check out this excellent and FREE tool: http://www.codeproject.com/dll/eventrecorder.asp Peter Molnar

AFAIK there is no standard way to do this. You have to implement your own custom group level access system. For our intranet I created a User class which contained a Rights property. Pages then checked the User instance for neccesary rights and decided what to display. Hopefully .NET Framework v2.0 will have a sub-page level Forms authentication system, that will rock. Might even be a good extension project for you to try out :) regards, Paul Bluegrass South Africa Ravi Bhavnani wrote: it's sold on EBay and shipped from China (on how to inspire confidence in your product) Crikey! ain't life grand?

Thanks for the reply... So it's standard practice to install these components on both the development machine and the server...??? I can't understand why you'd install IIS on your development machine when it's already installed on the web server on your network... I can point my dev environment to the virtual dir on the web server so I'd be interested in knowing what I'd gain by doing this... I'm more interested in the proper location of the asp.net and mdac.... thanks for any further explanation.... vince

thanks for the reply... as it turns out, that's exactly what I ended up doing

Like in HTML? No, unfortunately. But it doesn't have to be difficult at all. The radio buttons must be in some container, be that any given Control or, typically, a GroupBox. In order for controls to show up in the UI, they must be added to the container's Controls collection. Use that to your advantage: foreach (Control c in this.Controls) { RadioButton rb = c as RadioButton; if (rb != null && rb.Checked) { Console.WriteLine("You selected {0}!", rb.Text); break; } } -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

The XML documentation generated by the compiler must be parsed by tools such as NDoc (which I help develop). To integrate the help into VS.NET, you actually have to do quite a bit of work that involves the Help 2 system. You can find more information on MSDN by searching for "VSHIK", the Visual Studio Help Integration Kit. As far as "tooltip help" when you're typing in the VS.NET source window, the XML file for the assembly merely has to be in the same directory as the assembly itself. VS.NET will see that XML file and show the appropriate help based on what you're typing (class, method, parameter, property, etc.). It will not automatically integrate this into the help system (dynamic help, table of contents, index, and search), however. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

Well that method works, you could even pass in a reference to this in the constructor and set it that way in the child form. But if you set it it will be able to cycle back. If you have an email I can make a quick demo project I'm not an expert yet, but I play one at work. Yeah and here too.

Well, with C# you could use a verbatim string with an @ in front of it and you would only need two backwards slashes. ;) -Nick Parker

vlusardi wrote: or a way to dynamically add a tab page to a tab control...??? Sure, try something like this, it works: for(int i = 0; i < 5;i++) { TabPage tbpage = new TabPage("test" + i); this.tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tbpage); } -Nick Parker

Ok Here is the code ;) what I tried !!! you can compile and run under shell by > csc Form1.cs > Form1 you can derive the TreeView Class and make protected method callable via making public and calling protected method. Hope this helps or gives hints to your stuff !!! ---------------------------- using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; namespace WinTreeHandle { /// /// Summary description for Form1. /// public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form { private WinTreeHandle.Form1.MyTree treeView1; class MyTree : TreeView { public void OnMyAfterCheck(TreeViewEventArgs e) { e.Node.Checked = true; this.OnAfterCheck(e); } } private System.Windows.Forms.Button buttonClick; /// /// Required designer variable. /// private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null; bool bLoading = true; public Form1() { bLoading = true; // // Required for Windows Form Designer support // InitializeComponent(); // // TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call // bLoading = false; } /// /// Clean up any resources being used. /// protected override void Dispose( bool disposing ) { if( disposing ) { if (components != null) { components.Dispose(); } } base.Dispose( disposing ); } #region Windows Form Designer generated code /// /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify /// the contents of this method with the code editor. /// private void InitializeComponent() { this.treeView1 = new WinTreeHandle.Form1.MyTree(); this.buttonClick = new System.Windows.Forms.Button(); this.SuspendLayout(); // // treeView1 // this.treeView1.CheckBoxes = true; this.treeView1.ImageIndex = -1; this.treeView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 24); this.treeView1.Name = "treeView1"; this.treeView1.Nodes.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode[] { new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Node0"), new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Node1"), new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Node2"), new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Node3"), new System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode("Node4")});

that's what I was looking for, thanks a lot.

Yo, thanks for the clue, that's what I was looking for.... I owe you a beverage...

Use toolbox to drop a tab control onto the form; use the tab properties menu (Tab Pages - collection) to create one, or more tab pages and their labels; Right click in the whichever is topmost in the control - you will note that right clicking the mouse within the tab control's page(s) will bring up the properties (or events) menu for the Tab pages - can't set event handlers here - what you have to do is to then left click on one of the tabs - you will see that the properties (or events) menu for the Tab Control is now displayed (see note 1 below). You can now create event handlers for "Enter" and "Selected Index Changed" to give you the notifications you will most likely want to use use in your code - the "Enter" event occurs when the tab control (regardless of whichever page is topmost) receives the focus; the "Selected Index Changed" event occurs when you click on a tab different than the one that is currently topmost. Note 1: If you are displaying a Tab Page's properties (or events) menu (say for page 2) and you then left click on the page 2 tab to switch to the Tab Control menus you may find that it won't switch - have no fear, simply left click on a different tab. If you have a one tab control then click on the blank space immediately to the right of the tab. A VERY simple example of a do-nothing "Selected Index Changed" event handler is: private void tabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { int index=tabControl1.SelectedIndex; // Tab Control's tab index (0 relative) int tabIndex=tabControl1.TabIndex; // KB tab-key order string str = String.Format("tabControl2_SelectedIndexChanged selectedIndex={0} tabIndex={1}", index,tabIndex); MessageBox.Show(str); } Hope this helps. Spolia Opima

Don, Thanks again, I knew I'd be doing some recursion if I couldn't find any built-in functionality, just didn't realize it would be that simple...

Yo Don, thanks for the tip, that will do nicely...