you are welcome... example which i posted before to you it's in VS2005 "My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." Socrates

you must think about how this will logically work then...... Toggle between the button.enabled property. if you want the button disabled you say button1.enabled = false; if you want the button enabled you say button1.enabled = true; That should u going dude.

try { DateTime time = DateTime.TryParse(text); } catch(FormatException) { // oops, error } regards