I wrote one; got it to compile with no errors, ran it and found out something is incorrect in the uac information in terms of configuration so the program doesn't run. Had Microsoft been smart, it would have put a checkbox in the properties for an application that had to be checked if you wanted any xml stuff to be generated. All the stuff in that uac information panel is connected to xml and if you didn't learn to configure that correctly, you may as well not do anything with Microsoft development tools. If I'm lucky stuff won't be so broken visual studio has to be reinstalled, but we'll find that out next week. Fortunately I wrote the steps down to get to create a console application so I'll be able to reproduce them. Rot47: <;F56]52D9:6==@?2GJ]>:=> __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind