:-DIn my understanding, let's say you have an employee database, and you want to store employee pictures as well in the database along with the name and other information. In that case you may want to store it as a bit map. Also alot of business are still receiving documents as a hard copy, and to keep the paper trail at one place, they scan the document and upload it to the Database. This is just few of the many reasons why bit map, and files are inserted to DB. Hope this helps Ruchi

;)Leppie, thanks for your help. You seem to know your stuff pretty well. I think I know what is needed to accomplish my task. I am currently trying to access the web service but, I keep getting "Access Denied". I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out. Once I fix this problem, I believe that I can refresh portions of my web page at least 1 every 5 seconds.:) Thanks, Tom

:)Thanks for the answer. This is what I have been looking for. Your help is greatly appreciated.:) Tom

After many hours of banging my head, I finally realized that the interface should of belonged to the class Entry point. Once I did this, I was able to do what I wanted. Here is a tidbit of the code I used. using System; using System.Runtime.Remoting; using System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels; using System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp; using RemoteInterfacecls; //Code not proviced at this time using System.Runtime.Serialization; namespace RemotingInterfaceServer { public class dataStuff { public byte [] mystuff; } public class EntryPoint { dataStuff dS = new dataStuff(); public static void Main(string[] args) { //Here is the initializaton ds.mystuff = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("This is a test"); TcpServerChannel channel = new TcpServerChannel(2566); ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(channel); RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType( typeof(RemoteExample), "RemoteExample", WellKnownObjectMode.SingleCall); System.Console.WriteLine("Hit Key to Exit"); System.Console.ReadLine(); } public class RemoteExample : MarshalByRefObject, IRemoteExample { public RemotingExample() { Console.WriteLine("Constructor Called "); } public IByteArray GetByteArray() { ByteArray byteArray; byteArray.bytesRead = dS.mystuff; return (IByteArray)byteArray; } } [Serializable] public class ByteArray : MarshalByRefObject, IByteArray { public byte [] bytesRead; } } } Tom McDaniel