Add parameter to your procedure: yourSP.Parameters.Add(ParamName, SqlParamType, length); //length is optional Pass value to the param yourSP.Parameters[ParamName].Value = ParamValue; Sincerely, Elina Life is great!!! Enjoy every moment of it! :-O

Perfect it was the cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure line that I was missing... thanks!

At the top of your file put: using System.Configuration; When you want to retrieve the setting use: string connString = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["MyConnectionStringSetting"]; (Change "MyConnectionStringSetting" to the name of the setting in the app.config[^] file) "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

This is basic data access work. You should be able to find tons of samples, snippets, etc. on CodeProject. If all else fails, Google. josh

if(formA == null) { formA = new FormA(); } if(!formA.Visible) { formA.Show(); } formA.Focus();

Depending on the browser you're using you can try zooming out, but then the text may be too small. Opera 8.5x has a nifty shrink-to-width feature. I've only ever used it once though so I don't know how effective it is in general. Although I have Opera installed it's not my primary browser. But I do tend to turn to it when it offers features such as this that the others don't. Kevin