Whilst arrangements were being made for the decapitation of Beatrice.The machine being now rearranged and washed, the executioner returned to the chapel to take charge of Beatrice, who, on seeing the sacred crucifix, said some prayers for her soul, and on her hands being tied, cried out, “God grant that you be binding this body unto corruption, and loosing this soul unto life eternal!” She then arose, proceeded to the platform, where she devoutly kissed the stigmata; then, [p. 410] leaving her slippers at the foot of the scaffold, she nimbly ascended the ladder, and instructed beforehand, promptly lay down on the plank, without exposing her naked shoulders. But her precautions to shorten the bitterness of death were of no avail, for the pope, knowing her impetuous disposition, and fearing lest she might be led into the commission of some sin between absolution and death, had given orders that the moment Beatrice was extended on the scaffold a signal gun should be fired from the castle.
of Sant’ Angelo; which was done, to the great astonishment of everybody, including Beatrice herself, who, not expecting this explosion, raised herself almost upright; the pope meanwhile, who was praying at Monte Cavallo, gave her absolution in articulo mortis. About five minutes thus passed, during which the sufferer waited with her head replaced on the block; at length, when the executioner judged that the absolution had been given, he released the spring, and the axe fell. A gruesome sight was then afforded: whilst the head bounced away on one side of the block, on the other the body rose erect, as if about to step backwards; the executioner exhibited the head, and disposed of it and the body as before. He wished to place Beatrice’s body with that of her stepmother, but the brotherhood of Mercy took it out of his hands, and as one of them was attempting to lay it on the bier, it slipped from him and fell from the scaffold to the ground below; the dress being partially torn.

What I am trying to do is be able to move things around (picture files), on a Form that I made in VB and furthermore associate file strings to them. I will have an opendialogbox with them as the user has to click on them and selects a file that is then assigned to the picture file. Also the user is able to dynamically create and drag the pictures around the form and leave it wherever they want to. The problem I am having, and thinking that I might need a database because after the file is closed, it is opened again, I want to have the points (locations on the form), for the specific pictures as well as the file associated with them loaded up so that everything looks as it did before they closed it. Now I am wondering if I need a whole elaborate database for that. In the end this application has to be able to be transported to their machine and executed. Thus this means that the database has to go with it. Any ideas? Sample code? Will an XML file work better?
This is the general idea for the input into the MSSQL. Let me know if this is all needed…

Public Sub Save(ByVal bwavfile() As Byte)

Dim DBInsertCmd As SqlClient.SqlCommand
Dim sSQL As String
Dim strConn As String

strConn = “”
DBInsertCmd = New SqlClient.SqlCommand
DBInsertCmd.Connection = New SqlClient.SqlConnection(strConn)

Dim strBase64WavFile As String = Convert.ToBase64String(bwavfile)

sSQL = “INSERT INTO wavfiles(filename, soundfile) values (@filename, ” &_
“@bwavfile)”
DBInsertCmd.CommandText = sSQL
With DBInsertCmd.Parameters
.Clear()
.Add(“@filename”, Me.TextBox2.Text)
.Add(“@bwavfile”, strBase64WavFile)
End With

DBInsertCmd.Connection.Open()
Try
DBInsertCmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
MessageBox.Show(“Wav File Saved”)
Catch oExcept As Exception
MessageBox.Show(oExcept.Message)
End Try

DBInsertCmd.Connection.Close()
DBInsertCmd = Nothing
End Sub
I am trying to understand the pieces more precicely and know more of what I really need and do not or even if I need this whole scheme. Perhaps if you have a simple working example about the saving of dynamic data creation to file, I would be very happy to see it.

Thanks much,

Brian