If you are not happy with what you have, I can tell you how I did it, but I must warn you, it has been a big effort. I did it as part of a larger project; relevant steps include: - text lines stored in memory basically in an ArrayList, one item per line; - each line also holds two flags to indicate comment status; these get set when the line is input/changed; - text drawn in a Panel, using OnPaint handler, and Graphics.DrawString; - all coloring/syntax highlighting handled inside OnPaint, based on a simple parser that knows the list of keywords (and their color) for each of the supported programming languages. Steps taken to get maximum performance: - only the visible lines are parsed, colored and painted; lines scrolled outside the panel are skipped (except for the comment flags). A typical Panel shows up to 60 lines, a very small number with respect to an entire source file. - the comment flags help in starting the first visible line either as continued comment (green background) or not. - the simple parsers are not full fledged parsers, they dont understand expressions, dont return a parse tree, etc. They must only process a single line and know about comments, string literals, and keywords. - the parsers return tokens (identifiers, constants, operators, etc) as a string plus Color; Graphics.DrawString paints these tokens individually. - as a result of all this, nearly linear behavior, and no delay whatsoever. All in all a couple thousand lines of C# code (and based on a growing library of low-level classes that I use in all my apps and that is not included in the estimate). Hope this clarifies things. :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles] [Forum Guidelines]

Okay, i did some searching and using this code, i fixed this second problem - http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/SyntaxHighlighting.asp?msg=1194287#xx1194287xx[^] However, i still have the first problem... does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

Posting the exception you're receiving would be very helpful, but it looks like you're calling ReadLine twice without any assurance that you have two (or a multiple of two) lines to read. Readline is going to advance the cursor each time it's called. Additionally, if the code above is inside an error handler, I would point out that it might not be the best choice to open and parse a text file every time a key is pressed. Finally, a TextReader is a disposable type, so I would recommend either inserting a Try...Finally block or, better, a using (TextReader syntax_blue = ...) block instead. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' ('I found it!') but 'That's funny...’

Never done this myself, but I think you can only avoid case sensitiveness by turning both the search string as well as the content of FirstName to either upper or lower case. For the search string you can use the appropriate methods provided by the String class. In case of the content of FirstName you'll have to use XPath functions[^]. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de

private void doEditAccount(IAccount account) { this.isVisible = false; AccountManageForm form = new AccountManageForm(account); form.ShowDialog(); } Later, when the AccountManageForm is done running, you can make it visible again, or just not make it visble :P It's a bit of a hack, I guess, but you won't waste resources painting the form and get your desired functionality. Hope it helps. I didn't test the code, but I'm 99% sure you can just hide the form and get what you want.

But you didn't pass a bank object to the form. I didn't need to, so i ended up removing the line IBank bank;

Nevermind, i worked it out =D private void searchBtn1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { string fileName = "Account_Data.xml"; XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(fileName); XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator(); // Compile Standard XPath Expression XPathExpression expr; expr = nav.Compile("//Account[@ID='" + accountIDInput.Text + "']"); XPathNodeIterator iterator = nav.Select(expr); iterator = nav.Select(expr); if (iterator.MoveNext()) { XPathNavigator nav2 = iterator.Current.Clone(); string accID = (nav2.GetAttribute("ID", "")); nav2.MoveToFirstChild(); string firstName = (nav2.Value); nav2.MoveToNext(); string lastName = (nav2.Value); nav2.MoveToNext(); string currentBalance = (nav2.Value); nav2.MoveToNext(); string overDraftLimit = (nav2.Value); nav2.MoveToNext(); string = fullAddress = (nav2.Value); } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show("Error : " + ex.Message); } }

Hi. The XmlDocument class allows you to search and modify Xml nodes using the Document Object Model ( DOM ), which is a standard interface for working with XML. The language used to search XML is called XPath. The w3schools site is the best IMO for learning about any standard stuff like this, http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/[^] is the starting point for XPath. Basically you use SelectSingleNode or SelectNodes to find the node you want, then you can modify it, remove it, or insert a node just after it. msdn.microsoft.com is the best place for info on the XmlDocument class. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

I recommend if you're coding blind and trying things to see if they work, you buy a C# book and work through it. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Thanks allot for your advice, I changed shtb.ContextMenu = MyContextMenu; To shtb.ContextMenuStrip = MyContextMenu; Now its working :)

The error that was pointed out to you is still the case. If you create it in your constructor, locally, then it doesn't exist anymore in your load event. You should call the constructor in your load event. Scratch that. You buy a book on VB.NET, read it, work through it, and start another project when you've learned some basics. If you don't understand variable scoping, you frankly should not be writing code, sorry. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Spend some time to read the code from the article, learn how it works, then decide for yourself whether or not what you want is possible.