Hi, I am working in the same side. If you get any solution please inform me. One thing we can do is to make an encryption decryption class for the data. before storing the data to the tag you must convert it through some algorithm. For Example you can reverse the order of bits in each byte before storing to the tag. You must have to reverse the bytes again when you will read from the tag. I am going through the different Issue. I am trying to store the data of 1433 bytes in 1K. if you have any idea of compressing the bytes please share that. Can we use the block 3 of each sector. I don't need the password. How can I override that. Thank You. Regards

why do i need to query the database for the length of the field since my textboxes are databound (using drag & drop from the data sources window) and the properties of the the datatables show the mapped fields (i.e. varchar(6) to system.string with length 6). Is there any way I can access these properties of the datatables.

Thank you Giorgi for the link, I checked out the link, but it uses Reporting Services. and I don't want to use Reporting Services. My application is actually a Point of Sale which prints the Transaction Bills (embedded report). Showing the report in the reportviewer and then showing the print dialog irritates the user alternately, is there any way to print the report to the default printer without showing print dialog. thank you once again.

Thank You for reply. I will try it out

Thank you Ennis. It really works for me. and thank you for the reference URL too.

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Calling Focus() won't change the tab selection. Plus a control won't gain Focus if it's not visible. You're going to have to show the tab page yourself. Now, if you want to keep it generic, I suppose you can do something like this. Just pass the control you want to give focus to in this function. It's just that easy. Private Sub SetControlFocus(ByVal ctrl As Control) ' Validate argument. If (ctrl Is Nothing) Then Return ' If control belongs to a tab page, then show it. If (TypeOf ctrl.Parent Is TabPage) Then myTabControl.SelectedTab = DirectCast(ctrl.Parent, TabPage) End If ' Give control focus. ctrl.Focus() End Sub

There is no way to embed a VB6 app inside a .NET app and expect it to run. It must be a seperate file. Communication is going to be a huge PITA. You cannot call its functions or anything else, unless the VB6 app exports them through COM. A normal VB6 app cannot do this unless it's written as an ActiveX server. As for the controls that work in VB6 and won't work in C#, I doubt it. I haven't come acrossed a control that didn't work in the .NET world, but did in VB6. I have, however, come acrossed some badly written controls that I didn't even bother with in the conversion to .NET. I either got an updated control or just wrote an equivalent control myself and replaced it. Your best solution is to scrap the VB6 app entirely and rewrite in C#. Why have 2 different runtimes loaded, VB6 Runtime and the .NET Framework, for your app to work? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Thank You David, Let me check it out!

Thank You Roy, I am not sure and don't remember it correctly (I read it somewhere) that there is something like a Xor Pen. Is there anything like this that can help me? Another CP user in the C# forum suggested me that I should remember the Pixel values of the image (for rectangular area) before drawing the rectangle. How do I remember those values and how to reload those values?

Absolutely hiding isn't possible. But there are a few tricks to accomplish what you are trying to do. Have a look at this snippet: [Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)] public override bool AutoScroll { get { return base.AutoScroll; } set {} } - It will disable Intellisense in the designer. - It will hide it from the properties window. - It won't allow any changes to this property Note that if a user of your control types yourClass.AutoScroll = false then the compiler won't give any error... but who said that solution was perfect ;). But if you also add the Obsolete attribute then intellisense will at least give him a hint.