Errm - no it doesn't. There's no guarantee that your service will be running when windows is shut down. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Try making a bitmap that is all one colour and setting it as the background image for your panel. Then add the following code to the form_Load event Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap)pnlBackground.BackgroundImage; bitmap.MakeTransparent(bitmap.GetPixel(1, 1)); TransparencyKey = BackColor; You may also need to start the form minimized and then do WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal; I don't know why but sometimes this is the case. Cheers Kev

What do you mean - show one at a time ? You can have a main window that spawns form1, and when form1 closes, spawns form2. Or you can have Form1 the main window, and a next button that hides form1 and shows form2. It's hard to say, without knowing more specifics. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Why not just call str.ToUpper();? Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | WinMacro

You can use .NET reflection capacities. Recently I find an interesting project in C# called Purple#, the programer uses dlls like plugins, for example if you can render in D3D use D3D.dll, or OGL.dll for OpenGL. This Dlls implementes same interfaces. This is the URL: http://www.bunnz.com[^]

My requirement is to have multiple .Net dlls, which has similar functionalities exposed (so that I can expose functions of same signature). One of these dlls should be loaded at runtime based on user's selection of dll file name. In effect I need to support my application in such a way that, even after initial deployment, I will be able to deploy additional dlls (additional dlls alone will be separately deployed), which user can select at runtime. Shashidhar

I depends entirely on what the server application is expecting. What kind of connection is the server expecting? RPC? Socket? What port number? Without knowing the details of the server, it's impossible to tell you what to do... RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome