I am diagnosing a strange problem in .NET service (written in C#, framework
1.1 with sp1 installed - 1.1.4322.2032). Service is multhithreaded (heavily)
and takes huge load (in CPU time, memory consumption and IO load). Service
uses remoting to expose some interfaces and makes a lot ...

How do we schedule a job?Is there any alternative other than creating a
windows service?
Are there any job schedulers in .net? Any freeware?
Regs

I have a COM interface which has the following method:
HRESULT Item(
 [in] DWORD dwIndex,
 [in] DWORD dwWhichName,

We have a product written in C# that we are migrating to Visual Studio 2005
(beta 2) and .NET 2.0. Everything builds fine, but during runtime we are
hitting a new exception. When it is deserializing a some classes from disk
that were serialized with the .NET 1.1 version, we are ...

  I have developed a .Net application in C#, use Visual Studio 2003 (.Net
framework 1.1).
I am testing that it installs and runs OK on Windows XP (which is what it was
developed under) running under Virtual PC.

In a previous post I discussed the most suitable approach for
multi-threading in
a provided scenario and was provided very usefull feedback (thanks Stefan
Simek, Jon Skeet and John Conwell).

I have written an application to process a file full of XML. For each "main
element" in the xml file, the application parses it and writes the resulting
object to an Oracle database. Here is the problem.
In an XML file with 20000 objects, running as a service, the silly thing

This problem occurs after system has been fully initialized and main form is
displayed. Calling 'Trim' method during initialization causes no problem.
I tried to avoid using this method but some framework classes use it as
well. For example 'DataView.Sort' property uses it ...

It seems that x.CompareTo(y) returns -1, 0, or 1 when x and y are int, long,
uint, float, double, string, or DateTime types, depending on whether x is
less than, equal to, or greater than y. But when x and y are sbyte, short,
byte, or ushort types, the return value is y-x ...

Simple question :- On a web server I sometimes see the error Item has
already been added. Key in dictionary: "MethodName" Key being added:
"MethodName" I'm using CallContext to store information. Is there a
possibility that a two (or more) logical threads are sharing the same

In one of my classes I have a method, lets call it Fetch, which will collect
data
from various sources and return the combined result. Each of  the sources
can

What I want to know is; do all shell executed .NET app run in the same
process? For that matter do all runtime-hosts run all of their app-domains
in the same process?
In the case of a shell executed application here's my understanding: Double

Can anyone tell me how I can run vb.net or C# code from a text document?
I want to have a smart client (compiled) and I want that smart client to
write to a text file and execute the code from that file.
I’ve seen an example of this somewhere; I think you have to bring in a

which is more efficient: casting or using the convert class? please give
reasons.
tia

I have the following instruction in C++.NET :
  x = log10(n);
  int y = (int)(x * h);
where x, h, n are of type double, and x receives the value NaN