Hello Everyone,

Okay, the past 2 days i've been working on a login / registration method for my chat system. Thus far i've gotten it to do the following:

(server - form load...i have all the names from my username field in the database loaded into a listbox)
Registration - Someone registers, it sends the username and password to the server and server stores them in strings, after they've been split up. Then my CheckList function is invoked, whereas the username that has been stored is double checked against my listbox to see if there is a duplicate. If there is then it stops there and sends back a message telling the client. If there isn't a match then it continues and puts the new username/password into the database and sends back a registration complete message.

All of this doesn't require any "searching" of the database exactly...more or less i went around that by using a listbox seeing as how i don't really know many sql statements and didn't want to search the database.

My next step is the login process....ill have to check both username AND password this time

Maybe this will shed some light on any others who are having thoughts of a similiar process, or someone would like to comment on how stupid my method is.

Ice