How are you trying to parse it? If you are reading direct from the Excel cell then chances are the content is simply a binary number. Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

Years ago I had a server (WindowsNT) with 8 serial ports installed, one of them being connected to a modem. The fax software required that I assign a specific port to use; it would not allocate ports even if I had modems connected to several different ports. Since then I've had Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 Servers, and I don't recall any of them supporting modem pooling. That doesn't imply necessarily that they don't - I've never really looked for it before. But I think I would have seen some mention of it by now. The RRAS function would do this, but not the built-in Fax function. If you'd like to tackle this as a project, it would make for an interesting article! "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

Without seeing the relevant code, and only relevant code please, it is almost impossible to give a sensible answer. Except to say that adding a column to the DataGridView, does NOT add a column to the underlying DataTable/DataSet, which may be where the null reference exception is occurring. Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

Hi, the basic idea is: - long computations (including waiting on a database or a network...) belong in a separate thread, which could be a BackgroundWorker or a ThreadPool thread or a real Thread instance. - manipulations of Controls (including Forms and DataGrids) need to run on the main thread You can organize that with BackgroundWorkers, as they have two events (Progress and Completed) that always will run on the main thread; or you can get similar results with Control.Invoke I have a little article[^] that explains more. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

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Hi, one way to overcome the problem you don't get events when a file creation/update is completed is this, assuming you're in charge of the producer's code: - look for "event files", recognized by a specific characteristic, maybe a new file extension .EVE - create/update your data files in any way you see fit; when done, create a short .EVE file containing the full path of the data file. Such file will be written atomically since it fits in a single sector. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

Saamir wrote: I couldn't implement your code that is extremely vague and uninformative, no one can help you based on this. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem.

no pun intended ;) Yusuf May I help you?

Saamir wrote: Is there something I am missing that would refresh the form on load everytime. How about the form's load event, or maybe a timer Check out the CodeProject forum Guidelines[^]

Yep, and just about all the examples I've seen have the cofde to do BOTH sides of the operation, save and retrieve. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

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That i'm not sure about. Maybe try handling the Closing event on the parent form, and then put in a breakpoint and look at the call stack. it'd be interesting to see what methods were called right before the main form closes.

Thank you Davey, I decided to go with a timer that calls the performclick event. Thanks S Sameer

no I haven't, it required me to change quite a bit of my code so I have left it for now. I wish there was an easier solution :) Sameer

no the service is installed on the server. It has run and currently runs great with no problems. What do you mean by coding horror? Also, the attached code is called by the timer. Here is the full function. private void StartTimerAndServerSocket() { Writ2ErrLog("Service Timer Initialized"); string sErr="Application is ready for processing"; try { Writ2ErrLog(sErr); m_tMonitor = new TD.Timer(new TD.TimerCallback(MonitorFunc),1, 0,45000);//45 sec if(m_sServerAddr==string.Empty) { m_sServerAddr=Dns.GetHostName(); } if(m_nPort==-1) { m_nPort=1024; } IPHostEntry hostEntry=Dns.Resolve(m_sServerAddr); IPAddress ipAddress = hostEntry.AddressList[0]; IPEndPoint ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ipAddress,m_nPort); m_svSocket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,SocketType.Stream,ProtocolType.Tcp); m_svSocket.Bind(ipEndPoint); m_svSocket.Listen(10); while(true) { Socket rtSocket=m_svSocket.Accept(); if(rtSocket.Connected) { TD.WaitCallback myCallBack = new TD.WaitCallback(ProcessClientRequest); TD.ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(myCallBack,rtSocket); } } } catch(Exception ex) { m_svSocket.Close(); m_tMonitor.Dispose(); sErr="Start Error " + ex.Message; } finally { if(sErr!=string.Empty) { Debug.WriteLine(sErr); Writ2ErrLog(sErr); } } Sameer

Sameer... I am using .net 1.1 datasets and our produciton application is having the EXACT same issue. Stack overflow seemly triggered by a select on a large dataset table. I don't know a strict solution yet. I may have to re-arch my appliation to eliminate this process.

thank you and I appreciate your help. Sameer