread.Abort, but that's generally a bad idea since it can leave your code in a volatile, unstable state. I recommend having your background worker spawn a new thread in the DoWork handler. Have that thread do the actual work, while the DoWork thread do 2 things: continually check for the cancel flag, and continually watch for completion of the spawned thread. When either the spawned thread finishes or the cancel flag is true, your DoWork thread can return, thus your RunWorkerCompleted handler will be fired. p.s. check out Roy Osherove's extended BackgroundWorker[^], which includes a CancelImmediately() method that accomplishes pretty much what you're trying to do. Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: God-as-Judge, God-as-Forgiver The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

Thanks, that did the trick. However you'd be up the creek if text contained both " and ' If the XML police saw the xml which contained ',",&,<,> wouldn't they give me a ticket?

newkie, when you build your ClickOnce app, you typically deploy it with a prerequisites package (a .MSI file) that installs any prerequisites, modifies the registry, the GAC, whatever. To make this part of your prerequisites, you must bootstrap it and make it a prerequisite of your ClickOnce deployment. There's a tool (deployed via ClickOnce) that can generate Visual Studio BootStrap packages for you; all you do is point it to your MSI file, and it will generate it. That application can be installed here[^]. Once you've built a bootstrap for you .MSI file, go into Visual Studio, open up the properties of your ClickOnce project, go into the Publish tab, click the Prerequisites button. Now, your newly created bootstrapper for your MSI package will show up in the checklist. Check it. Now deploy your app via click once. It will generate a webpage that lists prerequisites (it will list your MSI file now), and the page will have a link to Install prerequisites, or launch the application. If you click Install, it will check for any needed prerequisites (.NET framework, your .MSI file, and any others you've specified) and install those on-demand. It's very cool. :cool: Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: For Christians: The Significance of Yom Teruah The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango