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You're right. I'm not using the validator as intended. There are plenty of things I can do in a cell data template to get my intended functionality. Thanks for the help. It didn't get me to my original goal, but illuminated the error of my ways and saved me time digging for an answer that doesn't exist.

LOL! I've been saying the same thing for three years. Either I'll convince someone that we need to write our own application to replace this one, or hope the vendor moves away from this model.

Good point :) Mika The need to optimize rises from a bad design. My articles[^]

So here's the story. I was wrong about the hashes. But, 2005 uses case sensitive passwords by default. So when our vendor's application converts all passwords to upper before connecting, of course it'll do the same when it creates the users. So I have the misfortune of being an idiot and writing supplementary applications for badly designed software. Yay for me, and all I have to do now is edit a few libraries.

Sounds good. I'm really looking forward to it now though. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before. My blog | My articles

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I decided to serialize the object i was using to keep my configuration settings and save it to a static xml file. This seems like the simplest method to me. To reiterate my original question: Does anyone have any tips on the best practice for setting up a configuration tool for another application? I did some digging and can't quite find anything. Although... an idea just struck me. What if I call the config tool from the same executable that the service is run through? I'll have to try this out later since I've already got this working.

If you were to open the same file using Bitmap bm = new Bitmap(imagePath) somewhere, THEN it would be locked as long as that bitmap was open. Using a filestream to open a bitmap and closing the stream, solves the problem. Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

I guess I was on the right track. Here's the code that makes it work. BindingSource _mainBS; string _fieldname; TARData.TARDataSet.DataRow[] _mRA; string _searchstring; int _currentPosition; _mainBS is assigned by a constructor, likewise _fieldname. public void FindNext() { if (_searchstring != textBox1.Text) { _searchstring = textBox1.Text; _currentPosition = 0; string searchCrit = getColumnSearchString(((DataRowView)_mainBS.Current).DataView.Table.Columns[_fieldname].DataType); _mRA = (TARData.TARDataSet.Carter_TAR_MainRow[])((DataRowView)_mainBS.Current).DataView.Table.Select( searchCrit + " LIKE '%" + _searchstring + "%'"); } if (_mRA.Length > 0) { this._mainBS.Position = this._mainBS.Find("Main_ID", _mRA[_currentPosition]["Main_ID"]); ; } _currentPosition = (_currentPosition + 1) % _mRA.Length; } Just in case _fieldname is an int type, I throw in this little tidbit to perform a convert. private string getColumnSearchString(Type type) { if (type == typeof(int)) return "Convert(" + _fieldname + ",System.String)"; else return _fieldname; } Not too efficient, but I still like admiring it. Not a bad way to spend an hour of my day.

Thanks for confirming.

Hi, Seems to me one of us is not understanding what the other meant. Either you start with a TYPE double that holds an integer VALUE, then my advice is to convert it to a TYPE int; that will succeed without problems (unless you exceed the int's range). Or your TYPE double holds a non-integer VALUE, and then you will not be able to explain to me what the meaning of most of its bits is; your question does not make sense in this case. Did you at all try what I suggested? :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.

How is that possible unless you have custom code. From msdn for 3.5: ToolTip text is not displayed for controls that are disabled.

BAH!! I've already done this. I can just set a filter in a binding source and bind Enabled to any column containing a positive integer value in that source. Thanks for your input KK. If I wind up putting code in the validation event, that's probably what I'll do.

Why ActiveX? Mostly laxiness to stay in something I'm familiar with (C#) and avoiding learning something new. I suppose the time has come to familiarize myself with AJAX and all its goodness. Thanks for the reply.