All, thanks a plenty for your suggestions. I was away for a week and did not have accesss to internet. Regards, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality

Set parent dropdownlist property AutoPostBack = True. Set up an event handler for the parent dropdownlist in the ItemCreated event of the DataGrid. Write the event handler mentioned above. Private Sub DataGrid1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.ItemCreated If e.Item.ItemType = listitemtype.EditItem Then Dim d As DropDownList = e.Item.Cells(3).FindControl("ddlProtocol") 'must add event handler for this dropdownlist AddHandler d.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf DoDdlSelectedIndexChanged 'Get items to add to dropdownlist Dim List() as String = GetItemsForList() 'fill list d.Items.Add("Not Selected") For i As Integer = 0 To UBound(List) d.Items.Add(List(i)) Next End If End Sub Private Sub DoDdlSelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Dim ParentListValue As String ParentListValue= DirectCast(sender, DropDownList).SelectedValue Dim List() As String = GetChildListItems(ParentListValue) 'get a reference to the child dropdown (in 5th column of grid) Dim d As DropDownList = DirectCast(DirectCast(DirectCast(DirectCast(sender, DropDownList).Parent, TableCell).Parent, DataGridItem).Cells(4).FindControl("dropdownlist2"), DropDownList) d.Items.Clear() d.Items.Add("Not Selected") For j As Integer = 0 To UBound(List) d.Items.Add(List(j)) Next End Sub

alot of phrases change depending on what part of the country you are in and the context of usage. Also, many phrases and words fall out of use over time. I'd suggest googling on american slang phrases, colloquialismS, ETC. For current pop-culture slizzang check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/[^], my nizzle. BW The Biggest Loser "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

Thanks all for your answers. I have downloaded the same but the License comign with that doesnt allow me to use the app. :( thanks anyway for your help, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms

Rohit  Sinha wrote: Why can't people see India and the US IT industries as complementing/benefiting each other, instead of being rivals? The problem is that people's jobs and careers are on the line. Saying "we should be complementing/benefiting each other instead of being rivals" sounds a little bit like "let's play a friendly game of poker together - oh, and if you loose, you loose your job and health insurance. I hope you don't have a mortgage payment, car payment, or a family to take care of. And that degree you went to college for four years and spent $50,000 on will be worthless. Just a friendly game of poker." (I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying that when the stakes are that high, people's emotions are bound to get inflamed.) ------------------------------------------ The ousted but stubbornly non-dead leader reportedly released an audiotape this weekend, ending by calling on Iraqis to, quote, "resist the occupation in any way you can, from writing on walls, to boycotting, to demonstrating and taking up arms." adding, "you know, pretty much anything I used to kill you for." - The Daily Show

A single statement in SQL is atomic - either the entire operation performed by the statement is committed to the database, or none of it is. For example, if you execute an INSERT/SELECT (inserting multiple rows into the database), four rows are produced by the SELECT, and three rows could be inserted, but one causes a primary key violation, none of the four rows are inserted. If you need more than one statement to be performed atomically, you need a transaction.

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Is this Two SQL Server databases on the same server instance Two SQL Server databases on two different server instances Not SQL Server at all? If the first or second: You can reference any object in SQL Server (table, view, function) by a full name: _server_._database_._owner_._object_. The first three can be omitted when referencing an object in the same database as you're currently accessing; owner is typically only used to disambiguate where two users have an object with the same name, although functions require the owner part. The simplest syntax for referring to an object in another database on the same server - say you wanted to access the titles table in the pubs database is pubs..titles (note the two dots, signifying that the owner of titles has been omitted). If you want to refer to an object on another server, you need to set up a linked server, which you can do in Enterprise Manager, under Security > Linked Servers. I believe Access has the concept of foreign tables.

My dot-headed friends are busy writing software for peanuts so you whiners can lose your overpaid jobs and get something to whine about. Isn't this what you are scared about? That your protected and soft ass will have to get out in the sun and work it out like the rest? I had no intention of making this personal, but I am sick of your attitude. You are the one who started the shit about Indians. When you talk about my country, I do take it personally. Resentment about loss of jobs is one thing. Trying to take the piss at somebody else is another. If you are angry, go change things at your place. If the support for a product you use is provided by an Indian or someone else whose accent you can't understand, or whose religious beliefs or skin colour you can't tolerate, stop using the product. Give the company officials a piece of your mind. Tell them what to do with your wallet. Kill their CEO. Whatever. Don't take it out on the Indians. Or you will have to hear it from me. John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: dickhead See? I can ignore it when you insult me personally. Regards, Rohit Sinha Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

I think there is good one called Bopup Messenger at http://www.blabsoft.com/ it does not require any centralized server for queuing messages. Keep in mind that these apps may be using simply UDP servers so it is not a sure thing that messages will be delievered (no major dramas though). You can look into .NET or Java as these frameworks expose good libraries for doing such things. cheers, ES

For me, the best solution tends to be maintaining two data structures, an array or arraylist with the keys in the desired order, and a hashtable with the key-value pairs. You could easily devise data structures that combine the two, such as a hashtable where the list of keys is a linked list.

I voted you an five BECAUSE IT IS A FRICKIN' JOKE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! Sheesh! Talk about sheep following the herd! David Wulff Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped

Another really easy way is to just reinstall VSS. Sean Winstead

I would like to know how to extract bytes from a string. Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude" Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency(one Microsoft Research scholor)

You could also use Activator.CreateInstance. This is much simpler that using AppDomain.CreateInstance, especially if the "Employee" class is in the same assembly. It also returns an Object instance instead of an ObjectHandle.

I guess you will understand if you are getting calls from client every other half an hour.. just kidding, little busy Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude" Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency(one Microsoft Research scholor)

Daniel's right. In shops that have a SQL server already running alot of times they will use it as a middleman to provide this kind of functionality. There are other packages out there that do this but none I've seen integrate with Oracle real well. They are more like universal data transformation packages, struggling to stay platform independent. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396