Thanks Christian I was afraid that was the case

Reanalyse wrote: Smallest and fastest way Usually the two requirements go in the opposite direction. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

ConnectionStrings.com is a very useful resource.

Getting close I suspect the code is like WebRequest req; WebResponse resp; Uri myuri= new Uri(@"http://192.168.10.10/"); req = HttpWebRequest.Create(myuri); resp = req.GetResponse(); Using the System.Net Namespace

Thanks - I will look at invoke script I was not too lazy to google it, but found nothing straightforward fron the search :laugh:

Thanks I suspect that my trouble is that the dataset is "set" to a different XML schema that the file being loaded (a previous version of the XML file), hence ignoring the columns after the ones it "knows about". I suspect I will need to specifically load the schema, and save the schema as well as the data. Will try it out on Monday when I get back to the office

Reanalyse wrote: returnstring.Replace(@absolutefile,@fname); I don't know if it's a copy/paste error, but strings are immutable, so Replace doesn't actually doesn't modify the string, instead, it returns a new string with the replacements. returnstring = returnstring.Replace(...) should work fine. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

Think I have done it - a test will tell Right Click on the Deployment Project Select View Select Registry On [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] add key "SYSTEM" On [System] add key "CurrentControlSet" On [CurrentControlSet] add key "Control" On [Control] add key "Session Manager" On [Session Manager] add key "Environment" On [Environment] add keystring Variable Name and in it's properties add the value Hope this helps someone else

One thing to look at is the tnsnames.ora files. The ODT stuff creates a new set for 10g (separate from the ones for 9i etc.), and they may be different but the 10g version is sometimes the only one used after it is created. If the name resolutions of all your databases are not in the 10g version of tnsnames.ora, then you might consider merging the tnsnames.ora files. Another potential problem is that ODT also creates a sqlnet.ora file that works sort of like your hosts file (helps resolve server names). In my case, the sqlnet.ora file had incorrect domain information that was overriding what was in my tnsnames.ora file and causing server names not to resolve. After some fiddling with the file, I finally just deleted it, reasoning that it had not been there prior to ODT, and everything had worked fine anyway. Everything worked after that. Hope this helps. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...’

Solved the problem (oh for good error trapping reports) I needed to apps the table as well as the datatest to Crystal reports i.e. rpt1.SetDataSource(tcc_log1.Tables[1])not what was used.

Reanalyse wrote: imgPhoto.Width; //with is null when passed this way You need to add code to check if imgPhoto is null then, in which case, you have no image to scale and need to just return null. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Thanks for that When I try that code i.e. _____________________________________________________________________________ Graphics g1 = Graphics.FromImage(viewer1.Image); g1.DrawImage(dxfdefaultBox.Image, new Rectangle(1,1,400,300),new Rectangle(1,1,1000,1000),GraphicsUnit.Pixel); g1.Dispose(); _____________________________________________________________________________ I get a "An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentNullException' occurred in system.drawing.dll". viewer1.Image is stated as viewer1 does exist as a pictureBox on the form, and I can write directly to it through a device context -do you have any idea as to why it would appear as a null item in this use ? Thanks

No - sorry :( - was not able to easily do this. As this was for a work initiative I bought Cadlib from Woutware- the cost of my time was worth more that the purchase price. Regards

Reanalyse wrote: boolean came as a surprise Yeah, it's definately a trap. Reanalyse wrote: the code previously still will not work with the changes. To be honest, anything else I suggest will just be a stab in the dark. If it were me, I'd be trying to use the dll in C++, then if I got that to work successfully, I'd be trying to move it to VB.NET. If it was usable in C++ and hard to use in VB.NET, I'd wrap it in a C++ COM project, and call that from VB.NET. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++