Thanks Bob. Well, that kind of stuff that you mention is what I used to do for every range, and there is always a solution. But, I just wonder if already exist a general way to solve this kind of problems. I'm thinking to write a program (maybe in C++ or C#) that help me in my job to proccess these ranges. Something like you enter a range of long numbers and then the programa list you all the regular expressions that help you to locate a value within that range. Thank you very much for your help. Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

As far as I know, and I am not a database expert, ADO is build in such a way that the underlying database type is irrelavent to the programmer. Which means that when you are accessing a SQL database with ADO, it is probably going to make calls through ODBC to access the data, which is adding a middle man. In other words using ODCB will be faster than using ADO. AliR. Visual C++ MVP

Thanks man. Good info. Danny

Oh yes :doh: , of course is like C. I did'nt tried that. I was thinking in a VB way, instead of a C way. Thank you very much. Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Ok, I got it! Thank you very much! Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Forget it!. I found the answer at: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/IpAddrCtrlLib.asp[^] Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

These specify the time, in seconds, to wait for the server to respond before generating an error. The default value is 15 (seconds). "Connect Timeout=10;" -or- "Connection Timeout=10;"

Oh yes it was!. But thankx of Abhijeet I'm in heaven again. And my old VC6.0 projects compiles fine!, (just some stupid warnings, casting warnings). Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

I'm no expert on database applications, but in my case, I chose 3-tier for the following reasons, based on experience, not expertise: Complete control over client server communication, including NAT/firewall traversal. Complete control over user authentication. Complete control over network security (encryption). Generic database access from clients - I'm not bound to a specific RDBMS or data access framework. DB connection management and pooling. Here's an article that may be of interest: N-Tier Application Development with Microsoft .NET[^] It's a 3-part article but part one explains some reasons for n-tier solutions. Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

Ok, thank you, bigphish Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Yes Mike! That's what I need!!. Right on target!.:-D Thank you. Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Hi WhiteSky. Reading the link you've posted....:^) Best regards. Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Thank you Prasad. Demian. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Demian Panello wrote: rcControl.left = long(rcClient.Width() * 0.05); rcControl.top = long(rcClient.Height() * 0.10); rcControl.right = rcControl.left + long(rcClient.Width() * 0.90) ; rcControl.bottom = rcControl.top +long(rcClient.Height() * 0.40); m_cboParam.Create(CBS_DROPDOWNLIST|LBS_STANDARD|CBS_SORT|WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, rcControl, this, IDC_PARAM); RECT given while creating combo box should mention that. ie. in this case increase rcControl.bottom value, it will give you desired effect. Demian Panello wrote: But how could I set that at runtime?? It is easy ,too. Isn't it? Prasad Notifier using ATL | Operator new[],delete[][^]

I will go ahead and ask the obvious. Did you override PreTranslateMessage? Oh... just read Active X control. I do not know if PreTranslateMessage applies in this case. Might be worth a look though.....