Would you mind providing more clarification? Are you trying to invoke an existing application (.exe) from a DOS batch file. Or are you invoking a method within the program.

As a general practice, global variables are bad. This compromises the security of the application, as well as eliminating any chance of data-hiding through the use of objects and variable passing. Now, this of course depends on the type of information and the use of the program. You may want to use a static global variable for things like links or connection information etc. This means that the variable cannot be changed at any point of from anywhere else in the program though. It will exist as a static reference value. What are you trying to accomplish with the global variable?

What options are there to create a windowless program? For example the desktop clocks and calendars, which have no "window" or borders. Is this a transparency setting? Or how can this be accomplished? Any tips, hints, or places to research would be appreciated. Also how do you mount the program to the desktop? Thanks eD

Just for a follow-up. I think it has worked for now. But I won't know until tomorrow. It didn't create an install file, but an application file. Hopefully this will be sufficient. Thanks again

Thank you, I'll give it a try..

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to the programming process. I've never done a complete program until now. How do I create an install file for my program, in order to distribute and install my program to multiple computers? Right now I'm just running it from the debug file... Thanks for your help Eric

First off, Thanks for your responses! From what I understand, the above looks like it would work. The problem is, I don't know where to start...? (I'm a complete rookie at this) Does anyone know where I can find some sort of instructional for dictionaries? or possibly just a breakdown of the above example? Thanks again.

I just got into school for Computer Information Systems, and I am currently in my first programming class (ROOKIE!!!) I got bored with the assignments they were giving me so I decided to start my own project. However I am running into a problem. I created a StreamReader() in order to read a .txt file and distribute the contents into a [250,4] array. Now I've got all of that working, but the array is not completely filled. There is more to be added during the execution of the program. Now to the point. I am needing to search the first column of the array for a spacific value, and have it return the subscript so that I can access the value of the 4th column at that subscript. Now the only method that I have been shown for this is BinarySearch(); but for this to work the array must be in ascending order. Come to find out the Array.Sort() method only works on one-dimentional arrays... So how would I accomplish sorting the multidimentional array so that I keep all of the information in it's appropriate 'row'? Or if I can't sort it, is there another method that might serve the same purpose? Any help would be greatly appreciated! (Please keep it reletively simple, I'm still gettin' familiar with the terminology) Eric