I have tried putting Console.ReadLine(), but the error remains the same :sigh: And yes i am sorry for that ill-formatted code.. i'll remember to put next time.. -- modified at 0:46 Tuesday 11th July, 2006

This would work absolutely fine, but you did not get my problem I am displaying some value in the listbox and actually require some different value, say for e.g. i am showing names in the box whereas if the user selects a name i am retriving the corresponding employee ID for that name. Now this scenario is possible through ValueMember and DisplayMember property of ListBox. DisplayMember = name ValueMember = empId Now the code which you gave me works fine if i need to retrive the DisplayMembers from listbox.. My question though,here was i needed the ValueMembers to corresponding selection Thanks a lot -- modified at 6:14 Thursday 11th May, 2006

They are equivalent, so it's entirely up to you. e.g., the following two display the same thing: MessageBox.Show(System.Reflection.Missing.Value.ToString()); MessageBox.Show(System.Type.Missing.ToString()); David Anton www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com Instant C#: VB to C# converter Instant VB: C# to VB converter Instant C++: C# to C++ converter and VB to C++ converter Instant J#: VB to J# converter Clear VB: Cleans up VB.NET code Clear C#: Cleans up C# code

I think you might want to look at vtd-xml it is ideally designed to do what you described..

I don't know if it can be, but we in a project have problems with the Resources files, because the data inside weren't refreshed. So we did changes but we didn't see the text. The solution was to create a Pre-Build Event to Delete all the "bin" and "obj" of the projects that contained .rex and .resources files. with this everytime we compile the files were deleted and then refreshed. Regards Ricardo Casquete