Have you really thought this out? Are you sure your monitor is big enough to display say a full length shot of a spine? You will also need a very good camera otherwise the picture will be rubbish. Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd Proud to be a 2009 Code Project MVP

jamesjk wrote: but nothing special happened... no event in the message receiving control was fired.. am I missing anything ? The code was not to fire the events. It was to help you find the right message sequence and the lParam and wParam values to pass (read msdn documentation of those messages to find out the correct values to pass). You send the messages using SendMessage. So I guess the sequence would be sending, WM_LBUTTONDOWN in mousedown event WM_MOUSEMOVE in mousemove WM_MOUSEHOVER in mousehover (just in case the covered control uses it for something, i don't know. the same applies to WM_MOUSELEAVE) WM_LBUTTONUP in mouseup I don't know anything about WM_COMMAND nor 0xc206 (I couldn't find anything about it, maybe it's an undocumented message, i don't know). I think you shouldn't use WM_SETFOCUS and WM_KILLFOCUS. WM_CAPTURECHANGED, i don't know, maybe you should send it right after WM_MOUSEUP in mouseup event. P.S. I've never tried to simulate something like dragging before but I did try sending simple messages before. I don't know much so you should experiment more. And study sequences generated from cases like mousedown, move, leave the control, re-enter the control, move, mouse up... (cases like that) to ensure you get the desired result in both normal cases and extreme cases. And you're welcome. Eslam Afifi

That is the only option that I can think of with the out-of-the-box visual studio. The only other option that I can think of is to buy a third party installer creation suite. Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my homepage Oracle Studios Discounted or Free Software for Students: DreamSpark - downloads.channel8.msdn.com MSDN Academic Alliance - www.msdnaa.com

If same assembly is used in multiple projects, you can deploy it in GAC.

Thanks Graus... Even though you didn't mention anything specifically in your reply.. , it helped to track the actual problem... In fact I designed a usercontrol using some third party controls.. When I tried using my usercontrol (which was actually) designed in another system by myself) I miised to register the third party controls... Thanks Again...

You could have 1 page per question, just do your layout for a page to fit 1 question on it, then have controls to move to the next question, which would have exactly the same layout just with the question text and answers changed. (it wouldn't actually need to be a differnt page or form or anything, just change the text on the form to match the next question) Or, you could use something like the FlowLayoutPanel, which would allow you to add controls to it and it rearranges them to flow in order. You'd probably create one Panel per question, using a predefined layout for the panel, with question and answer buttons, then added each of the question panels to 1 main FlowLayoutPanel which would take care of ordering the question panels for you. Simon

Its Windows DataGrid

It sounds like you're not using a DataGridView, otherwise the update would have been made to both the Datasource and the DataGridView. What are you using to display the records? Because if you're not using an Autobound Control then you will have to re-execute your Select Query to Fetch the updated records. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.

Hello, I gave this suggestion some time ago: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=1782792&forumid=1649&XtraIDs=1649&searchkw=Readonly&sd=22+Sep+2006&ed=21+Dec+2006&author=Martin%23&stype=1#xx1782792xx[^] I got now answer if it works, maybe you can try it. If you are using a "while" statement for waiting, be sure that you have some last exit possibility! All the best, Martin

jamesjk wrote: pls tell me Can my problem be solved just by compiling my application with frame work 2.0. Possibly. jamesjk wrote: Would there be any kind of migration issues? The only way to tell is to try it. There ARE breaking changes between .NET 1.x and 2.0. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Erhm, yes this is possible, but I don't think you want to solve the problem this way. Have you tried converting the old db to the new db using DTS packages, it's a SQL Server thing and realy powerfull for converting data in such a manner.. .: I love it when a plan comes together :. http://www.zonderpunt.nl

thanks mav. But how do I know the system idle time? Does the API does it by itself(I hope no).....? If I use Application.Idle definitely its not gonna to work. Is there anything like System.Idle :D ? thanks once again for the help & still look forward to you suggestions...

First of all thanks for the reply... I think I was not clear on the issue.. What I'm trin to achieve is a kind of screenlock.. Just as what we have in Windows if the system remains idle for a particular time... Once again thanks for the reply & keenly look forward to ur replies

Hi, I also need such control or component, when you got any information update me also. my e-mail: prau82@gmail.com Thanks in advance Prabu