SilimSayo wrote: but you're not getting my point at all You are quite correct in that, I was only focusing on the question of the OP, not on a general discussion of how the SQL was going to interpret the statement. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

the caracters are 1500011600190121KLM090034557908K0000000000000098 so these caracters are builded as barcode on different way in my application rather than on an application that I downloaded it as a demo that uses also IDAutomation(CODE 128). Qendro

thanks a lot! It was the perfect example for my example Qendro

ValueMember sets where to get the value from. Value is the value that was set. I think you need to do some reading on VB.NET, this is pretty straightforward stuff. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

There's always Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.