I'm sorry about that last line: This procedure seems to be not supported by VB.net, anybody has an know/idea on how will I do this in VB6.0? This procedure seems to be not supported by VB.net, anybody has an know/idea on how will I do this in VB.NET? i thing he searched in vb.net _____________________ Proud to be Albanian _____________________

Are you talking about a dialog in the Visual Studio designer for setting the properties of a Connection object? No, you can't get to it during the install. You have to provide some interface for this yourself. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

thanks i'll look into it

This is a well known behavior. If you leave the output window visible all the other windows behave as expected when auto hide is enabled.

It worked, thanks a lot!!