>Sergey,
>thanks you. I do wish that wasn't the answer. Maybe you have an idea. What I really want to do is to have the user input data, but I don't want them to have to wait for the processing of each record to finish. I want them to just enter and enter and enter data. The process behind the scenes takes up to 1.5 to 2 seconds, so that is really slow. My thought was use an out of process (EXE) COM to handle the processing and then let the program know when it finished each item so the main program could update the database. I want this because if the user has 1000 items to enter, it could take up to 30 minutes. but if they could just rapid fire enter the data, they could cut that time by half.
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>I suppose I could either add the database updating functionality to the current COM or make a new COM to handle that.


Hi David,

It sounds like a batch processing to me. I don't see why it has to be tide to the data entry. It should be a separate process.