A value is returned in the eax/ax/al register. Because a one byte bool only has to zero out the register al (xor al, al). The high bits of the [e]ax register may be set to a non-zero value.

I would suggest looking at a UI toolkit such as http://www.extjs.com[^] or http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/[^] They use a combination of HTML/CSS/Javascript inside the browser. Then their controls talk to the web server via a communication object written in javascript which can use Http GET, Http POST, or SOAP web services (behind the scenes its using jQuery Ajax[^] to talk to the server). Google uses python on the backend. It's still using HTML/CSS/Javascript within the client. As for the server side code that talks to mysql you can use pretty much whatever. I would suggest PHP or Rails for the server side goop unless you already have experience in asp.net. Todd Smith

First: the wildchar '*' in SQL is '%' Second: you will have to provide the names of the columns (yes for all) with OR between - for example: DataRow[] Rows = table.Select(string.Format( "'Name LIKE '%{0}%' OR Phone LIKE '%{0}%'", searchTerm) );

You will need to install keyboard hook. Search google and/or codeproject for this term and you will find what you need. #region signature my articles #endregion

IIRC, change the sa password to something other than the default, then there isn't any good stealing the .mdf file...

If you really want to be slick and save some work you could create the table as a datatable first then use SqlServer Management Objects to create the table at run time based on your in memory datatable. This only works with Sql2005 and Express2005, but it really save time in the code and verifies that what you have in memory matches with the database. If you are interested: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DataTableToDataBase.asp[^] Yes, this is one of my articles( currently my only one as I have been swamped) but SMO has become a pet project of mine as I am fascinated by it. Take a look and see if it helps. Aaron _____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe

I'm well aware that during the process of learning one does not always find the best way at first and is happy to find a way that works anyhow. So my posting was not intended to criticize you. Just wanted to give you some pointers what can be optimized. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de