[milton7888]

   Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
		Const Path As String = "Customers.xml"
		Dim customers As New List(Of Customer)
		Dim xmlIn As New XmlTextReader(Path)
		xmlIn.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None
		Dim i As Integer
		Dim c As Customer


		i = 0

		Do While xmlIn.Name <> "Customer"
			xmlIn.Read()
		Loop

		Do While xmlIn.Name = "Customer"
			Dim customer As New Customer
			xmlIn.ReadStartElement("Customer")
			customer.FirstName = xmlIn.ReadElementString("FirstName")
			customer.LastName = xmlIn.ReadElementString("LastName")
			customer.Email = xmlIn.ReadElementString("Email")
			customer.Password = xmlIn.ReadElementString("Password")
			customer.IDnumber = xmlIn.ReadElementString("IDnumber")
			customer.LoginID = xmlIn.ReadElementString("LoginID")
			xmlIn.ReadEndElement()

			If customer.LoginID = loginform1.UsernameTextBox.Text Then
				If customer.Password = loginform1.PasswordTextBox.Text Then
					i = i + 1
					c = customers.Item(i)
					customers -= c

				End If
			Else

			End If


		Loop
	End Sub
End Class

can someone tell me whats wrong with this code...i am trying to delete the customer that is equal to the text box's in the if statement....so i want to delete that whole customer, but with the code how i have it now it says operator"-" is not defined for types( for the line customers -=c ....i may be doing this all wrong.
if someone could look at this code and let me know how to get it to work, i would appreciate it.
THANKS
MILT

[Core]

When you are removing items from a List, you should use this (if you remove a specific object):

ListName.Remove (object)

If you want to remove an item based on the item ID, use this:

ListName.Remove (ID)

[milton7888]

thanks for the help, i got it workin now....