I've been using Visual Studio 2008 on my EEE PC 1000H for 2 years and I have no complaints. I can confirm that Visual Studio runs fine on a netbook, the Atom CPU is powerful enough, you should only get used to the small screen resolution (1024 x 600 in my case). Vladovsoft
Software products for fitness centers, health clubs, hotels, storehouses and shops.

I'm using Windows Vista + Visual Studio 2008 and I have 2 GB of RAM both on my PC and on my laptop. I find it's more than enough.

Vladovsoft
Software products for fitness centers, health clubs, hotels, storehouses and shops.

You're absolutely right !!! It is always better to sacrifice some functionality in the name of simplicity. Your users will appreciate this. Of course, some eye-candies won't hurt, too ;)

Vladovsoft
Software products for fitness and health club management, storehouses, shops and barcode generation.

My brother has bought a Gigabyte laptop recently. It features a Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz) CPU, 4 GB RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8400 video card. It runs Windows Vista with all features turned on perfectly fine and costs no more than $1500. Good deal, huh ;)

Vladovsoft
Software products for fitness and health club management, storehouses, shops and barcode generation.

The designer file is meant to hide the code used for the GUI. So better leave it hidden and do not try to touch it ;)

Vladovsoft
Software products for fitness and health club management, storehouses, shops and barcode generation.

Wow, C# is going down :( I guess this is a .NET Framework 3.5 fault. C# 2.0 was reaaly very successful.

And you call this a challenge. There's nothing more simple than that. You have to do 4 things: 1. Remove the keyword static 2. Declare an instance of your class in the global scope of the class where you want to use it 3. Initialize the instance 4. Use it Really simple, isn't it :) P.S.: Take it easy, pal. Every programmer has been a beginner ;)

The value assigned to the text box is 0 because it is 0. You must initialize you variable first. And I agree to alex, you really have to read some books. Such silly questions simply flood the forum. I wish you luck, Pavel