This is a huge problem with .NET If you're a small company and generally don't distribute your apps on CD, .NET is severly limiting your potential market. I've managed to compile C++ 6.0 using Studio.NET and the final exe does not require the 22MB framework but I have been unsuccessful with VB.net I agree that EVENTUALLY, everyone will have the framework installed, but untill then, would you download a 22.1MB application or a 100Kb application? Rick Eastes. http://www.eastes.net

If you don't really need NT 4 support, perhaps you can use the DIB support for JPEG in Win2K/XP. Search MSDN for BI_JPEG. -------- There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who know binary and those who don't.

Convert everything to a text file and use the BCP (bulk copy) utility. This is the fastest way to upload to a SQL Server database (in reasonable servers, I got about 100,000 rows/second). The second fastest way, much slower, but much more flexible is using DTS. Concussus surgo. When struck I rise.