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Here's something that I've burnt hours on before... HOW TO: set the row color in WinForms datagrid when selected?

As I was ranting to Dave: "Somehow people are missing the Starter Kits and I'm not really sure why".

Just saw a blog entry from Duncan about a new Rss feed for User Samples on GDN... 3 words "subscribe to it":

I've been having a nice chat with ( d.o.t.d. ) Dave about our respective growth as developers :-)

I've committed to buying the book that Kent  mentioned - Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler .  It sounds like just the sort of book that I'd love for reading on the bus on the way to work and back.  In fact this paragraph from the blurb sums up my own feelings very well:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

After spending the past year without any local developer affilliations I finally found - via the INETA site - that there was in fact a .NET Users group in my home town - http://www.ineta.org/GroupDetail.aspx?GroupID=569&tabindex=1.

I'm not sure that this is the most optimal Hex2Dec2Color code around, but it will do me for the time being. I ended up writing a tool to wrap that following function so that I could easily enter a Hex string and see the color representation of it.