>>>>Glad you got it sorted - is this an exercise ? or do you have a real life need for it ?
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>>>Mostly an exercise for myself. I'm trying to teach myself C# and the .Net Framework by doing. So I'm fooling around by writing small programs. Right now I'm playing around with a lottery program that tracks the our Lotto 649 and matches the numbers drawn to the numbers played. It also allows me to mess with SQL server a little as well as C#. The particular use I had for the indexers was in matching the numbers drawn to 'played' number lines.
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>>>I could have used an array and then written code around in other functions that count the number of matches, rearrange the matched numbers into a printable string etc, but it seemed like it might be more elegant to create a class with it's own internal methods - an indexer. Since I want to be able to match more than one line played in any one draw, it meant using an array of indexers.
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>>>Thanks to Bonnie's replies to other people, I've managed to figure out the back end of the thing. I wrote it with the front end being windows forms calling to a web service that talks to BOs that talk to data access code that talks to the database.
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>>>It's been fun and a good learning experience. I'll tell you one thing for sure. Read everything Bonnie puts on the UT.
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>>>Now it's time to figure out something else to play with to learn other things. It's easy to see how much I don't know.
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>>Alan,
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>>Recommended : http://www.amazon.com/3-0-Nutshell-Desktop-Reference-OReilly/dp/0596527578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248708389&sr=8-1
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>Funny you should mention that. I've actually been using: http://www.amazon.com/3-0-Pocket-Reference-Instant-Programmers/dp/0596519222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248708922&sr=1-1
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>I know it's just a reference, but in a lot of cases, that's all that's really needed. Although, I might just invest in your recommendation.

It's a reference but it also (briefly) explains the topics