I did in the end copy the file to a temporary file which gets destroyed on destruction. Thanks all for your help.

Iain Wiseman wrote: I think but don't know We have a saying where I work: "There is no thinking allowed. You either know, or you need to go find out. Thinking only results in misunderstandings and huge bugs." But, I agree with the other poster. This sounds like a very kludgy way of updating the web service interfaces. Nothing personal, just my two cents... A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Thanks all, I come from an open source background and want to treat my colleagues who use microsoft fairly. All I want is the number of records in error and possible which they are. I assume that once you have a package to load them theat error reporting was easy. Reading this SSIS does not provide this easily. With oracle PLSQL this would simply be looking at a return code and doing something. I will ask the developer how to proceed.

It was to keep the selection down to something reasonable. All works now thanks for your help.