Keep an eye on http://www.giveawayoftheday.com. I saw them giving away TNT screen Capture for free. Its not bad, but not as many features as SnagIt

I got the same answer off a guy i work with. I think thats the way to do it. I dont get why the databinding process doesnt just ignore the optional parameter. Thanks for your response!

Thanks for your advice. At the moment my code is pretty inefficient so i can see how the update join may speed things up and make my life a little easier!

Thanks for your answers. I've decided to get rid on my byref/boolean functions and opted for the first option. I think its the most sensible choice for my application and possibly is the best choice for most apps.

Glad to help you... ;) I Love T-SQL

No problem. Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd

Thanks Christian and Mike. Now I understand!

thanks for your help guys. ill have a look at the previous threads

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how very witty anyone else have any suggestions?

ah thats solved my problem. i thought the == operator was implicitly defined to check if two objects were equal thanks kevin

Stephen Hewitt wrote: Contrary to what some people have been saying, in most cases using a vector is just as fast as using raw memory allocation functions. Hey Stephen, I just stumbled upon this old thread. In general or specifically for business apps STL is more than adequate. However I do have some minor experience in Console Gaming development and for the graphics rendering I do believe the point being made about DirectX for example might be valid. Rendering, several years back when I was involved, was a huge bottleneck and some advances have been made in that area and I seem to remember reading about what Rajkumar_R is talking about in DirectX. For production graphics I would think one would certainly want to use the current approach being supported by any particular graphics platform. led mike