Just use entity references: < > and & It might be messy to go through an entire XML doc to convert values containing these special characters so, in the past, I used to just load the XML into a XML DOM object and then get it again - the DOM object does the conversion for you! (ignore the HTML tags in my sig - I turned off HTML so that the entity references show up) Erik Westermann - wWorkflow.net - BizTalk Consulting Services SOA * ESB * BPI * SaaS ... forget the alphabet soup - get the main course with our consulting services! wWorkflow.net or +1 416-809-1453

You don't give your label a chance to paint itself because the main (UI-)Thread is busy performing your steps. Either put a call to Application.DoEvents(); after each text update (beware - that's the quick&dirty way that can lead to other, unexpected problems) or do it correctly: Put the calls to DoStepN() into a separate thread so your UI will remain responsive. The class BackgroundWorker makes it quite easy. Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...

Did you set the application title and description in the Assembly Properties of the VS project? AFAIK, Windows Explorer pulls the display name of the application from that information. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki

thanks guys, I've got it working

I just wanted to add that - foreach loops the same way as you would probably yourself with a for loop (nothing strange about it, really) --> keep the foreach, because it is better readable - Focus should work, to debug the problem, try to have a look at the ActiveControl property of your form or user control to see, which control has currently the focus and whether that control has a validate method that prevents setting of the focus to the button. Urs -^-^-^-^-^-^-^- no risk no funk

Hi, set label.AutoSize true so the label grows and shrinks automatically, then set label.Text, now get label.Size and adapt form.Size accordingly. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.

looks good. IsInstanceOfType should do the job thanks

You can also consider usage of 3rd party scheme like CryptoLicensing - it comes with built-in cryptographic LicenseProvider derived class for use with licx files.

danielk_ wrote: xml schema by passing in a database name, and table name If you export the table as an xml file you can then use the SDK tool XSD.exe to generate a schema for it and then it can be used again to generate a dataset from it.  I think :~, based on running xsd.exe in a prompt without any args (displays the help). danielk_ wrote: programatically generate visual studio project files and solution files? They're just text files, depends on what your input is but it shouldn't be too difficult to build your own utility for this.  If you're really stuck take a look at the Solution Import Wizard (or something with a similar name) in SharpDevelop [^]for some pointers. The Welsh will always support two teams: The Welsh, and anyone playing England :)