dan neely wrote: It will be once the new forum software is finished and debugged. Oh come on, Dan - that was Chris's standard response! Stop stealing his lines :rolleyes: Regards, Nish Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog) My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

When I changed the driver used for the connection from version 2.50 to 3.51, it started working again. :) --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

Yes, that is the full error message. Don't you just love it when you get a descriptive error message that immediately pinpoints the source of the error? ;) --- It's amazing to see how much work some people will go through just to avoid a little bit of work.

Thanks. Now at least I know that I use a "truncated mean", and that most other alternatives are unapplicable. I also managed to translate this term to swedish ("trimmat medelvärde") after a lot of searching (the swedish version of Wikipedia doesn't even mention it). So I will still be using the same method, but now I can motivate it better. :) --- b { font-weight: normal; } -- modified at 8:14 Friday 13th January, 2006