That depends on the quality of code in the custom controls. But, all thing being equal, there isn't any difference at all since both sets of controls will ultimately derive from the same base class, Control. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

just call in the Page_Load event handler Response.Clear(), then write all you want. :)

You can try applying a regex that replaces everything between < and > with empty strings. There is also this[^] SGML parser which you can use to extract the text. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

One possible way to minimize use of the word object model would be to only invoke it to save the word doc in xml format, and then parse the MSxml into your format. If words xml output is as noxious as it's html it might end up being more work, I've never tried so I wouldn't know.

methodincharge wrote: Also I read that CDATA only makes the problem less likely (IE: if the string is terminated by ])> it will cause the section to end) Yes, if you manage that three character set in your image, then you'd have a problem. The changes of that are 255*255*255 to 1, as far as I can see. methodincharge wrote: I figure that if I'm going to be using this just for images the liklihood of that would be pretty high Why ? methodincharge wrote: How would I go about doing that if I am using SOAP to transport the data to and from the web service? Put the CDATA tags around the image data before passing it to the SOAP layer, and remove them at the other end. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

I'd definately use FTP to transfer files, unless there are firewall issues. Just send your client an FTP address, and it FTP's back for it's file. That's what FTP is for, and converting a file into XML is going to make it bigger. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Oh, I see. You can still do it with a repeater, you could do it by creating three tables, one for each category, and then binding the dataset to the repeater and accessing the three tables in the data items for the three rows. I still lean towards a stored procedure that returns one table with three rows, based on category. Then the presentation layer is easy, as it should be. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Thanks for the code. It all works ALMOST the exact way I wanted it to. For some reason if I tried to save the last active window (IE on return to the app, either make the main window the active one or the message window the active one depending on which was activated last) it would go back and forth between the two and then settle on the main window. So instead I just brought the messagewindow in front upon returning to the app (although I might change it around). Thanks again for the Time suggestion, I doubt I would have thought of it.

I have worked around the WMP playlist but, as suggested above, maintaining the events externally. I places buttons on top of the WMP control to simulate the Next and Prev buttons (viz. screenshot, extract, overlay). If anyone is interested in the code I'd be happy to share. I have the next/prev working as well as auto-playing the next file in the playlist. Going to be working on randomizing playback soon.

I believe that you are running into a feature of the system. When your software takes longer to read the communications from the socket, the messages will pile up. At the next read, you can then retrieve (with one call) all the messages which have been sent. So, your network protocol needs some method of delineating between the end of one message and the beginning of another. Once you have that arranged, you ought to be free of this problem. John "You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek.

methodincharge wrote: Is there someone I have to do LOL - I assume this is a typo. I would still recommend changing the namespace name. Other than that, it's a strange problem, I'd expect it to work that out for you. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

You don't need to close the NetworkStream after closing the StreamWriter, the StreamWriter does it for you. MSDN says "Closes the current StreamWriter and the underlying stream". And closing the StreamWriter flushes it, so you don't need to Flush ``before `Close` In short, all you need is streamWriter.Close(); And you must close it both on the client and the server, each end creates some resources that must be released by calling `Close`. Regards Senthil _____________________________ [My Blog](http://blogs.wdevs.com/senthilkumar) | [My Articles](http://www.codeproject.com/script/articles/list_articles.asp?userid=492196) | [WinMacro](http://geocities.com/win_macro)``

Well I'm assuming that if you have the means of installing the software on the server you also have the means of reading a log file too. :-) The trick is of course is that is that there are multiple processes loging events so you have to do some heavy filtering to get any meaning out of it.

For some reason if I do the BinaryReader it says it's in use by another process??

Thanks, works beautifully, I figured the problem was the Async sending but I wasn't sure.

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