You can load the document into an XmlDocument class (Load method) and then start adding XmlDocumentFragment's as children to the various XmlNode's inside the XmlDocument. Once you've got the document modified, then you could save it out using the Save method. I, for one, do not think the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. -David St. Hubbins

Image.Save() method. Mazy You're face to face, With the man who sold the world - David Bowie

This really is an application-specific problem. Explorer's ListView (the common control 6 ListVew32) uses a system image list and many, many other things to query files type handlers for a certain interface (IThumbnailCapture) which returns an image that it stores in a cache (in this case, a hidden system file named thumbs.db). For your application, you could do something similar, although using the default controls leave much to be desired (not everything from Windows' common controls is wrapped in the .NET equivalents). Get thumbnails for your ListViewItems, add them to the ListView's LargeImageList property, and then set the appropriate ListViewItems' ImageIndex property to the index in which the thumbnail was inserted. In effect, these become the icons for the ListViewItems. Unfortunately, if you want the thumbnail view that Explorer boasts, it won't be an easy task. First, you must make sure your application is bound to common controls 6 (in .NET 1.1, call Application.EnableVisualStyles before calling Application.Run in your program's entry point, Main), or use a manifest file (see my article list for an article that describes it). Then you'll have to P/Invoke lots of Win32 native functions and override a lot of functonality. Not fun. :( I hope at least I gave you some idea of what Explorer does for the functionality you want. Again, though, it's really up to you about how to do it since you control the code in your app. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----