Why make life difficult for yourself? Get a copy of C# 2008 Express from Microsoft; it's a superb product and it is free. And if you still want to use Notepad and command line compile then check out the C# compiler pages on MSDN.

Hi, if your ListBox (or any other collection) contains items of type T, then you could provide an object implementing IComparer<T> and pass that to the Sort method. All that interface takes is providing a simple method int Compare(T x, T y) in which you can implement any sorting order you like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FWIW: you can edit and delete your own messages if you need to. [EDIT] Sorry, the above is insufficient, ListBox.Sort() does not take any parameters. There are basically two ways of doing it: 1. implement your own sort method; e.g. a bubble sort where you compare two items (in any way you see fit) and swap them if necessary. 2. better way: use an intermediate collection, e.g. an array. This means: - ListBox.Items.CopyTo(array,0) copies the items into an array - ListBox.Items.Clear() removes the items - Array.Sort(array, IComparer) sorts the items - ListBox.Items.AddRange(array) adds them again, in the right order. [/EDIT] :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get. Show formatted code inside PRE tags, and give clear symptoms when describing a problem. modified on Saturday, August 8, 2009 3:46 PM

Why the hell did you get downvoted for that? :confused: Anyway evened it out a bit ;P

He seems below to be saying he wants to store a string that contains the name and the balance. He actually had the code to do that posted. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Nathan Revka wrote: He wants me to calculate stuff with savingsBalance but I do not think I am able to do that with an object that includes a string This makes your teacher a bit dumb, IMO, but you can convert a string into a number using decimal.TryParse, or int.TryParse, depending on what type you want. You can also use the decimal.Parse or even Convert.ToInt32, etc, but the tryparse will not blow up if the string does not contain a number. Of course, if amount is a number, then that's all you would use to calculate with. Storing the savingsBalance as a string, seems odd to me, the balance is the number, the rest is the account name. The string might be rendered by a helper method, but surely amount is also being stored somewhere ? Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

It is probably a better idea to expose a public method or property in your Form1 class that you would execute from your satellite class. For example, if you needed to access the listbox from a different class so you can retrieve the selected index, you might within your Form1 class expose a public method: public partial class Form1 { ... public int GetListSelectedIndex() { return listBox1.SelectedIndex; } ... } MishaInTheCloud.blogspot.com

Why don't you want to store them one by one in the array you have defined?

You should create one instance of Random as a static field of the class and use it whenever you need it. It should never be a local variable of a method.

well if you are using a textbox then you will need a number of different validations... 1. Check the currency symbol exists only once and is the first character, if not present you should auto add it 2. Check there is only 1 decimal point 3. Check for any , symbols you may want to include and insure they are in the right places 4. Check only two digits after the decimal place... if(text.LastIndexOf('.') != text.Length - 3) //not two digits after the decimal point ...there are other validations you may want to try and other methods to calculate the number of digits after a decimal. you could also use a NumericUpDown control which has a property to set how many decimal places you wish to use, in addition to choosing if you want to you commas for thousand seperators Life goes very fast. Tomorrow, today is already yesterday.

Nathan Revka wrote: I made fee and total a static variable above the main method Unless you have a particular need for a field to be accessible globaly and not tied to an instance, I would not have it as static. You mention your Main method, is this a console app? If so, create a seperate class and put stuff in that, and instanciate that class within the main method. Dave BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia) Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)