Thanks for that. It's the type of information I need.

I am new to VB world and developing an application which has to identify a person using their fingerprint, and i have to autopopulate the textboxes from the database depending upon who has logged in (the returned fingerprint ID from a scanner). That is, once the userid has been obtained from a reader then autopopulating the textbox fields i.e. family name, address, birthday, etc. Your post looks similar to what i need, except it gives me an "object...