Can I do this?

Yes you can make a struct within a struct. But what you've done so far (if we throw the array [] out) is just make a structure definition within a struct.

I think what you want is something like

    internal struct bookInfoByVenue
    {
        internal string venueName;
        internal bool newBook;
        internal decimal price;
    };
 
    internal struct pricingData  //  structure to hold the data received on each book received from website
        {
            internal string ISBN;
            internal decimal listPrice;
            internal bookInfoByVenue[5] bookInfo;
 
        };

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You're trying to create your second structure as an array. If you need an array of structures, then create the second structure separately. I have included a correction of your original code and an alternative. I tested both and they seem to work.

Also, I'm guessing you didn't post the full code. Using Internal will require that you include get/set methods for your variables. If you have a lot of methods in a structure, MSDN recommends you use a class instead.

Hope this helps. =o)

//this is a corrected version of your originally posted code
internal struct pricingData  //  structure to hold the data received on each book received from website
        {
            internal string ISBN;
            internal decimal listPrice;
            internal struct bookInfoByVenue
            {
                internal string venueName;
                internal bool newBook;
                internal decimal price;
            }
        }
 
//use this option if you want to have an array of structures
        internal struct pricingData  //  structure to hold the data received on each book received from website
        {
            internal string ISBN;
            internal decimal listPrice;
            internal bookInfoByVenue[] myBookVen;
        }
        internal struct bookInfoByVenue
        {
            internal string venueName;
            internal bool newBook;
            internal decimal price;
        }

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trendiun:  what's "a lot"?  I would need one get/set for each variable, right? (I am going to use the array of structures)

trenduin:  how do I instantiate the inner array (myBookVen)?  I tried to run it, but it's null...

ororiole:  I'm going to leave it internal so I don't have to do the get/set thingie... pain in the tokus and I would rather just do an assignment...

trenduin:  how do I instantiate the inner array (myBookVen)?  I tried to run it, but it's null...

ororiole:  I'm going to leave it internal so I don't have to do the get/set thingie... pain in the tokus and I would rather just do an assignment...

Thanks... now get another 500 points by figuring out how to instantiate the inner structure array!

To instantiate the array you will need to add some get, set methods along with some other methods to add and remove items from the array.

Ok here's what I did, seems to work fine. The structure information was put in a separate class.

//code for the structure setup
    internal struct pricingData  //  structure to hold the data received on each book received from website
    {
        internal string ISBN;
        internal decimal listPrice;
        internal struct bookInfoByVenue
        {
            internal string venueName;
            internal bool newBook;
            internal decimal price;
        }
        internal bookInfoByVenue[] myVenue;
    }
 
 
//this was in a form
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            pricingData mydata = new pricingData();
            mydata.myVenue = new pricingData.bookInfoByVenue[10];
        }

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