You're not allowed to interact with a Form on a separate thread. What you need to do is call BeginInvoke(). What this will do is push a delegate to the end of the Windows message queue. That delegate will be invoked on the UI thread, which will allow you to safely write your string to the TextBox. The following article has more information. See the code example at the bottom. http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/begininvoke.asp[^]

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You can edit the row within the datagrid, or you can remember a primary key for the row, use it to do an UPDATE, and then rebind. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Hello, What technique have you adopted to write the data into the file? I think you should append space " " at the end of each data element while writing to the file. HTH. Maqsood Ahmed [MCP,C#] Kolachi Advanced Technologies http://www.kolachi.net

Sorry, but I dont get what you are trying to do... You assign the Text of the textbox to the object variable t6 and print it out at the end. But in the loop you are only adding (I thought you want to substract something) values to the variable Amount. And what is For Each t As String In TextBox6.Text supposed to do in your opinion? I dont think thats what you are really trying to perform...

thanks for the help. The help you provided was exactly what i needed. i was trying to get the amount column of a datagrid, for which the user enters the amount they paid, to show in the datagrid caption text when entered. I am going to post another question so that you wont have to keep to returning this one. thanks Makniteasy

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very easy.... 1. Your system should be connected with internet on boot or all the time 2. Buy SMS from any web site. 3. they will give you sample code which will send sms. 4. Put this in window service , On start event of service put the sample code provided by SMS site 6. And then come back to forum to check the standby events and other stuff.. I guess these steps would be enough to begin with. Best Regards Rizwan Bashir

try - textbox.text = d.tostring()

Well I replied quickly and typed the code just to give you the idea. The error you get is because the count and rows should refer the realdatabase you have behing the datagrid (dataset or dataview or whatever). Since I don't know the architecure of your application I don't konw how to address it but you can easily transpose the following code: Let's suppose you have a dataset called d1 with a table t1 with two columns: c1 & c2. Where c2 is the progressive total as you want. You can create a sub passing the table, the index of the value column and the index of the progressive total column as follows: private sub RecalcProgressive(dt as datatable,i1 as integer,i2 as integer) dim index as integer ' if dt.rows.count=0 then exit sub ' If no records then exit dt.rows(0).item(i2)=dt.rows(0).item(i1) ' First line only progressive=value if dt.rows.count=1 then exit sub ' If only one line then it's done for index=1 to dt.rows.count-1 ' For each line in the DB dt.rows(index).item(i2)=dt.rows(index).item(i1)+dt.rows(index-1).item(i2) ' Calc next index end sub Then, according to the hypothesis before, you can call it: public sub Main <...> RecalcProgressive(d1.t1,1,2) <...> end sub Bye Briga

I want the user to be able to delete any row selected. Yes the data is displayed in a datagrid. how do I capture the ID? And just as a little memory refresher its Remove. thanks for the help.

Hey It Seems to be ok but the part that says drNew = drGrid.NewRow it says NewRow is not declared. am I supposed to replace this with something.

You are probably not closing the file properly after you have written to it. Have a look at the DataSet.ReadXml and DataSet.WriteXml on MSDN, both have examples of how to code it properly: DataSet.ReadXml - MSDN[^] DataSet.WriteXml - MSDN[^] Hope this helps Tom

My mistake I meant amount subtract from balance not payee. so this will still work even if They are in the same table? Thanks

The clue is in the error... i am guessing your original file was something like this: <Table> <FirstElement/> <SecondElement/> ... <LastElement/> </Table> Now i am guessing that you have a second table it looks something like this: <Table> <FirstElement/> <SecondElement/> ... <LastElement/> </Table> <Table> <FirstElement/> <SecondElement/> ... <LastElement/> </Table> The problem is the two Table nodes in the root, therefore you need to put in a single root element: <Tables> <Table> <FirstElement/> <SecondElement/> ... <LastElement/> </Table> <Table> <FirstElement/> <SecondElement/> ... <LastElement/> </Table> </Tables> Hope this helps Tom

hmm thats strange for some reason my post didn't come out as I wrote it - the xml example that I give should be like this ...

If your using a DataGrid, your grid should be sourced (DataSource property) to a DataSet object that contains the actual data your changing. When the changes are complete, you can have the DataSet object write the data out to an XML file. Checkout the docs on the DataSet class here[^] on MSDN. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome