adrift, yes. took quite a while to paddle back here

I'm using C# in VS so wonder if the bracketing solution is for me. i seem to remember reading that C# didn't share in that problem. Here's my walkthrough code that gets the error "The type or namespace name 'sforce' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)":

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.SessionState;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace walkThrough {

class WalkthroughSample {

private sforce.SforceService binding;

static private WalkthroughSample walkthroughSample;

[STAThread]

static void Main(string[] args) {

walkthroughSample = new WalkthroughSample();

walkthroughSample.run();

}

public void run() {

//Call the login function

if ( login() ) {

//Do a describe global

describeGlobal();

//describe an account object

describeSObject("account");

//retrieve some data using query

querySample();

}

}

private bool login() {

//Get the user name and password from the console

Console.Write("Username: ");

string username = Console.ReadLine();

Console.Write("Password: ");

string password = Console.ReadLine();

//create a new instance of the web service proxy class

binding = new sforce.SforceService();

try {

//execute the login placing the results

//in a LoginResult object

sforce.LoginResult loginResult = binding.login(username, password);

//set the session id header for subsequent calls

binding.SessionHeaderValue = new sforce.SessionHeader();

binding.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId = loginResult.sessionId;

//reset the endpoint url to that returned from login

binding.Url = loginResult.serverUrl;

return true;

}

catch (Exception ex) {

//Login failed, report message then return false

Console.WriteLine("Login failed with message: " + ex.Message);

return false;

}

}

private void describeGlobal() {

//The describe global will return an array of object names that

//are available to the logged in user

sforce.DescribeGlobalResult dgr = binding.describeGlobal();

Console.WriteLine("\nDescribe Global Results:\n");

//Loop through the array echoing the object names to the console

for (int i=0;i<dgr.types.Length;i++) {

Console.WriteLine(dgr.types[i]);

}

Console.WriteLine("\n\nHit enter to continue...");

Console.ReadLine();

}

private void describeSObject(string objectType) {

//Call the describeSObject passing in the object type name

sforce.DescribeSObjectResult dsr =

binding.describeSObject(objectType);

//The first properites we will echo are on the object itself

//First we will output some Descriptive info on the object

Console.WriteLine("\n\nObject Name: " + dsr.name);

if (dsr.custom) Console.WriteLine("Custom Object");

if (dsr.label != null) Console.WriteLine("Label: " + dsr.label);

//now the permissions on the object

if (dsr.activateable) Console.WriteLine("Activateable");

if (dsr.createable) Console.WriteLine("Createable");

if (dsr.deletable) Console.WriteLine("Deleteable");

if (dsr.queryable) Console.WriteLine("Queryable");

if (dsr.replicateable) Console.WriteLine("Replicateable");

if (dsr.retrieveable) Console.WriteLine("Retrieveable");

if (dsr.searchable) Console.WriteLine("Searchable");

if (dsr.undeletable) Console.WriteLine("Undeleteable");

if (dsr.updateable) Console.WriteLine("Updateable");

//Now we will retrieve meta-data about each of the fields

for (int i=0;i<dsr.fields.Length;i++) {

//Create field object for readability

sforce.Field field = dsr.fields[i];

//Echo some useful information

Console.WriteLine("Field name: " + field.name);

Console.WriteLine("\tField Label: " + field.label);

//This next property indicates that this

//field is searched when using

//the name search group in SOSL

if (field.nameField)

Console.WriteLine("\tThis is a name field.");

if (field.restrictedPicklist)

Console.WriteLine("This is a RESTRICTED picklist field.");

Console.WriteLine("\tType is: " + field.type.ToString());

if (field.length > 0)

Console.WriteLine("\tLength: " + field.length);

if (field.scale > 0)

Console.WriteLine("\tScale: " + field.scale);

if (field.precision > 0)

Console.WriteLine("\tPrecision: " + field.precision);

if (field.digits > 0)

Console.WriteLine("\tDigits: " + field.digits);

if (field.custom)

Console.WriteLine("\tThis is a custom field.");

//Output the permission on this field.

if (field.nillable) Console.WriteLine("\tCan be nulled.");

if (field.createable) Console.WriteLine("\tCreateable");

if (field.filterable) Console.WriteLine("\tFilterable");

if (field.updateable) Console.WriteLine("\tUpdateable");

//If this is a picklist field, we will show the values

if (field.type.Equals(sforce.fieldType.picklist)) {

Console.WriteLine("\tPicklist Values");

for (int j=0;j<field.picklistValues.Length;j++)

Console.WriteLine("\t\t" + field.picklistValues[j].value);

}

//If this is a foreign key field (reference),

//we will show the values

if (field.type.Equals(sforce.fieldType.reference)) {

Console.WriteLine("\tCan reference these objects:");

for (int j=0;j<field.referenceTo.Length;j++)

Console.WriteLine("\t\t" + field.referenceTo[j]);

}

Console.WriteLine("");

}

Console.WriteLine("\n\nHit enter to continue...");

Console.ReadLine();

}

private void querySample() {

//The results will be placed in qr

sforce.QueryResult qr = null;

//We are going to limit our return batch size to 3 items

binding.QueryOptionsValue = new sforce.QueryOptions();

binding.QueryOptionsValue.batchSize = 3;

binding.QueryOptionsValue.batchSizeSpecified = true;

try {

qr = binding.query("select FirstName, LastName from Contact");

bool done = false;

if (qr.size > 0) {

Console.WriteLine("Logged in user can see " + qr.records.Length

+ " contact records.");

while (!done) {

Console.WriteLine("");

for (int i=0;i<qr.records.Length;i++) {

sforce.Contact con = (sforce.Contact)qr.records[i];

string fName = con.FirstName;

string lName = con.LastName;

if (fName == null)

Console.WriteLine("Contact " + (i + 1) + ": " + lName);

else

Console.WriteLine("Contact " + (i + 1) + ": " + fName + " "

+ lName);

}

if (qr.done) {

done = true;

}

else {

qr = binding.queryMore(qr.queryLocator);

}

}

}

else {

Console.WriteLine("No records found.");

}

}

catch (Exception ex) {

Console.WriteLine("\nFailed to execute query succesfully, error message was: \n" + ex.Message);

}

Console.WriteLine("\n\nHit enter to exit...");

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}