Charles,

>Now all is well with Kevin's book sample and other things and examples re connection strings etc seem to be behaving as advertised.

Glad you were able to figure it out (with a little help from some friends).

>( Great book Kevin - enjoying it very much. I being a VFE er ( a close cousin to the MM ers ) I am very fond of business objects and decoupling logic from presentation. You examples in this direction are very good and I am sure MM .NET is going to get a lot of folks involved in best practices on this stuff)

Thanks for the feedback! I've spent a lot of time in our MM .NET documentation (which I'm working on as we speak) making a strong case for business objects...not everyone is on board with them, but I'm hoping to make some converts!

Regards,