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The point is if you're using case >10 <30, case >30, default...then your code won't need many cases and if/else works fine. If you have constants, e.g. some sort of parser then const cases make sense.

Unfortunately that won't work for this program. Because of the way the dos program was structured I need to be able to press a single key (in this case the left or right arrow) to open the menu's. Most of the staff that use this program might be able to turn a computer on on a very good day and the owner doesn't want to have to retrain them (hah) to learn to use a new program. What I am looking for is the equivalent of menu.open or menu.focus (as such), ie: how can I call the equivalent of a mouse click on a menu in code to make the menu open? MenuItem.PerformClick would work, if I knew how to tell the menu to open.

This is something I see implemented incorrectly time and time again. The *correct* way to derive a key from a string password is using the System.Security.Cryptography.PasswordDeriveBytes method - it's usage is very straight forward.

In VB WE GENERALLY HANDLE EVENTS LIKE private sub btn_Click(object as sender, e as System.Eventargs) handles Btn_click.cliked --- --- --- ---- end sub the handles key word is impt and denotes what the event handles.This is using the codebehind page model.So there must be some equivalent in c#.Look out for that piece of info. Hope this helps. Pradhip.S If a Building is Completed then why do they call it BUILDING ??

Thanks, I'll give that a go

I added in the .Refresh() and the memory usage started changing like it used to. Seeing this, I left it running for a few hours and after 7+ hours, the memory usage has a peak of 110 meg (set 5 mins ago), a current memory of 60 meg, and it never dropped below its initial value of 20 meg since the app started. The main memory usage seems to occur when reading the event log, as when it is checking cpu usage the memory changes a small amount (~100k) but seems stable. It seems to be having problems when reading the event log into a datatable and then displaying that in a datagrid. It also seems, since I made the Process object static, that a) initial memory usage has jumped (from 10 meg to 20 meg), and that peak memory usage has doubled as well (previously it peaked around 40 - 50 meg, now it's 110 meg). I am not talking about a lot of data being stored in memory consistently - the datatable has a max of 10 records, and I clear the datatable at the beggining of each loop through the current log (cycling through system, security, application logs every 10 secs for testing purposes). Is it the Process that is using up so much memory? - I call the p.WorkingSet every 2 secs currently, but now I am only calling the Refresh(), not creating a new instance of the object. Is there a more "light weight" way of checking the memory usage of a the current app? Maybe calling the Process object is itself causing the high memory usage?