you're welcome. In software development, getting things to work may be the goal, understanding how each part works is a necessary step to get things to work reliably. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

According to this list, item 31 (on the table of contents), it is true for C++ as well.

Hello, "Applause" for Daniel Grunwald, who, imho, gave a considerate and appropriate response to the OP. Given the OP's question was broad enough that you could see the earth's curvature in the distance ... Still, imho, he responded with some "redeeming" sense of humour to the first rapier slash of JSOP. I've voted all the (imho) sarcastic and needless posts #1 : this is a technical forum, not the lounge! And I've voted up the OP just for the sake of sheer contrariness. Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, I ask you whether it benefits CodeProject as a whole to use the technical forums as a "dumping ground" for "interpersonal static" ? Isn't it more valuable (I'm asking rhetorically) to just politely tell the OP that the question is so broad as to be off-topic, or unanswerable, or to suggest to OP that they do a search of the many technical articles on CP that have to with drawing, drawing surfaces, bitmaps, shapes, etc. in both WPF and WinForms ? To those of you who wish to admire your "godliness" : I suggest you look in a mirror :) best, Bill "Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844

Thank you! Interesting suggestion. I'll think about it. It could do the job!

Is there some reason that you wouldn't use the Access support offered by your provider until your site traffic outgrew it? If you are using a web service as a facade for data access, you should be able to, in theory, change configuration to point to a SQL Server (or other) data source in the future with little to no interruption in service. Otherwise, you seem to have hit the nail on the head in your post. Because you have limited access to the box, your options are likewise limited. Most database products, SQLCE included, require some sort of installation in order to function. I have no experience with sqlite, but from a quick read of their site, it appears that it also requires some sort of installation. One option that you may consider is constructing an ADO.NET dataset with your tables, which you can then deserialize, use, and cache, from your webservice. Though, if this were a viable approach for you, my opinion would be that you were still better off using Access. Hope that helps a bit. :) --Jesse "... the internet's just a big porn library with some useful articles stuck in." - Rob Rodi

I have not created Access databases fom code in a long time, but it can be done. I think you have to add a reference to ADOX library. Yes, here is a link http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=5797[^] to an example.

Thank you for the tips. How would you use string[]? For example you'll reserve 1000 lines then when 999 are used you'll expand the array by another 1000 lines. We'll this be fast and good enough? Colors I might not need but who knows :) What I need to know is exactly what line I'm editing.

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the TextBox controls create a new string[] everytime you request the Lines property. It is not stored; it's generated on-the-fly. As a side note (not that it will help you here) but one can resize an array using the Array.Resize static method. Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Islamic Domination: Coming to a Jewish state near you! The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

Ed.Poore wrote: Try: Numbered TextBox CP search didn't work so this was found through Google, limiting the search to www.codeproject.com. [edit]While I was looking for the article it looks like you found it, hopefully it's the same one[/edit] Thank you! I haven't used codeproject site for quite some time and I haven't searched correctly. Cristoff wrote: Great line about Land Rover! Thanks , I can prove this from experience I know too I always have to suppress my hooliganish instincts and try to behave civilized.

Thank you!

Line numbers (label control) or some custom stuff - image for example or something drawn with GDI+ like the dots added for debug breakpoints or which is the most important in my case: a drop down list control with options.

:) I haven't touched .NET for 2 years so I don't remember much. The main problem is: if I use textbox ot richtextbox how can I output it's contents into the required XML format. For example it's not clear to me. How should I recognize if a character has some special formatting and also how can I add for example a area where the number of a given line is displayed, it's style, etc. I hope it is understandable.

Thank you Michael!

Cristoff wrote: orry for the stupid question! Hey, we've all done it. Just be grateful you did here instead of when iterating through thousands of bank account balances :-) 0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall. Awasu 2.2 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.

It's now working!

It seems that CP likes eating #includes... of course I use: fstream and iostream.

Thank you everyone.

Problem solved. I have put the images in a restricted folder. Don't put your resources in restricted folders, create your own!