hi, see in the registery how the DSN is registered and in your install application, add the registery entries to your install application....... hope this helps ya, yaron

Frank, Would you happen to be able to send that source to me too, or post it on The Code Project for everybody to benefit from please! Thank you very much! Brian Hart

Well, a simple answer for you (I guess ) with a big effect for me. Thanks for your help! Matthias

I did some brief testing using a debug build. I discovered that the Sprintf() took about 4100 ticks (difference between GetTickCount() calls before and after for loop) to do 1 million iterations. Using a technique similar to what was described in other replies took about 1500 ticks. Here is code snippet of faster technique. // preset to required zero characters memset(szBuffer, 48, 6); // convert your number to ascii string _itoa(iValue, szValue, 10); // get length of string iLength = lstrlen(szValue); // copy value into zero buffered string // starting at correct offset to leave leading zeroes lstrcpy(&szBuffer[6 - iLength], szValue); If you inlined the source for each of the functions, it would be even faster.

Hi, This won't answer your question but why don't you just use the STL. The STL has some very efficient sorting algorithms that I think you will find useful. If you don't know STL, I think you can get up to speed in just a few hours. If I had to do anything like this I would prefer the STL over the MFC collections. sayed

Like Dimitry says most things already exist, True like the statement when you loose something "it will be in the last place you look" Most of us here are "software engineers" and build things. For something truly new you need to be a "software inventor", Thus you first create a new idea, "successful software inventors can make real big bucks". Because they are the first to implement totally new ideas. So most of us are just trying to build better mouse traps. Anyhow Mathias if you can't come up with a totally new idea that'll be useful you have two alternatives. a.) Build a useless new idea tool, (and somebody else might find a use for it.) b.) Do what most of us have to do, analyze all the other tools in your chosen category. And work out how to, design them better, generally this involves the user-interfaces, as the backend can't be improved for compareable difference, with most hardware today. Unless it's a transaction-server or tool that really utilizes the hardware well. Regardz

Stripping tags is easy - it's the formatted text output that is the trick. For instance, <h1>Heading</h1>This is a paragraph Should come out:   Heading   This is a paragraph but by stripping tags we'd get   Heading This is a paragraph I'll check out the DOM as per Eriks suggestion

Have you been sneaking a look at my "to do" list? :)

Add the extended style WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW to your Mainframe window. I think that'll do it.

thx.