>It says that it can't find the dbc in the c:\app_dir\data directory? Even if I force the dbc open as the first line.>

That's odd...Are you sure the database is there and you have read/write privileges in that directory?

>Also why would a ctextbox not show text typed in on a page? Really funky. You can't see editing in real time is the easy way to put it.
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>You see the cursor move press enter and the lsot focus does it's ting. But the textbox now shos the data. Switch pages and when the page refresh shows up the tet is there. Go to that contol and delete some of the charactesr and you don't see it on the screen but pressing enter the refresh o the form show the modifed text properly.>

Is it possible you have an issue with the form's LockScreen property?

Regards,