francoisdotnet wrote: Where should I be looking?? You should be looking in the documentation[^] which makes it very clear that hash values are not fixed from one environment to the next, and cannot be shared between systems. Their sole purpose is to speed up things on one machine by providing a reasonable hash value as fast as possible. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

Thanks for your input Dideon, I agree with you deferred execution doesn't solve the problem threading solves. The problem it creates is that even thought the LINQ query is in the background thread it doesn't execute the call to the database until much later, that is until back in the UI thread (most of the time). As the other article I posted suggests, there are ways to "force" LINQ to execute in the background thread but I don't think that is ideal as it kind of defeats some of the porpose of LINQ. For now I have decided to stay away from LinqToSql for bigger projects. Still using and loving Linq in general though ;)

I did want the XML, but from the code you posted it looks like the LINQ SP function is correctly formed. The problem here is that you are assuming that a SP returns the same as a LINQ table entityset. It does not, so .ToList() won't work. Stored Procedures return a System.Data.Linq.ISingleResult object. To convert this into the rows you expected, use this code: 'Get the ISingleResult from function Dim resultset = c.db.phy_data_onmonth(YearVal, MonthVal) 'Get the collection of values Dim d As List(Of phy_data) = resultset.GetResults(of phy_data) 'Howard

but it will be too long, at least for me, before these new quad-core's become affordable...

If you are going the standard sql route and it is slow, maybe query analyzer could shed some light for you where bottlenecks are. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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yip, kinda like that. i'm hoping someone can help me in the right direction as far as saving these custom defined areas to database as they are not just simple x,y,height,width measurements... it might be a "freehand" shape. also how, once you have established a scale, to calculate areas etc... ***** thought of a better way to explain this ... ever seen these automated terminals at the movies. on the touch screen you select the movie you want to see and then you shows you a schematic of "the cinema", the blue squares will (for example) be the "taken seats" and the white square will represent the "available seats". The user can then click on the seats they want to book. this is effectively what i need to do .. the only addition is that in a cinema the seats are predetermined. My application also need to allow the user to define the number, size and location of the "seats" in a given area/layout. *****

Does the quote ID have to be numeric or could you use a string? Does it have to be sequential or just unique within the system? How about a combination of unique employee ID and time? Assuming it takes longer than a second to generate a quote then you would only need the date-time stamp with seconds. You could then encode this as a string in base 36 (all 26 letters and 10 numbers)

I tried exactly what you had there before posting the question. That DesignMode for some reason returns False. Thanks for the reply. I think that article will be a help... For now I have worked around it with my own designmode boolean I set to false during runtime :)

Hmm - I like that! cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP The 9 things Microsoft should be announcing at MIX07 (but won't)

Sorry I have no idea what your point is. The capabilities of a specific language don't alter the principles of Object Oriented Analysis and Design. led mike

SSMS here. "We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information." - Neal Stephenson

Makes perfect sense! Can't believe I didn't think of that. Oh well :) Would still be interesting if anyone else has another approach. There is often more ways then one to skin a cat :doh:

Francois Searle wrote: Also made by Joe Guess I am a slower typist, did not see his post :) It just goes to show how many developers have been burnt by this problem.. Well, I guess it would depend on what percentage of your sales comes from 98 and how much revenue it generates compared to how much work is envolved to stay compatible while not hindering your progression on to new technologies. Back in the Win 16/32 battle, this is where I counted on Borland's hype of thier "compatible controls" to give you Win 95 controls in a Win 16 app. That was another mistake! Trying to stay compatible cost me months of work on both ends and the result was a lost of future revenue trying to catch back up in the Win95 world. Rocky <>< Latest Post: Visual Studio 2005 Standard, whats missing? Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]