Using the May CTP of VS 2005 I read an article "How to: Marshal Unicode
Strings using C++ Interop".  That article talks about the need to pin the
delegate prior to marshaling it out to native code as a function pointer.
But then in the 2nd example it proceeds to NOT pin it and to ...

I am working with the dotnet debugger API on windows XP, and when I
finish my debugging session using my own debugger, I have uncleaned
handles. My debugger is still alive and ready for a new debug run.
For instance \BaseNamedObjects\CorDBIPCLSEventReadName_2776

Is there a means via Reflection to recreate the original C# source of an
Attribute? I'm familiar with the process of discovering the public fields,
properties and their values, but I'm a bit lost as to how one would know
which of these values map to parameters in the constructor. ...

I want to add "number of processors" to my license control system.  I know I
can use Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable() to check for the environment
variable NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS, but I do not know how easy this might be to
fake.  Would I be better off using a Win32 sdk call to ...

I am creating an application that is quite complex. There will be several
dozen objects, most of which have delegates defined. At runtime, there will
be several hundred instances of some objects and many dozens of instances of
other objects (e.g. 100+ ClassA's, 10+ ClassB's and 50+ ...

Howdy
I'm having difficulty throwing any kind of exception from within
secondary domain, and then catching it back in the primary domain
(I'm writing a managed C++ assembly, Windows XP, Visual Studio .NE

       I am facing a problem while decrypting a stream object using
.NET cryptographic classes.Below i have pasted the code i used to
encrypt and decrypt a stream object.The encryption seems to work fine,
but the decryptiion fails with an error "Bad data".I am really not

Is it posssible to get something out of the GAC to another folder?
Let's say you put an assembly into the GAC but you deleted the source - by
accident no less -.
Any ideas?

I am writing a chat application
I have developed the chat server in which i am creating objects that represents the communicating parties and those will stay in memory till there is communication between them
when they logout i need to destroy the object from the memory
Because the ...

Has anyone dealt with putting static implementations in interfaces ? you
"can" do it (I am sure in IL) ... I'm wonderring if vb.net and c# play nice
when you do it ...

I have noticed that the time resolution of System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Thread.Sleep() varies significantly between systems of seemingly similar class.
For example on my HP Centrino 1.6GHz laptop, I see a resolution of 10ms for the event from System.Timers.Timer and a ...

I have a C# Windows Form project that I want to validate some incoming data.  In the past I have embedded the convert.#### to what ever numeric form I needed in a try catch statement.  Once again I need to do the same thing and have been searching MSDN for a way.  It might be ...

Please excuse the cross-post - I'm pretty sure I've had interest in the
article on all the groups this is posted to.
I've finally managed to finish my article on multi-threading - at least
for the moment. I'd be *very* grateful if people with any interest in

Is there anyway to locate an assembly from a path that is not relative to
the current path without using the GAC?
For instance.  I have a .net application in C:\DirA\DirB that needs to use
an assembly class in C:\DirC.  Is there a way to have the exe find the

I am currently at the beginning of a new project and I would like to start
with something out of the box. As we started our Web project we used IBuySpy
Portal
and it worked fine because we did not waste our time on authentification,