Shawn,

>What I am asking for is your routine that looks up the key, in the message database. You said it returns the key it was passed if it didn't find the message in the message table, an EOF returned.
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>Is there a way to determine if the value was found or not, because I would like to display my own message if the key was not found, versus returning the key as the value.

Check out the MM .NET Help topic "Setting Text Programmatically". It lists the overloads of the Message Manager's GetMessage() method. If you pass a false as the returnMessageKeyIfNotFound, the method returns null if the language/message value is not found.

Regards,