machman1 wrote: "I am hear to weed out wantabe programmers". Maybe he's here to rule weed out wannabe programmers by checking their spelling?

use the following command on the click event of the button formname.show formname is the name of the form you want to open

machman1 wrote: through vb.net can you use DDE links directly No. There is no support for DDE in the .NET Framework. YOu'll have to P/Invoke the appropriate Win32 functions to use DDE. machman1 wrote: Where can I go to get information on working with FIX/API Google search results[^]. machman1 wrote: Can you use Active-X controls in vb.net Yes. Just add it to the ToolBox. Right click in the ToolBox, then pick Add/Remove Items... Find your ActiveX control on the COM tab and you'll be all set to drop it on your form. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

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I think… open your VB6 project by using Visual Studio (Wizard ), get an idea and rewrite, by creating a new project - is the best way. . Regards, Chatura Dilan If at first you don't succeed, try; try again, so that you know what not to do the next time. The answer is out there.

Yep - an easy way - use the StrReverse() function. This is rom the Visual Studio 2005 help files... Dim myString As String = "ABCDEFG" Dim revString As String ' Returns "GFEDCBA" revString = StrReverse(myString) ...Steve 1. quod erat demonstrandum 2. "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him for life." I read that somewhere once :-)