Richard,
You might, but however I'm not a .Net expert, worse I don't work with compact framework (I really wish I did). Another thing is that I rarely open my email box.
You might use this forum (if you want to describe your problem in terms of VFP for example) and many other forums avaliable (ie: MS forums). I believe you'd get much better and timely responses (you see on my first reply I even didn't notice it was compact framework).
One great source IMHO is Bob Tabor's videos. Most of it are for free (I preferred lifetime subscription). Follow link in my signature to get there (learnvisualstudio.net). Videos are not like webcasts (which generally make me sleep, mostly slides, little hard to read code etc:). He takes you from opening the VS IDE to completing a work.
PS: If you're not the boss there is a good side of doing compact FW. They wouldn't expect you to do all with emulators and buy you a mobile device:)
Cetin

>Many thanks
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>Would it be possible for me to OCCASSIONALLY email you if I have real problems
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>I have taken nearly 3 months to get to grips with VS and feel really frustrated because I dont know anyone to contact.
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>I spend 4 hours yesterday trying to find how to get data out of a grid - stllh havent cracked it (and many other hours over the last few weeks) I ended up dropping a control on the form with the field I needed and reading that!!!
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>When I started with VFP they eventually brough out a book called THe Pros Talk. Had everything you needed to know about contrls, dataBases, Conectivity and DataBases
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>One of the adavntages of where you are is that you are awake before me
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>It really would be appreciated
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>Regards
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>Richard Simmons (Shrewsbury - UK)