Use Shockwave Flash.OCX

thank you carlos this is very clear thank you for your guide and help Gary

There is also DateTime.Now.AddDays(4) :)

Thanks OIC is working now thank for all the help....both of u thank you Gary

GaryKoh wrote: Dim myconnection As New OleDbConnection("provider=microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0; datasource = Application.ExecutablePath + \LibrarySystem.mdb") This is your connection string. So it actually evaluates the variable you put in it, shouldn't it look more like this: Dim myconnection As New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & Application.ExecutablePath & "\LibrarySystem.mdb") Better yet, assemble the path name to the database using the proper function: Dim dbPath As String = Path.Combine(Application.ExecutablePath, "LibrarySystem.mdb") Then use this to open you database: Dim myconnection As New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & dbPath) RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

wow.... thanks ehmed..i will dream hahaha sorry for the late reply.... my motherboard got fried i will try out this code thanks again Gary

hi jim thank you..it do help a bit all i have to do is make it compatible with my program Gary

You'll have to use WMI and the System.Management namespace to get the all the IP addresses that all the NIC in the machine are using. I can't give you any sample code right now because I just don't have the time. What was the link to the previous article with the code that you are using? If you post code, make sure you put it between and tags. Also, make sure that you check the little box at the bottom of the message post window that says "Do not treat <'s as HTML tags." RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

There is no one article that will do what you want. Your requirements are a combination of a bunch of smaller techniques that need to be put together correctly. What's with the "random" order number? I've never seen a requirement where the order number must be random. I've only seen "serial number" type order numbers. How I've seen it done in the past, and I've done this myself, is to have a seperate table in the database that holds your databases status and statistics, such as the last used order number. Your code would call a stored procedure in the database that retrieves the last used order number, increments it, stores it back in the table and creates a blank order record in the "orders" table, using the newly created order number. Then this record is sent back to your program as a dataset (SELECT statement). Your app then fills in the details of the order and writes back the order record, without having to worry about the order number at all. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

hahaha thanks dave the problem i have is just the Regional and Language Setting in my computer it is set to my country setting but now i have set it to US-English everything is working well and now i understand it perfectly the parse method is always base on each computer regional setting thanks you really help me thank you Gary

The TextBox's are not real good at tabs. Your best bet is to change the font of the TextBox you want to show this data in to a fixed width font, like Lucida Console or New Time Roman. This will make every character the exact same width, including tabs and spaces. Then, when you go to output the data: Dim outText As String outText = "Name" & ControlChars.Tab & "Age" & ControlChars.NewLine outText = outText & "Gary" & ControlChars.Tab & "18" & ControlChars.NewLine TextBox1.Text = outText This, of course, assumes that you have a TextBox on your form called TextBox1 and that it is setup as a MultiLine textbox. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

wow.. it works already and this link provide me more information than i require thanks Dave this helps me a lot thank you again for your help Gary

You can search the articles on CodeProject for "sockets" and you'll come up with a bunch of 'em. There aren't any written in VB.NET, but there are in C#. You can convert the code to VB.NET pretty easily. You can start with Asynchronous socket communication [^] RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

VB.NET provides the functions of winsock in system.net.sockets. Use the tcpclient and tcplistener classes in your code.

some sort like a thank you mail but anyway thanks for all your help:) Gary

thank you very much for your help currently in using VB.Net so i'll study the winsock so that i can try to connect or detect other computer again here i thank you for your help Gary

An easy way is to belong to the admin group. Else, you will have to read it : "Développement de logiciels dans Visual Studio .NET sans les privilèges administrateurs " (use a translator if you don't speak french, i didn't find a similar article in english). Best regards, Cyril. Cyril PINEAU