OK. Here's my current assignment -- I need to write a formula parser
which is *fast*, as the formulas will need to be interpreted (acting
on new variables each pass) roughly a few zillion times during
operation. The formulas must be able to include some custom-designed

I can't seem to find the .doc files (e.g. Unmanaged Metadata, Hosting I/Fs,
Profiling, etc) in this distribution.  I did notice that the unmanaged API's
are
"somewhat" documented in the MSDN online documentation, but not complete. It

Since installing .NET 2.0 Beta 2 on my MCE 2004 machine, I have been unable
to run Media Center and have been receiving the following errors in the
eventlog.
Event Type clr20r3, P1 ehrec.exe P2 5.1.2600.2180, P3 41107d79, P4 ehcir, P5

Hi. I'd like to know if there is any overhead in using static variables. I
like to use them because the code is cleanner than when I'm using objects.
But I don't know what are the negative aspects of doing that. I don't have a
lot of static variables in my classes, but I have a ...

I've just started developing my first .net-program, so forgive me, if this
may be a really simple question. Is there a way to produce a sound for a
given time and a given frequency?
I searched the documentation, but could not find anything. The search for

I couldn't find a more appropriate NG so I thought I'd post my question
here.
Lets say I have a Windows Service that has some object instances I want to
use in my application process.  How would I go about requesting an object

ECMA states in Section 1.8.1.4 (Partition III) on Class and Object
Initialization Rules:
"An object constructor shall not return unless a constructor for the base
class or a different construct for the object's class has been called on the

I have a thread safety question.  Say I have the following:
class Class1
{
//instance constructor, member, and method

Traditional C++ Windows threading was easy - the HANDLES could be saved when creating the threads so you could kill them or WaitForSingle/Multiple Object to know when one dies, etc.
In .NET, I'm torn between battling the ThreadPool class or creating my own - but I'm stuck on some ...

I'd like to know if an assembly exists in the GAC or directory, and therefore can be loaded if required.
The only thing I know about the assembly is it's fullname like the AssemblyName.FullName property.
I found out I could try to load the assembly with Assembly.Load() and catch ...

Hi there guys,
Here is the code snippet which in which i am trying to read a file and
taking two cases in first one i promote the object to Gen1 so that it
will be saved from frequent Gen0 Collections and dont have to read file

hiya,
I have winforms app that contains  buttons.
Any time that I click on any of the  buttons, I get an error:
<error>

I'm running ClrProfiler for the first time to profile my web app, and it
keeps getting stuck at this msg box: "Waiting for Asp.net to start common
language runtime - this is the time to load your test page." even after I
launched my app and aspnet_wp.exe is running.

   I need to build a setup package. After software is installed, I need to
create a web address shortcut on desktop. Is there a way?
   Thanks!

I am attaching a snippet of code here which tries to explain that if u
have a class which contains both Unamanged resources and allocates a
lot of memeory and have a finalize method, then u should divides it
into two classes , one contains the memory part and other manages the