Regarding : code access security
when an assembly is loaded by the runtime does the runtime check the
evidence of the assembly. Then depending on the evidence does it assign the
assembly to a codeGroup. And finally, depending on the permission sets

if there is a function in a win32 dll, it is definition is
int add(int a, int b);
how to define that function pointer in C#?
thank you very much!

I wrote a console application which is called from a SQL Server job. The
application utilizes a COM object, to pump data from a legacy (no very old
however) application to SQL server. The application works fine, but once in
a while it fails with the following message written to the ...

Can someone explain or point me in the right direction on how the CLR knows
which assembly is correct.  What are the steps of locating the assembly and
verifying that the assembly is the correct one.

I have seen that System.Double has some arithmetic errors when making some
operation like this:
       Dim x As System.Double
       For x = 0.01 To 0.5 Step 0.01

There are many files deleted from the project but still existing in my local
drive and it caused me problems when I do a find in file operations, because
find results would contain these dead files as well.  Is there a way to show
them in the Solution Explorer window so I can delete ...

when I call SetLocalSymInfo in my code within a global function, it throw
System.NullReferenceException. why?
by the way, what is the mean of startOffset and endOffset, is it offset from
file begin in charactor, or from the method's begin.

does anybody happens to know, why there is a Variant in the BCL all right,
but it is declared only internal? It almost seems, that "they" planed to
have it in the bcl, but decided later to throw it out?
Thanks

hi paul,
i didn't want to have to configure security policy on every client
machine to allow the COM component to work. i was also getting "drag n
drop registration failed" error messages with some components, and

Hello all. I don't know if this is the right newsgroup to post this message,
so sorry for any cross-posting.
I have a class inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.TextBox which contraints
user input to only numeric digits. It works well until user paste some text

Hey All,
been getting alot of CLR exceptions and out of memory exceptions on certain
machines. We have an old-school programmer on the team who still just can't
get OOP and as a result we have some LARGE code files and routines. The .net

  Why doesn't the following code throw a
SynchronizationLockException? MSDN
says "SynchronizationLockException is thrown if the
current thread does not own the lock for the specified

Hi,
Please disregard my last post. I found the meaning of oldversion and
newversion in the docs.
this post is long-ish but its quite a fundamental issue that i'm

Hi, All
What's is the best .net profiler for Debug an application. I have to buy one
but I don't know which one!!
I tried some of them like Borland and AQTime.

i've posted this with no response on a few other lists this week, and
would be extra grateful of any help..
I know .NET is supposed to solve dll hell, but I'm having trouble
getting my