I guess you could use a LinearGradientBrush for this. Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...

You could use a BinaryFormatter to serialize your data into a byte array and then just send it. Here is an example: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4abbf6k0.aspx Just use a MemoryStream instead of a FileStream regards

hehe this is where it gets complicated. i haven't done much with threads at all but i also came across this problem when writing a "popup" class. as you may have noticed you were starting another thread for the listening method. the thread where all the controls remain to is the one where you started the second thread from. sounds complicated but it isn't. now you have to communicate from one thread to another. you can do this by using the invoke procedure of the control. i just will give you the sourcecode and you will see what will happen :) instead of using the regular add method of the listbox you have to use the listboxs "invoke" method. Put this code somewhere inside your class: private delegate void AddTextInvoker(string textToAdd); Now replace the line of code where you want to add an item to the listbox with these lines: object [] invokeParams = {"TextOrItemToAdd"}; lbReceived.Invoke(new AddTextInvoker(AddTextToListbox), invokeParams); finally add the "AddTextToListbox" method to your class and make it add an item to the listbox: private void AddTextToListbox(string textToAdd) { lbReceived.Add(textToAdd); } but be careful with invoking anything. it happened to me that one thread disposed a control and another one tried to change on of its properties - that will result in an exception. you should try to make yourself more familiar with threads since my knowledge ends here too. maybe someone else could tell you WHY its not possible to do a cross-thread operation and stuff - for now you should be able to solve your problem :P // edit: sorry code snippet did not work because it just was wrong - now it should work :P -- modified at 9:00 Tuesday 10th October, 2006

I always keep track of the connected client sockets, so that I can disconnect them at will, for example to restart the server in a correct manner. If you keep track of the connected client sockets, you can simple get the size of the list which gives you the number of connected clients. WM. What about weapons of mass-construction?

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And no one has suggested it yet... but this might help: Button btn = (Button) sender; MessageBox.Show(btn.Text); // Display button's caption I hope this helps! -- LuisR Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!

Hopefully I got it right that you want to move the mouse cursor to a position, whose coordinates are given in two textboxes. The following code snippet assumes that only numbers can be entered into both textboxes, cause otherwise the Parse methods might throw an exception. int x = int.Parse(textBoxX.Text); int y = int.Parse(textBoxY.Text); System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = new Point(x, y); www.troschuetz.de

It was an intutition in the previous message. I have tried it with IIS and it worked. Oh no , you ask for only-FTP server?

If your OleDb code work then as you did last time, comboBox1.DataSource = table; combobox1.DisplayMember = columnNameYouWantToListInTheTable as string; should work. I dont know what the column name is. Try some possibilities. Sorry for incomplete help.

The underdog wrote: is it possible to use a online database in a local application? What do you mean by "online database"? Surely a database has to be online in order to work? Do you mean "remote"? (as in on another machine). If so, then do you mean within the same network or across the internet? The underdog wrote: how? Assuming you mean remote then the connection string will usually give the name of the server, or the location of the database. I would thing that file-bases databases (like Access) wouldn't work too well in the this scenario. But I've never tried other than a few connections in a LAN environment. The underdog wrote: Is it also possible to use a My SQL database in a progam and again [if] yes [then] how? Yes, You can use the MySql Connector[^] for .NET. Or you can use the ODBC driver and connect via that. Do you want to know more?