Well, you need to start with something. You already mentioned that you were starting with the current day. From there, Calendar gives you some useful tools to determine important things, like if the current year is a leap year (in which the last day of Feb. is the 29th), etc. Calendar won't do the work for you...it will just simplify the work. There is indeed an algorithm that needs to be written to calculate the series, and that I'll leave up to you. I just thought the Calendar class might help you with some of the odd cases (i.e. leap year), finding the last day of each month dynamically, etc.

Thanks - they both sound like good alternatives... I'll have to do a bit of research. At the moment I am just doing it very simply where I write an event to a table from the web site then a timer in the app checks the table for any new entries every minute... seems to work well for what I need so far.

Thanks Pete - I really appreciate the reply... it gives me somewhere to start at least. Cheers, Mike

IMHO, you might want to check out a couple of things: + Use Webdav to manage/edit the files. + Show the file contents at the client side in the Excel-like display, here you can might want to look for some custom grid controls supporting Excel-like style, then the client can edit in the web page and finally submit the changes to the server. + You can allow the user to open the Excel file on their box with the Excel application, then you can use an Excel add-in to capture the Save action to send the edited file to the server.

Glad to be of help :) So when do you think we'd be likely to see that forum being added? Cheers, Mike

I am surprised to see Left+Left and Top+Top maybe your coordinates are way off ? :) Luc Pattyn

Thanks - what I did in the end was read the file into an XMLDataDocument object instead of a class structure as it means I can use XPath/XQuery and also have the power of the DatatSet object as well. Once I created the schema file (by loading the XML file into VS2005 and choosing Create Schema from the XML menu) the code was simply as follows: Public Sub LoadXMLConfig() 'Read the XML configuration file dataDoc = New XmlDataDocument() dataDoc.DataSet.ReadXml(My.Settings.XMLConfigFile) End Sub Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else is wanting to do this sort of thing and comes across this thread. Mike

Thanks - can you give a little more detail though... how do I go about actually doing this?

This is proably an old thread now and past it's sell by date, but I did put an article in about drawing cell colours that may or may not help. Search the articles for 'Couluring and centering cells in datagridview' - Yes it contains a typo that got uploaded to the web! David Loring !! Keep Music Live !!

In case your problem is still there, you can have a look at the SelectAction property of each TreeNode that you have built.

I think Microsoft are still intending the main use of SQL Server Everywhere Edition to be as a subscriber to a replication publication, so I suspect that there won't be any improvement in the tools in that area. You can contact the SQL Server Everywhere team through their blog's Contact link at http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlservereverywhere/contact.aspx[^]. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Ok, that makes sense - I guess I didn't really think that it would get fired twice but it stands to reason I suppose since the first image is being de-selected that it would fire. I'm keeping with the double-click method now though as my client now prefers that over the single click anyway. Cheers, Mike

Hi nzmike, here is the solution of ur problem. Go according to the following path in ur PC. StartMenu-> Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ->Visual Studio Remote Tools -> Remote File Viewer. After this use the PPC2003 emulator and wait for connections. then from the ToolBar menu Import or Export the files in the particular folder. I think it will solve ur problem. Plz send me the reply. Thanks and Regards Gurbhej Kumar S/W ENGG.

I think Josh is right. I haven't seen any support in the Shell API to support Drag and Drop in the TaskBar. Of course, this may change in Vista... Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Use CryptoLicensing which can generate n-day trials and/or feature based licenses, allowing you to enable/disable certain functionality in your app.

Worked out what is was - I actually needed to set the sort mode of each column to "Automatic" rather than "Programmatic". Seems the latter mode is really only for managing the sort glyphs etc. Now the SortCompare event fires but I have a new problem which is to get numeric columns such as "Race Number" to sort by the value (not the string value) then by the race start date (which is a DateTime column). I was going to delete this post but thought I'd leave it there for anyone else that runs into the same problem. Mike

You're right of course - the problem here is that the clients have to enter the jobs *somewhere* and if they've already entered it in their own systems then they don't want to have to do it again for us. Anyway, after another conversation with my client we have agreed that we will forget the Excel thing (way too perilous) and request the users to supply us with an XML or CSV document - that way they can use the data already existing in their system(s) and we will (hopefully) get a properly structured "job" object which the web service or web page can parse and then create the URL to post to the hosted job site. Mike