Rick

What i cannot beleive is how slow VSudio is

I have a dual processor Laptop and it just seems to take ages to load uop VS and then build it

Thanks for the tip I do buld to the machine rather than the emulator

Also not sending down the sdf eveytime helps!!!

Do you know how to pass parameters from i form to another

ie I have a main form that takes a few start up parameters (txtUserName, txtDevType) that i want to use in a form (frmDev) called by this main form.
(frmDev fdev = new frmDEv());
fdev.Show(); [thought .show may take parameters]

This is why I want a book - for tye simple stuff!!

Regards

Richard