i figured out that i also needed to run regsvr32 /n xx.dll on it.

after re-reading the thread i guess i need a system hook... the application need to catch changes to the cap/num/scroll locks from anywhere within windows currently i poll the keyboard state every few seconds... to verify their values

thanks! i suppose the timestamp thing is the best approach. i cannot have possible simultaneous edits work akwardly, i don't there to be lost data. So i guess i will have something akin to: On Edit screen load: Show current record contents, grab "last edited" On save: check "last edited" and if it matches: apply update, otherwise handle the problem, (probably best would be to show both sets of data)

You can create a new Bitmap from a file path or a Stream. Use Graphics.FromImage to get a Graphics object for that image. Keep in mind, however, that GIFs are indexed images and require a palette. If you're using different colors other than what exists in teh palette, you'll need to generate a new palette from the existing one and add the colors you need. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Could you give us an example of one slow search, and what indexes you have in place.

not too sure, i am a runtime drawing newbie :) first i "Clear" the background with Graphics.Clear(Color.Transparent) then i draw a line and two strings on the graphic using Graphics.DrawString and Graphics.DrawLine i just noticed the quality of the image descreased significantly when saving as a png with transparency, instead of a jpg... i find it particularily odd that the transparent pngs that are generated are not compatible with internet explorer... i thought that the low quality pngs (8bpp) with transparency worked... yet there is not PixelFormat.8bpp that isn't indexed... and you can't draw on indexed bitmaps using Graphics the purpose of this project was just to test out the drawing features and try to make something useful... you can test it out... it takes the string of a request and parses it into values of a "fraction" which it then draws the first part is a hex colour, preceded by the pound indicator... or "p" in this instance. then the font size in pixel format then the numerator and the denominator, with a final terminating comma. Example for best results use a browser that supports transparent pngs if you want to take a look at the code Here (anyone know of a utility for automatically formating in VS.NET style, for the web/html?)

thanks now only if that worked semi-accuratly for height :)

Even if you disable ViewState, the hidden element will still be output to the page and will include the control tree. The only way to completely get rid of the elment is to not use server-side forms ( ). Marcie http://www.codeproject.com

thanks! works great!

any thoughts on the size of the data set i should use? a typical update would probably be around 15-40k new/modified entries in [user_history] perhaps i will try using a 1/4 of the system memory to start... thanks, wether or not its will be an improvement will be interesting, as i still need a lot of if-exists... i guess it depends what factor is causing the cpu to remain at high load... :) i also have the option of switching the server... from a single Athlon XP 2500+ to a dual 900Mhz Xeon... i think staying with this machine is for the best...

ok, thanks... but this application is the sole purpose of the server, so i am not worried about cross application security, especially since i am only allowing reading

You keep reading the wrong things. Did you try reading the documentation for the NumberFormatInfo, which implements IFormatProvider? You don't even need to specify this for numeric types in string.Format (or any other formatting method like Console.WriteLine). There's also a big section on formatting in the .NET Framework SDK, which should be your first stop for .NET-related documentation, articles, and examples. There is a simple solution for the scientific notation: string s = string.Format("{0:e}", myNum); // OR s = myNum.ToString("e"); // Also documented in numeric type's ToString docs Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

unfortunatly the text file needs to be "processed"

thanks! i was being dunce and looking at the solution properties... now i have my purdy icon :)