Belisario, As always, I'm glad to assist.
Your statement that there can be multiple types involved greatly complicates matters. This complication is not during storage (we could simply use a HashTable instead of the NameValueCollection used above). But during data entry and consequent retrieval, you will have no way of knowing the actual type of data that was entered (unless you force the user to select the type of data that is being entered). As for tutorials, I usually prefer reference sites like MSDN and I find most tutorials boring. I would recommend reading up on the System.Collections, System.Collections.Specialized and System.Collections.Generic namespaces. So, maybe someone else can point you to a good tutorial. On Mar 1, 6:46 am, Belisario <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you everybody for your replies! > > Yes, Cerebrus got the point, I'm sorry I didn't explain my problem > clearly enough. The User is the one who will use the application, not > another developer. > Your solution is really interesting and easy to understand even for a > beginner like me. > > The entry should be of three or four types probably (integer, string, > date), so I think I should move toward this dictionary issue... Do you > know some site to find some kind of tutorial apart from the MSDN > library? >
