Setting the "PositionCount" solved the problem. Thanks. Now a second problem. With the animations defined as a window resource, they run one time only. What do I have to reset in a DoubleAnimation to reuse it? For now I am creating the animations at run time. But I would like to know how to reuse an animation.

WBurgMo wrote: The variable elapsed will be in the range of 10,000,000. I am not sure it will be in this range. Value you are getting is a signed 64-bit number. WBurgMo wrote: Is it tenths of a micro second or some other unit of time? Here is what MSDN says, Serializes the current DateTime object to a 64-bit binary value that subsequently can be used to recreate the DateTime object. Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

Thats one way :) Even better would be Select * from Customers where 1 = 2 Which will give you an empty table and use less resource on the server Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd

Sorry James, can't be done. I work in a part of the world where RTL is the norm. Short of building your own combobox, there is no ready solution. There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

One thought only: look at the preprocessor directives for the converted project and in the code. When cross platform code is involved you normally insert ‘#ifdef’ statements in the code to specify which platform you are compiling for. INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra