Thanks Pete, That was the issue. The world is spinning in greased grooves once again. Experience is know you've made this mistake before

I downloaded and installed dotnetfx2 but none of the dll's are showing up in the references list (add references to a project) in the IDE. I have xp sp2 and visual studio 2003 Any suggestions?:confused: Steve S.

Couple of thoughts: 1 to provide a consitant interface, 2 so I had one area in code that would respond to all of the tabs responses, and 3 to cut down on the amount of overhead used for controls. Linking the events sounds like a good alternate solution. Thanks -SS-

I could do that. The situation is that I have multiple tab controls for different functions and the submit button is for the associated tab control. Maybe a better idea is to have a submit button on each tabs client area because that is the information that is to be processed. Is there a way to make the same button appear, drawn, on the tabs client area when the tab is selected?

I have a tab control and on that control I want to have a submit button displayed regardless of the tab I choose - the submit button is always on top in the client area. Please point me to documents / example of doing this. Steve

I need to run zip a file(s) using winzip from within my c# application. Can anyone point me to documentation / example of how to accomplish that. Thanks in advance - SS -

I want to check the input to a text box is numeric (e.g., mmddyyyy). Is there a command for this? sas