Thanks Christian. Seems like a bit of a roundabout way of doing it though. I ended up opting for a small function which simply compares the type to the list of existing types and does the conversion directly if it's a numeric type. NATHAN RIDLEY Web Application Developer email: snowdevil [@] gmail.com !! Are you a skilled ASP.Net programmer or web designer and would like to help bring the best new ASP.Net CMS (http://www.sprocketcms.com[^]) into the forefront of the ASP.Net community? Please contact me and let me know.

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Fair enough, good points. After more thought on the subject I possibly think I'm starting to agree with you. Just an idea thrown out there anyway. NATHAN RIDLEY Web Application Developer email: nathan @ netlab.com.au [remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]

I'm in Hobart and I work full time, and do some contract work on the side. I tend to quote on a job by job basis, rather than an hourly rate. The more a job interests me, the less I charge :-) Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

Hope it will work. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255707 Cheers, The Phantom.

Wow that NET.RIX control looks great! I think I'll go that way and save time. thanks :) NATHAN RIDLEY Web Application Developer email: nathan @ netlab.com.au [remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]

You're welcome! Regards, Jeff Varszegi EEEP!

If in the former case, then what I said definitely applies. In the latter case, it would be because browsers have default settings for certain colors, like page backgrounds. Old IE and Netscape used gray. If you didn't specify a white background, anyone with a non-white default color of white would see your page in a way you don't desire them to see it. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Thanks Mike, looks like it could exactly what I'm after! :) NATHAN RIDLEY Web Application Developer email: nathan @ netlab.com.au [remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]

Ours are even worse, travel agents :-D, you wouldn't believe some of the remarks/questions we get, especially from people who think they know computers ....

It's a weird problem, eh? The length of both arrays returned from GetBytes() is 4, so I think that it's actually the second-to-last line that's causing the problem with its length of 8. That code must be badly written in the current version of .NET: the second-to-last line above leaves the static stuff in Buffer somehow in an incorrect state, which is exposed by the subsequent call. Sorry I can't be of more help. Regards, Jeff Varszegi

Finding the article, editing the HTML and updating your zips has to be none regardless of how articles are updated. The only shortcuts are if you could edit the article directly (using the inbuilt editor) and submit it as if it were an unedited article, and have those edits remain as 'pending' until an editor can approve them. Certainly something we can look at doing. cheers, Chris Maunder

Your right I was talking about the arty thing on the left side. :-O

Never mind, I missed the parameter that specifies the DLL to create :P NATHAN RIDLEY Web Application Developer email: nathan @ netlab.com.au [remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]