It's your code, you should know what it does. If you are not familiar with the pattern you are using, please read up on it. Your 'indexer' (key really) can be based on anything if you use hashtables instead. Lastly, why do you want to loop? Do you want to combine the data maybe? Then do that after you got the data. Solve one problem at a time. xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

Hi there, thanks for the speedy response... well I just started out with .Net so I really didnt know about these generic classes in 2.0, thanks for pointing out, I looked at them and the sample code you posted, Following is what I kinda came up with. //Member Level variable string mJurisdictionSelected = null; protected void GetUserSelectedValues() { string dateSelected = this.mDateRestrictor.SelectedItem.Value.ToString(); //this.dateTest.Text = dateSelected; //for (int num = 0; num < mJuristictionCheckBoxList.Items.Count; num++) //string[] jurisdictionName; string jurisdictionName = null; System.Collections.Generic.List<string> list = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>(); foreach (ListItem item in this.mJuristictionCheckBoxList.Items) { //ArrayList jurisdictionName = new ArrayList(); if (item.Selected) { list.Add(item.Text); //jurisdictionName = item.Text.ToString(); // this.StateTest.Text = jurisdictionName.ToString(); } } this.mDateSelected = dateSelected.ToString(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(jurisdictionName)) //this.mJurisdictionSelected = jurisdictionName.ToString(); this.mJurisdictionSelected = list.ToString(); } Now as you can see, after retrieving the values (from drop down) into string variable dateSelected and from checkboxlist into string variable mJurisdictionSelected, I need to pass them to our company's middle tier folks...so thats why I'm putting them in member level variables....the question regarding the implemenation you showed me is that " should I just create System.Collections.Generic.List as a member level thing, outside of the function and then directly keep the values into the list of type System.Collections.Generic.List. Instead of putting them into string mJurisdictionSelected? I mean the issue is that user could be selecting more than one value from the checkbox list so is this implemenation you told me about would be able to hanle more than one entry selected by user in the checkbox list?????? Or do I need like an array or something??? Please help?? Thanks Sam ----------------------------- If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

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Thanks for the article Vasudevan, appreciate it. -I was wondering if the same would apply to the user contols also? The site that I'm woring on has lots of user controls and my manager wants the menus on the site to be driven by these Hot keys (alt + something else) as well. -In addition I would like a key combination, for instance to get to the main page (perhaps ALT + H...to get to the homepage located at www.google.com). As this would just be a link how do I set up these access keys property you told me about. Or is it that a link will probably renders as a div...so I could aplly it on there. Please let me know if you have anymore information available on these topics. Thank you very much for the time. Sam ----------------------------- If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

Thanks for your response, is there anyone else out here who may have done something along these lines. I would appreciate it. Thanks sam ----------------------------- If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

Sam We did a lot of work with .NET 1/1.1 to render out accessible web forms. Here are some pointers to get you on your way: If you want XHTML output (not strictly necessary for accessibility, but it is a nice to have), then you are going to have to modify the HTML that is sent back to the browser. This article gives you a taste (the approach we took was different, but that was because we needed to modify other things on the form as well): http://www.liquid-internet.co.uk/content/dynamic/pages/series1article1.aspx[^] One way to guarantee that you produce valid CSS is to "roll your own" controls. This is not as hard as it sounds, and can be good fun. Regards Pete Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.