Hi, I think, it's because of visual basic sripting (which is equal to VB 6) The "SET" is for instancing the fso object ofso (Filesystem object i guess) The on error resume next is a poor "try catch" implementation.

No problem. My only issue is that they keep asking the same question. "How do you block key presses". Thanks

You have assumed that I get the number as a decimal. I get all the values as a string and also their type. I also wanted to be able to default to "0.00 if no formatting was supplied as most client are fine with that format. 1. I parse to decimal as I get it as a string. 2. I default to 0.00 if no format is given 3. I apply the formatting 4. I remove the % if exists 5. I return it as a string since if will be written to a flat file. If the calling routine did the work and then I need this functionality some where else then I have to maintain multiple copies. Maintaining the code in a method allows me to for example default to 0.00 Besides at this point we are trying to impose our coding style on each other which is fruitless. I appreciate your ideas but you haven't raised any points that help me solve my problem any better.

Yes, I didn't what to do an ActiveX control but either way it is a client side solution. thanks for your input.

Thanks, you hit the nail on the head. I didn't realize that there was a domino effect going on.

Glad to be of service.

Thanks for your reply. It turns out that the problem was related to two different sets of similar classes. The code was using some objects from one set of classes and some from the other. The generated proxy code was all messed up thus confusing the client. Once we removed the duplicate (proof of concept) set of classes everything worked as expected.

Sounds easy but, I am having troubles. I can't seem to get this to work. How do you load an exe in the shadow cache? As in the case of .net Reflector I am trying to solve this using a single exe.

Thanks I will have a look.

Thanks for all the input. I need to put some serious thought into all this with a fresh mind.

Yes, I ended up trying some thimg very similardo { bytesRead = sock.Receive(byReceive, byReceive.Length, 0); totalRead += bytesRead; Thread.Sleep(100); strRetPage = strRetPage + Encoding.ASCII.GetString(byReceive, 0, bytesRead); } while( sock.Available > 0 ); Now the problem is that without the Sleep it reads the socket once and bails out. Another problem is that 10% of the time the socket claims to be empty and receives nothing. I have little hair left to pull out :) -- modified at 21:17 Thursday 22nd December, 2005

I used a combination of both tips ThreadStart method1 = new ThreadStart(DoRequests); AsyncCallback callback = new AsyncCallback(MyCallbackFunction); method1.BeginInvoke(callback, null); `` void DoRequests() { RequestVehicles(); RequestCustomers(); RequestServiceSales(); } `` void MyCallbackFunction(IAsyncResult result) { if( result.IsCompleted ) { // All data received add to database or whatever } } Thanks All

Thanks for the information. I don't believe it's over a few bucks, I believe he has two motivations. 1. He is from a non-Microsoft background... and he doesn't want to use ISS any version on any machine. 2. He wants to find a way for the client to send info directly to our application with out a middle man or web server. I am with you. Why reinvent the wheel. I will look at the remoting to make our point to him. Cheers

Thanks I'll have a look

Then the data will be sent as a request to the php page. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

Take a look at the MSDN docs for the Socket[^] class and its members. They provide many code examples which should give you a starting point. www.troschuetz.de

Well I ended up doing the following. When I used string as the return value I was only getting the first chuck of data and not the rest. IntPtr icy = BASS_StreamGetTags( radioChan, BASS_TAG_ICY ); byte[] bytetag = new byte[512]; if (icy != IntPtr.Zero) { Marshal.Copy(icy, bytetag, 0, bytetag.Length); } ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding( ); string constructedString = encoding.GetString(bytetag); if (constructedString != string.Empty) { string tokenizer = "\x00\0"; string[] token = constructedString.Split( tokenizer.ToCharArray(), 13 ); } Thanks for your help