It's probably better to create a class which will isolate you from the storage mechanism in the long run as you might have to switch out the xml to a database if your users grow, or you have to add backup logic etc. This will all depend on how you see the usage growing. You can also use a Key/Value store like RaptorDB to store the information which is scalable. Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist

Yes. (I had thought of decompiling the code and doing it myself, but all dll's that are shipped to clients, must be obfuscated.)

I didn't know I had to pass the variables I want to use to my installer class. Read the below article to know what I did wrong (and how you can avoid it too). Visual Studio Setup - projects and custom actions, by Phil Wilson

Thanks mate, I needed the Object.GetType(), used Me.GetType() works too. Thanks for the help, both of you!

1. Use $test as a constant. 2. Rename your param $text to something else, e.g. $sub_text and select="$text" (without this you have an empty string 3. Your if test is incorrect. count does not have a '$' in front of it. "not($count = string-length($text))" 4. The last parm $text should be renamed to $sub_text and select attrib set to "substring($text, $count + 1)" since you should be chopping off the first character and passing it to the next recursion. "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill modified on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 7:55 PM

Thanks for all the insights guys. For you who want to know, I live in Belgium. The difference between college and university is that college is hands on, lets get programming and lets plug in some cables and see what it does. While university is math and lets see how compression works in (theoretical) depth. Not sure what I'm going to do yet, find a job or go to uni. Thanks for the insights though.

The problem appears to be a father with short arms and long pockets. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

well KeePass allows you to use external Key Files, it gives you several options how you want to protect it, just like True Crypt difference between KeePass and TruCrypt is, keepass is just a password database, and TruCrypt allows you to create mini or hdd images, or convert a partition into a protected hdd etc..

PogoboyMtK wrote: The atmosphere smells like nerdy, geeky, closet developer stank... Do we want it any other way?

Bad puns weed themselves out!

KenBonny wrote: Good for you, you like coding in C++ and Java. I'm stuck in C/AL code. It has an IF, REPEAT and SWITCH statement, nothing else. I think it's boring and it's not teaching me anything new. You could say it's a lesson in humility, but basicly I'm just writing code that gets records, adds or multiplies something and then writes the result into another table. Perhaps you could always amuse yourself by creating a cross compiler. When you were done you could write C++ code, run your compiler and the output of that would be C/AL. Or write a straight up code generator which takes some custom source and generates the patterned code.