ta, I am sure that there is a way to pass those values though another option that I have used before is to update a parm table with the values from the stored procedure and then kick off the SSIS package which reads the parm table. I hope that this helps Robert Ford

You can use the PropertyGrid component, which is basically a grid with Property-Value pairs. It can be initialized like this: propertyGrid1.SelectedObject = some_object; Regards, Lev

hi greeg thanks for that, that worked out just fine, what I actually wanted to do was control from within the PictureBoxArray.cs and not from the button_Click, but I just did a little method in there and it ow swaps the colours depending on which one you click on which is perfect for me. thank you again tim

cheers tim that helped a lot,i've been looking at this (migration overall) for about a week now and i can't really see the trees for the woods anymore, my brains withered. ta tim

hi originally I wss using UTF8 but the js wasnt coping and then I realised chars were missing from the c# end (anything over 127 or so) which I needed (long story....;p) anyway to cut it short I've encoded the js to UTF8 and the c# and then both to base64, used StringBuilder to create my return string and both the js in the flash and c# are producing identical results which is what I needed, I'll post it up here at some point as it may be of interest to someone. thanks for all your help/pointers guffa, very much appreciated. tim

I guess you could use winforms panels with the background set to transparent? Or are you looking for more of a docking/pallette style solution like Visual Studio? Mark Churchill Director Dunn & Churchill

hi brady sorry, i suppose that might have helped....doh! SplitContainer controls sound exactly like the thing I was after, I knew there'd be something rather than me bodging in some sort of tawdry effort that only kind of half works. thanks for the pointer tim

excellent, that does the trick nicely. thanks to you both

hi yeah i ended up just trying to get it do anything, its original text value is label1 and should change to foo. the message popups were just to see what was happening

hi mark the sql is identical, the way its handled in the call for the class is *slightly* different but the problem wasnt there which is why i was getting so confused by it, i thought it was originally but after getting rid of everything bar what was left in the example in my post and still having the problem, just kinda flummoxed me. the sql doesnt fail (it inserts a record) it just wasnt picking up the last insert id and returning it, guffa's solution to split the queries into two works fine, but i still dont see what would cause it or why it would fail after getting to 65535 as theres nothing that defines a smallint or restricts it to that. v odd me thinks thanks tim