I believe the second is telling you that you can write a function that takes the tsource and returns a bool to tell you a match, and pass it to the First method. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

can you please share the code of your select statement with us?

Did the test case work for you? Also the Contains method checks if the actual object is present in the list so if you create a similar object (all the properties are the same) it won't find it since it's not the same object. The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

Union is only usable in db when you combine several result sets. You cannot use it to pass arrays from client. I don't remember if you can pass table type parameter in sql server 2000. That would be a solution in your case. It's not automatic so you must program the insert loop inside the procedure. Another option is to use SqlBulkCopy class. Have a look at that also. The need to optimize rises from a bad design. My articles[^]

Well, to clarify further, you would re-verify the validity of the field, and if it was ok then you would "SetError" to ""

mahraja wrote: Hi Is it possible to write in a text file with a color other than black? How? Usually you can only write in 1 color unless you can find a rainbow colored floppy disc....

another site that has helped me a lot in the past is http://www.regular-expression.info/[^] they even have a tool that you can use to quickly test your regex's Please remember to rate helpful or unhelpful answers, it lets us and people reading the forums know if our answers are any good.

Hi, Just a couple of immediately obvious problems: 1. The Accept call will block until someone (the server) calls back. So... you should either use a separate thread (as suggested) or don't call Accept until you've sent the command to the server. 2. I can't see that you're sending the server the port number you're listening on (unless you've done this in sendCommand(), of course). If you don't, how can it call back? This doesn't apply to passive FTP, of course, but in passive FTP you don't listen - you connect. In any case, unless you're just practicing on how to use sockets - if you really need an FTP client and don't want to do all the details yourself: look at System.Net.WebClient and System.Net.FtpWebRequest in the framework documentation. Either of them will probably do what you want - and a lot easier. Pick the one you like... -- Peter