I use Retrospect (not free) for automatic daily backups. I have 2 backup sets alternating each day so even if the file corrupts, I still can get to the one from the day before. These backups go to usb hard disk, then once in a while I burn a copy to DVD-RW disks and store it off site. I also use Subversion with TortoiseSVN (both free) for source code control so I can quickly compare versions and such. Good luck recovering your changes. Scott

Phil, You can also try using the Marshal static functions. For example: string s = new string(" ", 2048); IntPtr ptr = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(s); Then you can pass ptr to your method. There are other helpful functions available in Marshal that you may be able to use such as: Marshal.AllocHGlobal, or Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi. Regards, Rudy.

Hmmm, well you are right, I guess I did misread what ths property was for. However, setting this property to true still has no effect. I have two controls on a form side by side. One with autoword select = true and one with autoselect=false. As far as I can tell both controls behave the exact same way. I can select a single letter, a couple letters, or the entire word with my mouse. But as usual I'm getting distracted from the goal I was tyring to achieve which was selecting the text as soon as the control gain focus. It's just frustrating when you try and experiment and various properties seem to have no effect. About the only thing I can conclude is perhaps if the RichTextBox is stretched out and contains a sentence rather than a single word it works. I don't know *sigh*

Ah whew...I looked again, thanks. Obviously this was the first thing I did when I first took this on. Perhaps my google skills need polish, I don't know. Everything I found seemed to be pointed at the new IPC remoting stuff that's in .NET 2.0. I Found an example on codeguru and it does compile and run with my 1.1, so I'm golden. It's buried inside InterProcessCommunication stuff. I guess since my C++ and MFC experience all had it built into CreateFile and it was right up front and as basic as opening a file I assumed the CSharp would be there too (obviously it isn't) Thanks for the gentle shove in the right direction :) Just what I needed.

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Oops, I wrote it wrong while trying to trim away all the fat and make it legible. What I'm trying should have read: Object *booltest = mo->get_Item("IPAddress"); if(booltest) { DO STUFF } //or if(booltest->Equals(true)) { DO STUFF } //and about fifteen other attempts all of which aren't quite right Basically the entire mo->GetItem("IPEnabled") was originally inside my if statement (like you wrote) and I was (trying to) break it down into pieces to determine where I was going wrong. Thank you for telling me I'm totally absurd. I was really hoping someone like you would tell me how stupid I am even though I admitted right up front that this is a pretty embarrassing question. I think you did point me to the key statement though. I haven't figured out the whole box/unbox theory yet. For that I do thank you sincerely. Less Phrustrated Phil

Actually, it kind of works and it kind of doesn't. I've been playing all day and have got the dialog resource in, but it's different. With VC6 you could open the other rc file, hit copy then paste directly into the resource tab in class wizard. With the new VC.NET all I've been able to figure out so far is open both old and new rc file in the editor and do a copy/paste. The bad part is I still haven't been able to figure out how to link the cpp and h files with that dialog resource. If you run their wizard and tell it to use the old cpp and h files it just tacks on a new class at the bottom of each file resulting in two sets of implementations and declarations. Obviously there has to be a way to do it, but it sure is kicking my behind :( PAC