The date picker is not the issue. Each date picker will return a DateTime. Subtracting one date time from another results in a TimeSpan, which will give you the value you need. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

I have finally found a good VB.NET book, purchased it today and am already through the first 4 chapters....Deitels How to program in Visual Basic.NET. Its the first one Ive found that actually DOES talk about HOW to program in VB.NET and doesnt spend 75% of the book on form design! Ordered the Inside C# book you mentioned, by the time it arrives I should have more of an idea of whats going on! Cheers

Visual Very Basic wrote: Yeah wrong about the trolling whatever that is! Trolling is when you post something to incite argument. That's all. Visual Very Basic wrote: n looking at many of your responses to other parts of this and other forums it seems you dont have too much work on at the moment, (is there noone looking for a cheaper less skilled programmer anywhere? try India!) this attitude of your shines through in almost all of your posts so Im not feeling singled out. And its these comments that caused my initial assumption. Your trying to insult me maybe, but it isn't very creative. This is also what prompts the Jackass comment. I could be wrong. Out of curiousity I looked at my message history. Funny. Only on some of the days do I post much. Some days I don't post a thing. And you know, or maybe you wouldn't, when debugging an application that takes about 10 minutes to get started leaves plenty of time to post. So, again you seem to be assuming a bit about this profession and attempting to provoke me by calling me cheap unskilled labor. Interesting tactic like I said. Good luck with that. This statement was never false.

idyot wrote: So it wasnt really good info for beginners but I take your point VB6 was a different basic language, and Microsoft moved to VB.NET ( which is VB7 ), in 2002. There was Visual studio 2002, 2003, and 2005, but 2003 was 7.1, and .NET 1.1. 2005 is .NET 2.0, and, I guess, VB8. So, it's a little convuluted, but it doesn't matter, 2005 is what you want to learn. idyot wrote: and by the sound of it in another post SQL (sounding complicated) SQL is a simple enough language, it's only use is to provide access to data in databases. Learn VB.NET first, then move on to SQL, but SQL is a lot easier ( because it does less ) idyot wrote: To be part of the community you have to know what kinds of questions to ask and unfortunately my confusion has led me to the point of not even knowing that!!! Generally speaking, any question that starts with 'I want to know how to do x, and these are the things I've tried, but instead of doing what I hoped, I got this error/this happened', are always well recieved. Questions like 'I wrote some code and it doesn't work - why', or 'I need the code to do x' are not, because they don't show any indication that the person asking has done anything to try and solve their own problem. idyot wrote: My point being that I dont wanna hold anyone to a guarantee that their suggestion as to which route to take is right or wrong. Well, that's the nature of online forums. I correct advice that's well meaning but wrong, all the time. I also see a lot of smart, committed people offering very good advice here. idyot wrote: So thanks for the reply....Im gonna try the O'reilly Book Programming Visual Basic 2005 first, it seems ok in the reviews, was suggested by another post on this forum and ISNT from Sam's! so Im happy O Reilly books are good, and Jesse Liberty is a good writer, but I thought that book seems forms oriented, so I didn't recommend it. It could well be good tho, I can see that fewer and fewer books have the guts to teach command line programming first, they just wouldn't sell. Good luck !! Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a pr

WOOHOO! Atari BASIC! 10 PRINT "I learned all I needed to know (apart from *s) on Atari BASIC!" 20 GOTO 10 Taught myself how to code on an 800XL from '85 to about '90 I think. Then I moved on to an Amiga and learned a bit of FORTH. By '93/'94 I was on to SPARCs and C at Uni. I think as a result of my dynamic background I've become quite language Agnostic: I hate 'em all for one reason or another :-D