Hi, your error code is 0x80004005 (E_FAIL), its most likely cause is a bad image file. Assuming the exact same code runs fine with other image file types, I suggest you try another GIF file (preferably originating from a completely different source). :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] this weeks tips: - make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/... - show exceptions with ToString() to see all information - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

I found this article which may interest you: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q303528[^] I wrote a utility to compact an access database using some code that I had found somewhere. I referenced Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library Com object and then used the following code: Private Sub CompactFile(ByVal strFileIn As String, ByVal strFileOut As String) Try 'First check the file u want to compact exists or not If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(strFileIn) Then Dim objDAO As New DAO.DBEngine() 'CompactDatabase has two parameters, creates a copy of compact DB at the Destination path objDAO.CompactDatabase(strFileIn, strFileOut) End If Catch ex As Exception MsgBox("Compact File Error: " & ex.Message) End Try End Sub Note: This method will save the compacted database under a new name. If you want it to appear that the file itself was compacted you will have to add code to delete the exising db and replace it with the compacted one after you perform this method. Hope this helps.

Thanks Johan, .Accept or Reject nothing was working. Finally someone like you suggested me to use e of Eventargs e.Cancel That worked out. With that the event procedure is cancelled and you are back to normal. Nothing else is required. Reg. Update, now finally things have come to track. Actually the code was proper & well. But, I didn't select Copy if newer of CoptToOutpurDir property of Database. That was Copy Always which was creating all the problem. That point someow clicked in my mind last night & things got working. Thanks a lot for all the effort and interest. I really appreciate your help and guidance. Thanks Terry

i agree with colin. but if you really want to do that... i think there's no way to extend the maxlength for richtextbox. instead make use of a label as what i know there's no specific maxlength for that.

sorry that was just a typing mistake in the message and I did use it the same way before. my problem is when I search for "\Par" using whole word option it finds it; and also finds what ever that looks like this "{\Par"(even if I did use the whole word option it doesn't find; just! "\Par". If it is "a\Par" it doesn't matter but if it is other then numbers or alphabetic characters; it just finds it and gets rid of it). thanx for u'r help anyway.

Hi, Perhaps you have found this article by yourself already, but here it is anyway: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/VBFileAssociation.asp Otherwise searching google with this subject will get you loads of info: vb.net file type association Good luck, Johan My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

You posted this to me, when you should have posted it to the original question. I checked your link and it only talks about the registery. It doesn't talk about the original question which is refreshing the desktop. Ben

thank you very very much.

Standard question #3: What does your code look like? --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

Care to post it? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

A little Google goes a long way. Look what I found just by typing in "insert picture into richtextbox vb.net[^]". A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

No, they don't. Putting a bunch of them in your posts turns your post into unreadable noise. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

You haven't provided enough information for anyone to answer your question. --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

You can use the System.Net.Mail class. Works very well.

NANCO wrote: I don't know; I just got the code, it doesn't work. Getting code off the web is fine, so long as you're able to understand it. If you can't understand it, then you should stop and work through a book, so you know enough VB.NET that the web helps you with syntax, not with writing code. To store a color, you'd probably store the red, green and blue components as integers, then you'd use those to create a color again. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

I found a way, thanks anyway.:cool:

thanks, but; can you give me a complete example on how to save and retrieve.:)

Check out this UpSizing article: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/dasanka/upsizingtheaccessdatabaseintothesqlserver.asp[^] Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

Christian Graus wrote: I'm not sure if a font is serialisable, itself. It could be. Even thought the class is tagged Serializable, it's not do-able using the standard XML Serializer methods. You have to write your own Serialization wrapper to get it to work. There's an example in the "Community Content" section on it on this page[^]. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic