Thanks for replying. But this random number generator isn't as secure as cryptography RGN's. Something like the RandomNumberGenerator class. Cheers, Gerry. Gerry.

Gerry wrote: I want to read the name and path attributes of the forms element. Ahhh ok. If you are wanting a more general way of accessing any value in the web.config then yes, you probably have to use the Xml classes to get at it. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Shog9 wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul.

We provide Security for a number of business areas and there developers currently have no intention to use .net but we provide a portal into there systems through our security system. We want to provide a .net solution for new customers and hopefully let our existing customers leverage .net through, issue/reissue FormsAuth cookies. We did use SiteServer but this is unsupported.

None of these ideas work. any others? Gerry.

check the 'LoadUserProfile' from Platform SDK BOOL LoadUserProfile( HANDLE hToken, // user token LPPROFILEINFO lpProfileInfo // profile ); :rose:

Thank you, this did the job. Gerry.

Thank you Mr Anonymous, this works brilliant. We have to change lots of dialog classes, is there a place, perhaps at the app level, we could create the solidbrush & it would work for all dialogs.... Currently, we are creating the brushes in each class, this works. Again, Thanks..... Gerry.

See Winsock Programmer's FAQ : Basic Winsock Examples

Note: All the dlls, exe's work well in VC5. I have a staticlib that all my exe's use, the staticlib links to the vendors dlls' in VC6. The staticlib compiles/links ok. But if I look a the lib file & the vendor dll,using dumpbin I notice that the name mangling has changed in the lib file. I then try to recompile one of my exe's with the new lib file. I get an unresolved external, due to the different name mangling.... Gerry.

Check these API functions: CopyFile SHFileOperation Tomasz Sowinski http://www.shooltz.com.pl

Thanks, this worked great... Gerry.

moral of the story is always init your ptrs to NULL in your constructors and test for NULL before using them kidz ;) --- "every year we invent better idiot proof systems and every year they invent better idiots"

I've already done this in a batch file, but in the C++ compiled code, it has system("Myapp.exe").....I'm trying desperately not to change any code..... I was going to change the environment var in the Registry, from cmd.exe to command.exe....this works...but results undefined . Thanks. Gerry.

Cheers Mick, That makes everything clearer. I appreciate all the advice you have given me. I'm going out to buy Advanced Windows for NT, J. Richter...I think it has great coverage of processes & threads.. Thanks. Gerry.