Good suggestion! I'll give it a try, thanks! jaspe

Thanks!

Now i am a little confused.... "...at any time you can go into your project's properties and set 'Use Managed Extensions' to YES..." As you posted earlier, i need to set 'Use Managed Extensions' to YES, but here you also say they are the .Net BCL. If so wouldn't i NOT want to use Managed Extensions? I'm being fussy i know... I just want to be sure i understand! :) SN

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