Using javascript you can do this. Check the entered input is in the required format (by regular expression or so..). Alert the user if it is not. You can go for a javascript calendar control. That will be  helpful for the end user. *jaans

There is no equivilent in ADO.NET, it works in an entirely different way. Your best bet is to Google ADO.NET and read up on datareaders and datasets. Hope this helps Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd

http://www.asp.net/LEARN/videos a nice easy video for you to watch We are not a Code Charity

Google is not working there ?? :doh: :doh: Best Regards ----------------- Abhijit Jana Check Out My Latest Article Java.NET : Integration of Java and .NET[^] "Success is Journey it's not a destination"

Do you mean you want to move the data files for an existing database to a different location? Detach the database (right-click it in Management Studio or Enterprise Manager and click Detach), make a note of the security settings on the files, move them, check that the same users have permission to read and write the files, and then re-attach the database (this option is named Attach on the server's context menu). DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991

If the URL of the page containing the search result doesn't represent that page uniquely (i.e. you just populate the result on postback), then your only option to return to that page is to use the history in the browser to go back, so that the post data is resent to recreate the page. Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.