I'm interested to know if having a few threads with the RealTime
priority can somehow "disable" the GC. I know these are not officilay
supported.
Thanks.

Something I can't quite get out of the docs, is what the 'normal' way is to
implement a service's main body.
My service collects data from network-attached devices at regular
intervals, so it's basically an endless loop with a Thread.Sleep() for

does anyone know why the CLR bytecode verifier require that a
tail.
call
instruction shall be immediately followed by a "ret" instruction?

I am often using XML serialization to deserialize type values from XML
files. Recently I came across the exception thrown by Framework when I try
to cast serialized class from object to a type. The following happens:
1. I read type using XmlSerializer into a generic "object" ...

"Threads that are waiting for ownership of a mutex are placed in a first in, first out (FIFO) queue.
Therefore, the first thread to wait on the mutex will be the first to receive ownership of the mutex,
regardless of thread priority. However, kernel-mode APCs and events that ...

It seems sometime ago I heard you could compile a .net exe or assembly into a
native win32 exe or dll, is this possible?

I've got a class that uses a Net.Sockets.TcpClient in VB.Net 2003, approx.
like below (I snipped all code that isn't related to the problem).
For some reason, only the first instance of this class works.  Other
instances that are created later can connect and send data, but they ...

i want to dynamically load .dll files and then get value of a satic property. i am doing this but getting an error:
Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFrom(dllPath);
               Type type = asm.GetType();
               PropertyInfo propertyInfo = type.GetProperty("info");

I used to create services in a 'self-installing' way: a single executable
that serves both as the service executable and as configuration/install
program.
Depending on a command line option they start either the service itself

I have an application written in .NET that reads in data as doubles.  For
various reasons, I have a need to know if a given double that I'm reading in
is the same as any others that I've seen before.  I am currently using a
hashtable to do this, using the double as the key.  It ...