As darklev pointed out, your base error is if you are storing your dates as a string. If you are using a database then you MUST use the date data type to store your data. If you persist in using a string to store the date your will never be free of the formating problem.

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pathak78 wrote: What is the complete process to read data and storing into a databse from any hardware device. Like so? (Pseudocode) do Read the data from the hardware's interface Append to your database until exit Failure is not an option - it's built right in.

this is different for every hardware device. normally the hardware device has an dll you can access (if the manufacterer wants you to), and also some documentation on how to use that dll I suggest you read that documentation, since every dll is different there is no global answer to you question

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Assuming it is the Internet Explorer web browser that you have embedded into your form/project, you can disable the right-click context menu by setting the WebBrowser property IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled to False. I hope this helps, Regards, Martin

Thanks for your ideas.

We'll need to know a lot more about your app before we can suggest anything. What else did you code do? Are you sure you're freeing all of your unmanaged resources? Are you doing any custom drawing of an graphics or controls? ... ... ... Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

The setup files made with Visual Studio are always really slow. I would suggest using a stand alone install creator, like: Install Creator (simple) or NSIS (advanced). These are always faster and more customizable.

Could you be more specific?

Hi, I have already tries this but there is one loose point. If a user not changed his system date and runs our software at the same date in which date it installed, No way to increase run days. Think about it and give me any more idea about this. Thanks for your reply.

When the application starts check the date of when the C:\Program Files\Your Application\ was created or better yet use Registry to store an installation date that is encrypted. Only your application will be able to de-crypt the install date.

The problem is that you are trying to convert a type Integer to type Date. Instead you should use this: Dim PDate As Date PDate = Today.Date PDate = Today.AddDays(5)

Well, you've got a bit of a problem. Just putting a ProgressBar on a form doesn't do anything. You have to update it with, well, progress. If you're using the File.Copy method, you'll never get that progress. It's a blocking call that doesn't report anything during the copy. In order to make a progress bar work, you have to copy the file yourself using file stream methods. You know...open a file read some of it, write that to another file. Well, that's where you update the ProgressBar. You get the size of the file first, start copying the file, track how much of the file you've copied and update the ProgressBar as you're copying the file. Like the others have said, you can even move the copy operation to another thread so your UI stays responsive. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic